Eastern Ohio well map via Google Earth

Attached map shows well locations and well types for several eastern Ohio counties. The map index allows you to select different counties, townships and well types; you can zoom in and out to change your viewing altitude; you can get well information by positioning you mouse over the well pin; newer wells (after 6/10) are identified with red pins, larger red pins identify likely Utica wells.

 

To view this map you need the latest version Google Earth viewer.  The free viewer can be downloaded at: http://www.google.com/earth  Google limits the number of concurrent data points/well locations - if you open more than three counties at once some data points may disappear.

 

The map shows some interesting patterns.  The high density green pin areas are likely good  areas for Clinton wells... will these be Goldilocks areas for the Utica wells?   Most of the black hole zones are likely due to poor producing wells and most of the current Utica wells are located in these areas...  do the geologist see these areas as good areas or is it simply that they were available for drilling?

 

I’d would be very interested in hearing back what others observe, theorize from the maps or know from experience or hear-say.

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1gy3cnb6vmh0dPermalink Reply by 1gy3cnb6vmh0d on December 2, 2011 at 1:29pm

Admirable effort on the map, BICS, from somebody (me) who makes maps for a living.   What you have made appears to be a map of every well drilled in the map area.   Most of those wells are much shallower than the Utica Shale, i.e., most are Clinton wells.   The ODNR has a $20 MS Access database that one can play with to extract Utica-and-deeper well penetrations.    There are far fewer Utica penetrations than shown on your map.   I attach a map showing all Utica well penetrations ever in Ohio, plus the new Utica horizontal wells, and very importantly, Utica wells which have been permitted in the last 90 days.   These last wells are those which will be drilled next, and give an indication of those areas which are likely to see upticks in leasing, assuming good well results.     We keep an updated map of where the well permit locations are, as well as oil company's leasing positions, to assist landowners.   I have posts on the Xchange forum, if anybody would like more details.     Hope the map is useful.        Geodude

 

 

Geodude 

Permalink Reply by Dan on December 3, 2011 at 2:21am

Geodude, this is very interesting.  While I think that a google maps or google earth maps add-on layer is a great idea, the shortfall with it is that it requires someone to build the layer and then constantly maintain and update it, plus there is always the possibility of error in the transfer.  Lately, I have seen more and more people and businesses offering mapping options either for free or for a subscription.  This all seems redundant to me.  As you say, the database is pubically accessible, so ideally there should be a public-access GIS interface that automatically reflects any changes or new entries in the master database.  The OGS Oil and Gas Locator Map actually does this pretty nicely, but the UI is not as nice as Google Earth IMO. (Two improvements besides the general UI would be to add layers to show property lines and another to show drilling unit boundaries.)

When you say "we keep an updated map", do you work for ODNR in the mapping section?

Where can I find your posts on the Xchange forums?

Being from Harrison County, as I look at your map I see right away that the Buell Well in Archer Township (the only currently-producing horizontal well in the county)  is not shown at all. Why would that be?

1gy3cnb6vmh0dPermalink Reply by 1gy3cnb6vmh0d on December 3, 2011 at 4:12am

Dan, you're very observant, nice catch.   The Buell well was not in the database as a producer yet, only as a permit.     I have fixed that by posting a much more detailed map, showing all Utica well permits within the past 2 years, on the Xchange group, on this site.   I cannot comment much on this forum, but this is one of the things my company does for landowners.   Again, see posts on the Xchange forum.    Thanks for your feedback

 

regards,

Geodude

 

 

1gy3cnb6vmh0dPermalink Reply by 1gy3cnb6vmh0d on December 3, 2011 at 4:50am

Dan, here is a link to the new map:

Recent Utica Shale wells by operator

 

regards,

Geodude

Permalink Reply by BICS on December 17, 2011 at 4:27am

I updated the map data and added two enhancements:

  1) there is now a new section for Utica wells… this section allows you to view just Utica wells, you can still select multiple counties to see all wells (Google Earth response time will slow down if you open all sections ).   

