Other Useful Oil and Gas Sites - Gary S. Swindell, Petroleum Engineering

Arkansas Production Data - awkward JDesignerPro system - requires multiple searches to put a single well together. Some searches by full API but mostly you'll need Permit No. first.

Arkansas document image system - under development but good data. Watch for multiple page documents.

California Production data

Colorado Production data - select DATABASE on left side - then Production

Kansas Production data - select Lease Production in center panel, then look up by API

Louisiana DNR on line production and well information - click on "Data Access => Lite" in the upper left corner. I don't see that "Data Access - New" is better, and seems to have less information.

Louisiana well log TIF files - Supposedly requires a 20 meg "IDM" file viewer downoad - but scroll right and you'll see a .tif download link.

Minerals Management Service well data - good luck. Also field reserves data or might be better production and lease data here

Mississippi on line production and well information - recently improved - some also on DEQ Geology Dept - see geological survey lists

Mississippi scout ticket and log images - recently much improved

Montana Production data - new online system is better but not great. Has a map server

Nebraska well and production data

New Mexico Production Data (PTTC)

New Mexico Well Data

New York Oil and Gas Data

North Dakota well data - not much there unless you subscribe to premium or basic services

North Dakota interactive map - from Resource App

Ohio Oil & Gas Database - now with a mapping application with access to scout tickets

Oklahoma Geological Survey - data sources

Oklahoma Corporation Commission - OLD SYSTEM BEFORE 6/2010 - production data, sometimes flawed -Click on Oil & Gas Database and wait for Java app to load.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission - NEW SYSTEM AFTER 6/2010 - shows some promise as improved. It is not obvious, but use the magnifying glass to display and expand results.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission - imaging data - well logs

Oklahoma Tax Commission Gross Production System - does not seem to be able to look up production, just file forms. Free, but you will have to register.

Texas Railroad Commission - Railroad Commission

Texas RRC Online Research central site

Texas TRAIL system records - search all agencies - you can sometimes turn up oil and gas field documents here (TRAIL system)

Texas Production data - by well, lease, county and field - best to have RRC number and RRC district for well data

Texas Proration Schedules - by field, - by operator

Texas Field Rules (rules can also be found on the proration schedules)

Texas Drilling Permit system

Texas RRC Well mapping system - Log images and other documents are sometimes available - select "Identify" on the map tools then click on the well to get a list of images.

Texas well log image system - at the end of this URL/Web address, EDIT AND REPLACE the 8 digit County-Well API number, currently set to 19730470 with the one you want

Texas RRC Document images - Choose "Search well records" - very complete for some districts. For API searches, enter 3+5 digit API number without the state - ie County and 5 digit API number.

Texas Operators Directory (RRC)

Texas production data for "Pending" wells - ie not assigned a RRC number yet - you must have permit number or possibly the 8 digit API number

Texas water injection well counts - by district and field

Texas injection volumes - water, CO2, gas, etc - H-10 database - data since 2010. Be patient as the system sometimes runs slow.

Utah Production data, logs and whole well files in pdf - superb data, very accessible - the best State site I've seen

West Virginia - well data and logs

Wyoming Production data (WOGCC) and logs, maps, documents. Very comprehensive but becoming more difficult to use - some data requires MS Internet Explorer (IE)

free databases

Texas Formation Water Chloride Database - from the Texas Water Development Board publications.

US Coalbed Methane Content Database - from the U.S. Bureau of Mines data.

Canadian Environmental Technology Centre - crude oil database

Catalog of Petroleum Data - Univ. of South Carolina (ESRI) - apparently a Major Oil Field database but no access?

Commercial Sources of Data

TGS (formerly A2D Technologies)_ - well log provider

MJ Systems - digital well log provider

Drilling Info - excellent online source of well and production data

Geomap - executive reference and custom regional petroleum mapping, raster logs, library services

IHS Energy (Petroleum Information / Dwights)

Records Research - Texas RRC research and documents - excellent service

Banks Information Solutions - Texas Railroad Commission research

Oil-Law Records - Oklahoma Commission and New Mexico research

Seismic Exchange - marketing seismic data

Platts.com - key price assessments, indices, as well as our newsletters, maps and other offerings

Convert any economics program data format to Aries MDB - a service of Scientific Computer Applications

WLDS (Well Log Data Sourcing) - well log digitizing.

