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Global GIS : 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment - 1 mile cell data
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Publication Date
- 19960326
- Title
- Global GIS : 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment - 1 mile cell data
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Collection Title
- Global GIS : global coverage
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Denver, Colo.
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey, Central Region Energy Team
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-glb-us-oil
- Abstract
- The USGS Central Region Energy Team assessed the oil and gas resources of the United States. Cell maps for each oil and gas production area were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in a play. Each cell represents a one-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from the Petroleum Information Well History Control System (WHCS), which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary WHCS data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data used to generate the cells are from WHCS and are current as of December, 1990. This version of the dataset was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database (2003). The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.
- Purpose
- The purpose of the cell map is to display the exploration maturity, type of production, and distribution of production in one-mile cells for each of the oil and gas plays defined in the 1995 U.S. National Oil and Gas Assessment. This layer is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. This layer will provide a basemap for layers related to socio-economic and political anaylsis, statistical enumeration and analysis, or to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. More advanced user applications may focus on demographics, urban and rural land use planning and related areas including defining boundaries, managing assets and facilities, integrating attribute databases with geographic features, spatial analysis, and presentation output.
- Supplemental Information
- Portions of this metadata are taken directly from the American Geological Institute, Global GIS, Web pages: http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/globalgis/
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 19960326
- Bounding Box
- West
- -124.858365
- East
- -0.007002
- North
- 48.994835
- South
- 0.004704
- Theme Keyword
- Oils wells
- Gas wells
- Petroleum reserves
- Natural gas reserves
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- ISO Topic Category
- geoscientificInformation
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None.
- Use Restrictions
- None.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- As needed
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- U.S. Geological Survey, Central Region Energy Team
- Delivery Point
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Delivery Point
- P.O. Box 25046 MS 939
- City
- Denver
- State
- CO
- Postal Code
- 80225-0046
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- (303) 236-3611
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- dferdere@usgs.gov
- Native Data Set Environment
- Arc/Info
- Collection
- Originator
- American Geological Institute
- Originator
- Geological Survey (U.S)
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Originator
- Hearn, Paul P.
- Publication Date
- 2003
- Title
- Global GIS : global coverage
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- U.S. Geological Survey digital data series
- Issue Identification
- DDS-62A-H
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- [Alexandria, VA]
- Publisher
- American Geological Institute
- Other Citation Details
- 1 DVD-ROM; Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey; Published by the American Geological Institute; by P. Hearn ... [et al.].
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- The accuracy of the cells, as created by the FORTRAN program of D.H. Root and R.F. Mast, depends on the accuracy of the oil and gas well information in the version of the Petroleum Information System (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS) database. For the national scale of the 1995 Oil and Gas Assessment, the assumption was made that the data in WHCS were of sufficient accuracy for such a national-scale analysis.
- Logical Consistency Report
- A sampling of cell locations and cell attributes were visually compared to a hard-copy plot of wells to identify errors.
- Completeness Report
- The cells were defined using the well data in the Petroleum Information System (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS) database. The WHCS database contains over two million wells for the U.S., which, although not a complete tabulation of all U.S. wells, is the most complete well database available for the United States.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- A visual comparison was made using a sampling of cell locations and cell attributes with well locations and attributes. In particular, the values of latitude and longitude for the wells in WHCS were assumed to be accurate.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Originator
- Gautier, Donald L.
- Publication Date
- 19960326
- Title
- 1995 national assessment of United States oil and gas resources : results, methodology, and supporting data
- Edition
- Release 2
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- map
- Series Information
- Series Name
- U.S. Geological Survey digital data series
- Issue Identification
- DDS-30
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- [Denver, CO]
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Other Citation Details
- edited by Donald L. Gautier ... [et al.].
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19960326
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- spatial and attribute information
- Source
- Originator
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Originator
- Beeman, William R.
- Originator
- Obuch, Raymond C.
- Originator
- Brewton, James D.
- Publication Date
- 19960325
- Title
- Digital map data, text, and graphical images in support of the 1995 national assessment of United States oil and gas resources
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- map
- Series Information
- Series Name
- U.S. Geological Survey digital data series
- Issue Identification
- DDS-35
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- [Denver, Colo.]
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Other Citation Details
- [compiled by William R. Beeman, Raymond C. Obuch, and James D. Brewton].
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19960325
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- spatial and attribute information
- Source
- Originator
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Originator
- Charpentier, Ronald R.