 2) I added well documentation for each well, the documentation usually includes a diagram of the well pad layout, the well permits, drilling logging data and other relevant info.  To access the documentation click the well pin then click the document link at the bottom on the popup window.  The link should download a file (tif or pdf) after a several seconds which you can then open.   

NOTE! In order to download the documentation you need to make the following change to the Google Earth viewer.  1) Launch Google Earth.  2) click ‘Tools’ at the top of the viewer. 3) click ‘Options’  4) click the ‘General’ tab  5) click the box option “show web results in external browser” .

 If you experience problems viewing the maps, upgrade Google Earth viewer to the latest version.  Opening multiple sections is memory intensive, your PC needs at least 1GB RAM to get a good experience.  Navigating the view with multiple sections open is CPU intensive, if you machine is slow you will likely not have a fun experience with multiple sections open.

I appreciate others posting related maps, drawings, images or links they built, obtained or are aware of.  I find the knowledge I can glean from viewing this data from different perspectives well worth the effort … GeoDude thanks for the map.  Also, I viewed your post, but I am in Stark… any thoughts of hosting there?  

Dan, I started researching a method to add theoretical drainage area for the Utica wells, assuming I can code this task it will be in the next version.

 

Permalink Reply by Dan on December 17, 2011 at 10:03am

BICS, that's really good work.  This is all autogenerated by crawling through the ODNR database right?  You just give your script a few parameters and it churns out the map?  That's really nice.

I understand how the theoretical drainage could be somewhat useful, and I understand that it would be something that could be autogenerated with the other data, but I'm afraid that it will be misinterpreted by people who think that it is the unit boundary.  I wish the unit boundaries would be coded into the database, then you could conceivably autogenerate that area with your script.  I really like seeing the actual units, like on the maps that Philip has posted.  But each of those have to be done by hand.   Maybe there is away we can semi-automate it, with some easy capture-and-trace utility to capture it from the plat, and then a way that the map that you autogenerate can be updated over time, adding in the drilling unit plats and keeping that update preserved with the map.  Is that possible?

Permalink Reply by BICS on December 18, 2011 at 5:08am

Dan, the script now pulls data from three sources 1) ODNR Access db 2) ODNR spreadsheet and 3) ODNR online db (ODNR is fragmenting the Utica data to different data stores). I'll consider methods of adding actual drill units to the map. The most likely solution is to get individuals to build a Google map of different drill units like Philip did. I can then code the program to parse this KML data and reassemble into a comprehensive map. But first I am going to work on the theoretical drainage area map…the data is readily available and I need to educate myself on the how.

Permalink Reply by BICS on December 18, 2011 at 5:46am

Yellow are either gas storage or injection wells.   If you click on the well pin it will display information about the well.

Permalink Reply by Tony on December 18, 2011 at 9:55am

Thank you also Phillip....Outstanding job to you also!

Permalink Reply by BICS on December 18, 2011 at 3:11pm

Philip thanks for the great overlays. Having the ability to contrast wells to different overlays definitely give you more dimensions to ponder... I noticed the eastern edge of the oil zone closely follows the heavy concentration of Clinton wells (green pins) seen in the Ohio middle east map view. Were these wells fed by the Utica oil zone below? I was told the oil migrated from other distant areas but now after looking at these views I wonder if this statement was correct. It will be interesting to see some empirical data once they start producing in the oil zone.

Permalink Reply by Philip Brutz on December 26, 2011 at 6:08am

Here is a low res map of gas and oil pipelines from 1989.  You can adjust the opacity in the proprieties.  If anyone can find a higher res, more up to date map please post it.  I am also trying to find maps for coal mines.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Brutz on December 28, 2011 at 9:20am

I mapped out part of the Rockies Express Gas Pipeline.  It was just completed in 2009 and you can see it being built in this Google map.  It was designed to bring gas from the Colorado to Monroe Co OH.  I wonder if they will use it to export gas from OH?

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