Geological Surveys

Alabama Geological Survey

Arkansas Geological Commission

Australia Geological Survey

Australia Geoscience Portal

British Geological Survey

Kansas Geological Survey

Colorado Geological Survey

Illinois Geological Survey

Louisiana Geological Survey

Mississippi DEQ - Geology Section - there are searchable databases and images on just energy -click here

Missouri Geological Survey

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology

Nebraska Geological Survey

New Mexico Geological Survey

New Zealand Geological Sciences

North Dakota Geological Survey

Ohio Geological Survey

Oklahoma Geological Survey

Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Poland Geological Survey

Texas Bureau of Economic Geology

West Texas Geological Society

West Virginia Geological Survey

Wyoming Geological Survey

Map Data

EIA maps - excellent summary maps of shale and other U.S. drilling plays

World Atlas.com - great source of statistics

The National Map

Digital Atlas of Texas Counties - from Texas Tech University

Texas Natural Resources Information System - download GIS data

Texas General Land Office Interactive Land/Lease Mapping System

Minerals Management Service Offshore map data

Montana map server

North Dakota map server

North Dakota interactive map - from Resource App

Texas RRC Well mapping system - Log images and other documents are sometimes available - select "Identify" on the map tools then click on the well to get a list of images.

Terraserver - digital Satellite Photographs - and USGS topos

USGS Aerial Photos on terraserver.microsoft.com

Geomap - executive reference and custom regional petroleum mapping

East View Cartigraphic data worldwide

Tobin Data Graphics

Structure Maps.com - Geological Consulting Services Inc - recently acquired by IHS

ResourceApp - develops custom-built real-time oilfield data visualization systems

Petroleum Geographics Corp Mapping - oil and gas well base, lease and culture data. Also mapping software.

IHS Energy Maps - custom maps in the U.S. and world

Earthmaps.com

GMT - an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets

GRASS - an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization

Ventyx - Oil and gas well and pipeline general maps

Petroleum Software

Petroleum Software - Public / Government

Geological Software

Kansas Geological Survey software - Gemini simulator

Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS)

U.S. Department of Energy - Boast simulator and others

New Mexico GO-TECH - free decline curve analysis software and Data Drawing Module for Excel : Curve Plotting Software

Petroleum Software - Drilling / Well Planning / Risk / Casing

Pegasus Vertex software - torque, hydraulics, mud, cementing simulator, surge pressure, centralizers, undrbalanced, casing wear, drilling toolbox

Drilling Software - drilling, casing and production programs

WellSight Systems logging programs for geologists, mud loggers and drilling engineers.

Osprey Risk - Rapid, iterative well planning software for critical risk and cost assessment Schlumberger

TracPlanner Xpress™ for Discovery - modeling directional well profiles from Halliburton

Drillbench - Advanced drilling engineering and operation (SPT Group)

Well Service Manager™ (WSM) Planning, Scheduling, and Evaluation Software

SafeWells from Expro - a web based database solution for well integrity.

Paradigm Geolog - petrophysical analysis, well data management, geological interpretation, geosteeering.

Baker Hughes SFIB™: determines in-situ stress and evaluates wellbore stability

Baker Hughes WellCheck™: optimizes casing seat depths and defines safe mud windows

Baker Hughes PressCheck™: defines mud window by estimating pore pressure and fracture gradient

Baker Hughes Imager™: improves wellbore image analysis

BakerCaliper™: rapidly determines orientation and extent of wellbore breakouts

Baker Hughes MohrFracs™: predicts optimum drilling trajectories in fractured reservoirs.

Schlumberger WellEye 3D borehole data viewer lets you visualize and analyze high-resolution images from wireline and LWD imaging tools

Petroleum Software - Log Analysis / Petrophysics

Interactive Petrophysics log analysis software from Schlumberger

LogEdit™ Petrophysical Interpretation Software from Halliburton

PRIZM™ Petrophysical Log Analysis Software

PetroWorks® Asset Petrophysical Software from Halliburton

Paradigm Geolog - petrophysical analysis, well data management, geological interpretation, geosteeering.

StratWorks 3D Geologic Software log interpretation

smartSECTION® Well Log Correlation Software

LogSleuth is a computer program that manages, displays, prints and exports Raster Image Well Logs purchased from MJ Systems.

Schlumberger Freeware Utilities including PDS log viewer- and an excellent LAS and TIF log viewer (Log Toolbox, DataView, BlueView - reads LAS and TIF, converts from DLIS to LAS)

Schlumberger WellEye 3D borehole data viewer lets you visualize and analyze high-resolution images from wireline and LWD imaging tools

Halliburton log viewer - an Internet Explorer add-on for CGM and TIF files - not great. Other calculators here also.

Kappa Emeraude - Production Log Interpretation software

CoreLog from Plano Research - log and core analysis - petrophysical software

Baker Hughes MetaWin™ THEIR LINK DOES NOT WORK??.- annotate, and print Baker Hughes META files and industry CGM files. Supported exports include PDF, BMP, JPEG, CGM, PNG, and TIFF formats.