- Publication Date
- 19960325
- Title
- Tabular data, text, and graphical images in support of the 1995 national assessment of United States oil and gas resources
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- map
- Series Information
- Series Name
- U.S. Geological Survey digital data series
- Issue Identification
- DDS-36
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- [Denver, CO]
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Other Citation Details
- compiled by Ronald R. Charpentier ... [et al.].
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19960325
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- Petroleum Information Corporation
- Publication Date
- 19901201
- Title
- Well History Control System
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Houston, Texas
- Publisher
- Petroleum Information Corporation
- Type of Source Media
- digital tape media
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19901201
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- Entity point
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 431301
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000001
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000001
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1927
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Vertical Coordinate System Definition
- Altitude System Definition
- Altitude Datum Name
- Unknown
- Altitude Resolution
- 1.000000
- Altitude Distance Units
- Unknown
- Altitude Encoding Method
- Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- Global GIS US National Oil and Gas Assessment
- Entity Type Definition
- Point attribute table
- Entity Type Definition Source
- None
- Attributes
- IC
- Exploration Level Code Equivalent WHCS Initial Class. If there are several wells in a cell, the cell is assigned the lowest initial class value within the cell area.
- 1
- Outpost or extension test
- 2
- Shallower pool test
- 3
- Deeper pool test
- 4
- New pool wildcat
- 5
- New pool wildcat
- 6
- Development well
- 7, 8, and 9
- Stratigraphic test, core hole, core test or injection well
- 0
- Unclassified or service well
- G
- Geothermal well
- Definition Source
- USGS
- SYMB
- Production Status Code
- 1
- Cell contains at least one productive oil well, but no productive gas wells
- 2
- Cell contains at least one productive gas well, but no productive oil wells
- 3
- Cell contains at least one productive oil well and at least one productive gas well or one well producing both oil and gas
- 4
- Cell contains no producing wells
- Definition Source
- USGS
- CY
- Completion year. Two spaces, integer value. These values are calculated by decade. If more than one well was contained within the cell, the value was assigned from the earliest completed well within the cell (e.g., code 98 means that the earliest well in the cell was completed in the 1980's). A code of 81 (1810) indicates no data. (Two spaces, integer value.)
- Definition Source
- USGS
- PY
- Production Year. Two spaces, integer value. These values are also calculated by decade. If more than one producing well was contained within a cell, the value was assigned from the earliest productive well within the cell, e.g. code 98 means that the earliest production was in the 1980's. A code of 81 (1810) indicates no data. Non-producing cells are coded as 10. (Two spaces, integer value.)
- Definition Source
- USGS
- NOWLS
- Number of wells per cell code. Single integer value.
- 0
- Cell contains no identified wells. Cells filled in from State oil and gas maps have this code.
- 1
- Cell contains 1 well.
- 2
- Cell contains 2 - 4 wells.
- 3
- Cell contains 5 - 8 wells.
- 4
- Cell contains 9 - 16 wells.
- 5
- Cell contains 17 -32 wells.
- 6
- Cell contains 33 - 64 wells.
- 7
- Cell contains 65 - 128 wells.
- 8
- Cell contains 129 - 256 wells.
- 9
- Cell contains more than 256 wells.
- Definition Source
- USGS
- PRWLS
- Number of producing wells per cell code
- 0
- Cell contains no producing wells.
- 1
- Cell contains 1 producing well.
- 2
- Cell contains 2 - 4 producing wells.
- 3
- Cell contains 5 - 8 producing wells.
- 4
- Cell contains 9 - 16 producing wells.
- 5
- Cell contains 17 - 32 producing wells.
- 6
- Cell contains 33 - 64 producing wells.
- 7
- Cell contains 65 - 128 producing wells.
- 8
- Cell contains 129 - 256 producing wells.
- 9
- Cell contains more than 256 producing wells.
- Definition Source
- USGS
- TD
- Total depth code
- 0
- no value
- 1
- 1 - 1,000 feet
- 2
- 1,001 - 2,000 feet
- 3
- 2,001 - 4,000 feet
- 4
- 4,001 - 8,000 feet
- 5
- 8,001 - 12,000 feet
- 6
- 12,001 - 16,000 feet
- 7
- 16,001 - 20,000 feet
- 8
- greater than 20,000 feet
- Definition Source
- USGS
- YEAR
- undefined date field (3 digit integer)
- Definition Source
- none
- MARC.GLB_US_OIL.FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SHAPE
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- http://hgl.harvard.edu/
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20060213
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Position
- Geospatial Resources Cataloger
- Contact Address
- Address
- Harvard University Library
- Address
- Office For Information Systems
- Address
- 1280 Massachusetts Avenue
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 617-495-2417
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 617-496-0440
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
- Hours of Service
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile
