Drillinginfo has performed a consolidation of counterpart lease polygons. This consolidation has two main benefits.  First, removing the duplicate polygons should provide a cleaner looking and slightly faster map page. Second, it will now be possible to make accurate acreage calculations. Even with the consolidated polygons, you will still be able to get counterpart lease details when in table view.

Posted: July 28th, 2010 under Announcements by kbarbaro

Comments: none

Hats off to XTO for permitting a 3300′ test in Geneva Co, AL (far SE Alabama) on trend with, ahem, not much that we can see. Could be an eastern extension of shaley facies in the Conecuh embayment, but there’s so little well control and only 3 reasonably close by 2D seismic lines that all we can do is flat out guess. But good luck to them for drilling in a galaxy far, far away… could get interesting….

Posted: July 27th, 2010 under GeoFocus by mnibbelink

Comments: none

After 10 years of service, we would like to know how our product has benefited you. Send us a testimonial and get entered into a drawing for a brand new Apple IPad! Tell us what problems you faced without Drillinginfo, how Drillinginfo was the solution, and how it has benefited your company.

Follow this link to participate.

The drawing will be held August 6th. The winner will be notified the following week and posted to Facebook.

Posted: July 27th, 2010 under Announcements by kbarbaro

Comments: 1

The Texas General Land Office conducted their summer lease sale July 20, 2010 and received a total of $13,162,306.64 for an average of $1,381.51 per acre. See the bid tabulation.

Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Announcements by bblack

Comments: none

Online user forums (a.k.a Message Boards) are a great way for the members of an application, like Drillinginfo, to communicate with each other, find answers to common questions, or to ask questions directly to the Customer Support Department.

With that in mind, we’d like to introduce you to the Drillinginfo Discussion Forums.

Once you’ve logged into Drillinginfo, you can always access the forums by clicking on the Help & Training tab and then clicking the link near the top of the page that reads “Online Support Forum”. Registration is simple and takes only a minute or two.

When you post a question in the support forum our Customer Support Department will be notified immediately. We hope you’ll stop by, register, and start contributing to this new online community for Drillinginfo members.

Once registered, don’t forget to click the “Subscribe Forum” link at the bottom of any forum to get email notifications of new posts.

Posted: July 20th, 2010 under Support by smichener

Comments: 1

We’ve mapped Ohio permits since 1/1/2009, using %shale as a filter in the formation name and filtering out any multiple target formation objectives. Results include permit target formations named Marcellus, Devonian,and Ohio shale. The permits along the southern shore of Lake Erie are Ohio shale permits at shallow depths <3500′. The belt of permits along the W VA border are Devonian/Marcellus shale permits at slightly deeper depth. Can the Marcellus return great ROI at these shallow depths? Stay tuned…..

Posted: July 14th, 2010 under GeoFocus by mnibbelink

Comments: none

We heard ya ! Check out the 2,300 fee leases we just added in Laramie County, Wyoming. Laramie is our newest  LandTrac Lease county and is in the Niobrara Shale play.  Goshen County, Wyoming fee leases to follow.

Posted: July 12th, 2010 under Announcements by bblack

Comments: 2

After extensive work and testing we are pleased to notify our customers that we’ve added lat-long values to approximately 13,000+ existing API #’s based on data we received with our acquisition of HPDI. 8945 of these newly mapped API #’s are producers as shown in the map below; while 5500 are producers which predate the Texas RRC’s first capture of production data (1970).

The mapping of these API #’s now locate nearly 326,000,000 BO,  5.8 TCF, and 1.3 BBOE of additional allocated production.

You may download the spreadsheet of API #s (sorted by county), to find API #’s that may be of interest to you.  Or, just copy and paste the list into the API # box in your searches to see if these newly located API #’s are relevant to the work that you are doing.

Below is an example of the usefulness of this older producing data. This is a map of Terrell Point (3900) field in Goliad Co, TX. The pink circles define the mapped wells in this field previous to our new import. The aqua circles define newly mapped old producers. You now have access to more extensive data within this field.

Posted: July 12th, 2010 under New Features by mnibbelink

Comments: none

Drillinginfo has made improvements to our Gulf of Mexico dataset.  Here is a summary of these important changes:

1.  Changes to better support Area Name and Block Number:

Understanding offshore opportunities means navigating by Area Name and Block number.

The Production, Well, and Permit Search have been modified to use the Area Name instead of the “county”.  Now you can simply select “High Island Area (HI)” and specify the block number to go straight to data in that area without having to know which pseudo county the block is in.  You can also specify whether you want to see both the surface and bottom hole location information in your search results.

Search Results show the Area Code and block number in a compact format.  Both the surface and bottom hole locations are shown if specified in the search.  Since DI now tags virtually all of our Gulf data with the Area Name and Block you will always have this as part of your search results.

Map Grid improvements mean that you now see the area name and codes more clearly on the map

2.  More Production Data:

Drillinginfo has added production from over 20,000 wells in the continental shelf areas in the past few weeks.  The production data now spans the gulf region with historical data back to 1947.

3. Improved Map Data:

Several changes have been made to improve the map for the Gulf of Mexico

Updates to the map grid mean that you now see the area name and codes commonly used. “De Soto Canyon” instead of “NH16-11” for example.  The information displayed when you hover over a point in map view have been updated to include the Area Name and Block number as well.  The boundaries between state and the MMS jurisdictions are also now more clearly defined.   Finally, the dashed lines showing the directional well path are now operational.

Posted: June 29th, 2010 under New Features by mridlehuber

Comments: none

Drillinginfo has released 2 important improvements to our Pennsylvania Permit data-set.

1.  Permits are now updated weekly:

With our changes to provide Permit data updates each week, you can stay on top of the most recent activity in the Marcellus and the rest of Pennsylvania.

2.  Well Location Plats Now Available:

Drillinginfo has added the images for the Location Plats for recent permits allowing you a deeper understanding of the nature of the activity.

Posted: June 28th, 2010 under Announcements by kbarbaro

Comments: none