IrfanView - view log tif files

Brava - Free log .TIF viewer recommended by DrillingInfo

Baker Hughes SFIB™: determines in-situ stress and evaluates wellbore stability

Well log digitization services from Well Log Ware

Petroleum Software - PVT

Pore Pressure Analysis tools

Petrophase from Plano Research - PVT phase package

Zulcon - For Apple iPad and iPhone - apps for PVT, Inflow performance, Oil in-place, ESP's, and recip pumps

Petroleum Software - Pressure Transient Analysis

Transients from Plano Research - Transient pressure analysis

Halliburton - PTA software for pressure transient analysis

PT 4 for Windows - full-featured system for evaluating pressure transient well tests

TRANS II - Pressure Transient Analysis Software

Pressure transient Analysis - from Valenti Engineering

Saphir - pressure transient analysis from Kappa

Pan System - a leading pressure transient analysis package

FastWelltest - Pressure transient analysis from Fekete

Petroleum Software - Reservoir Engineering / Production

ResBal from Plano Research - material balance analysis

Mat Bal - Reservoir analysis and production forecasting

PEOffice from OPT - oil and gas reservoir management, production analysis, simulation model, reservoir performance analysis, production problems, optimized design of production parameters and analysis of oil/gas gathering and transportation system.

FastCBM - Coalbed methane reservoir analysis from Fekete

FastEvolution - Tight sand and shale gas development planning from Fekete

FastRTA - Production decline analysis from Fekete

DynaLift™ - Gas Lift Simulation Software

WatOpt from Plano Research - Waterflood management and optimization

DMS™ Reservoir Uncertainty and Optimization Software from Halliburton

IPOS - Optimize your production plan and maximize NPV (SPT Group)

ReO - Production Simulation and Optimization Software - decline curve analysis

Production Monitoring and Surveillance from Schlumberger

Verge™ Engineering Surveillance Software, decline curve analysis and some mapping capability

WellFlo Petroleum Engineering Software

WellSavvy Artificial Lift Real-Time Diagnostic Software

i-DO Intelligent Daily Operations Software

Kappa Emeraude - Production Log Interpretation software

Zulcon - For Apple iPad and iPhone - apps for PVT, Inflow performance, Oil in-place, ESP's, and recip pumps

GENNET-M - calculates flow rates, pressures, temp, velocity in a multi-phase pipeline network

Baker Hughes ResBalance - oil and gas material balance using Havlena or Odeh plots and PVT data

Baker Hughes ResSurveil - optimize production; manage, view data efficiently; evaluates well, pattern, or field performance

Baker Hughes ResWorks - evaluate well-performance with the complete evaluation toolkit

Petroleum Software - Reserve Evaluation and Economics

New Mexico GO-TECH - free decline curve analysis software and Data Drawing Module for Excel : Curve Plotting Software

Merak Petroleum Economics, Risk & Reserves from Schlumberger

Petec 21 economic software

IHS Energy Powertools - Powertools economic and reserve evaluation software

OGRE Systems - very capable and flexible petroleum economic evaluation software - now available for web based usage.

P2 Energy Solutions - decline curve analysis, economic analysis, gas material balance and reserve management

Aries economic reserve analysis software from Haliburton / Geographix

TRC Consultants - PHDWin economics program

MICA decline curve and economics program with access to free state data

FastRTA - Production decline analysis from Fekete

Convert any economics program data format to Aries MDB - a service of Scientific Computer Applications

Petroleum Software - Reservoir Simulation

Eclipse Simulator from Schlumberger - now with new EOR modeling

Exodus Reservoir Simulator for Windows with CBM modeling

SimON from Optimization Petroleum Technologies (OPT) - is a finite difference, three-phase black oil reservoir simulator used to simulate and forecast production performance from black oil reservoirs with complex geological structures.

Nexus Reservoir Simulation from Halliburton

Sensor reservoir simulator

FlowSim Studio from Plano Research - IOR/EOR 3D compositional simulator applicaton for reservoir management

FlowStream Studio from Plano Research - IOR/EOR streamline simulator applicaton for reservoir management

Great and WFLOOD - Gas reservoir simulator and waterflood simulator

S3D streamline simulator - Dr. Akhil Datta-Guta Texas A&M - pretty good - an apparently updated version comes with his book Streamline Simulation (SPE bookstore)

OLGA - simulator for engineering the flow of oil, water and gas in wells, pipelines and receiving facilities. (SPT Group) Basically vertical flow simulator

MEPO - Fast History Matching & Uncertainty Assessment (SPT Group)

Tempest black oil and compositional simulator from Roxar

PMTx 2.0 multilayer tight gas and coalbed methane simulator from Phoenix Software

PanMesh™ - Numerical simulation Analysis Software from Weatherford - but don't expect them to actually answer your inquiries.

Baker Hughes JewelSuite - geological and simulation software, 3D gridding, seismic, geological, flow simulation, and geomechanical data.

Baker Hughes ResAssist - eliminates complex simulation tasks when using the 3D SL simulator; real-time 3D visualization;

Kansas Geological Survey software - Gemini simulator

U.S. Department of Energy - Boast reservoir simulator

Petroleum Software - Geological Mapping

GeoGraphix®

Petrel -Powerful seismic and geological mapping from Schlumberger

Z-MAP Plus™ Petroleum Mapping Software from Halliburton

GeoProbe -3D multi-volume interpretation and visualization solution from Halliburton

Petrosys - Geological mapping software package

Paradigm Geolog - petrophysical analysis, well data management, geological interpretation, geosteeering.

The Logic Group - Planimeter and Volumetric Software for the Oil Industry

Petroleum Geographics Corp - along with map data, they market mapping software - Arc products, Surfer, Didger, Global Mapper

Tobin GIS Studio - GIS mapping software

geoSCOUT from geoLOGIC - geologic mapping, cross-sections, data handling and analysis.

Slicer Dicer from Pixotec - Volumetric Data Visualization software for seismic and geological models

Baker Hughes JewelSuite - geological and simulation software, 3D gridding, seismic, geological, flow simulation, and geomechanical data.

Petroleum Software - Geophysics / Seismic

QuickSyn - Quick and easy generation of synthetic seismograms

SEGY viewer to view segy seismic data

SEIS Vu segy viewer

Sigma from Plano Research - seismic interpretation software

Seismic Micro - Kingdom seismic and geological mapping software

Madagascar is an open source software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments for researchers working with digital image and data processing

Slicer Dicer from Pixotec - Volumetric Data Visualization software for seismic and geological models

Petroleum Software - Miscellaneous

From SPE - E&P Toolbox - rentable online access to software on an as-needed basis.

Sitelark - Excel based gas reservoir toolkit, waterflood simulation, price modelling.

eProduction Solutions -from Weatherford - a number of software packages - but don't expect them to actually answer your inquiry

P2 Energy Solutions - production and land management software

Schlumberger iHandbook - their engineering handbook, sections on well bore, pipe, tubing, casing, tanks, volume, fracturing, cement, and acid/oil/brines.

Haliburton / Geographix software

Schlumberger software

Core Labs RIB™ - Reservoir Information Browser is a knowledge management system, accessed on any computer using a standard web browser.

Petris Technology - a variety of software on a service basis

PetEng Online calculators - lots of calculators here - now all free

Gulf Publishing software guide listing of software

Gulf Publishing upstream software packages

Rockware - a large and broad catalog of geological, engineering, logging and seismic software

GMT - an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets

GRASS - an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization

Geographix - software integrating geological mapping and geophysical analysis

Galaxy from Plano Research - integrated reservoir management, cross-sections and mapping

IDEAS International Oil & Gas Venture Management System from Wellpoint - finance and administration solution for international exploration, development and production operations.

BOLO from Wellpoint – Accounting, Land and Production for US companies

Energy Financial Management (EFM) from Wellpoint - worldwide financial management and reporting requirements, AFE tracking, cost center controls, division of interest, joint venture management, and revenue distribution.

Petroleum Engineering Universities

The University of Oklahoma Petroleum Engineering

University of Texas Petroleum

Heriot-Watt University Petroleum Engineering

Texas Tech University Petroleum Engineering

Texas A&M University Petroleum Engineering

Imperial College Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education (PEICE) - world's largest selection of petroleum industry courses and seminars

SPE listing of Petroleum Engineering Schools

Publications and Periodicals

Oil & Gas Journal

Journal of Petroleum Technology - SPE

Gulf Publishing - good list of other links

PetroMin Magazine - Asia's oil & gas magazine

National-Oilwell Home Page

Records Research - Texas RRC research and documents - excellent service

IBM's E&P Connection

Whipstock.com - comprehensive source of directional and horizontal drilling services, tools, companies, etc

Shree Boilers & SS Trading Company - seismic processing, advance processing and imaging, interpretation, reservoir modeling, petrophysical, seismic vectorizing, and well log and map digitizing

Consulting Companies

William M. Cobb & Associates - petroleum consultants - Dallas

Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Fort Worth

DeGolyer and MacNaughton - Dallas, Houston, Moscow, Calgary

Collarini Engineering, Inc.

Forest A. Garb & Associates - Dallas

Netherland, Sewell & Associates - Dallas, Houston

Petroskills - worldwide petroleum industry training alliance

Sproule Associates

Coalbed Methane

Coalbed Methane data - links to international CBM information

US Coalbed Methane Content Database