Related Websites

Regional Sites

• Kansas Geological Survey
  • Kansas Geological Survey Oil and Gas Page
  • Oil and Gas Online Databases
• North Midcontinent Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC)
• KU Energy Research Center
• Kansas Energy Information Network (KEIN)
• Kansas Geological Foundation
  • The Robert F. Walters Digital Geological Library provides access to scanned well documents for Kansas and surrounding areas allowing user to view, print, and download scanned images of all the documents in the Kansas Geological Society Library. While scanning project continues, documents in addition to wireline logs will include geological reports, drill stem test reports, and color geological strip logs.

National Sites

• Department of Energy
• Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) is an industry-directed 501-C-3 organization created to transfer exploration and production technology to U.S. producers. By accelerating the application of profitable technologies, PTTC enhances domestic oil and natural gas production.
• Fossil Energy
• National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
• Online Fact Sheets on Fossil Energy Projects
• The Flow Visualization and Processes Laboratory at DOE’s Sandia Lab is an integrated basic research program dedicated to developing solutions to applied problems in the subsurface environment.

NSF Supported Geoscience Modeling and Informatics Programs

• CHRONOS -- Integration of Chronostratigraphic Databases for the 21st Century
• Sedimentary Systems in Space and Time
• MARGINS will focus on the coordinated, interdisciplinary investigation of four fundamental initiatives; the Seismogenic Zone Experiment, the Subduction Factory, Rupturing Continental Lithosphere, and Sediment Dynamics and Strata Formation (Source to Sink).

Public Domain Databases

• GEO-DATA Explorer (GEODE) Originally started as a means of displaying energy data for the USGS, GEODE has recently been adopted as the data delivery system of the Geologic Discipline and continues to provide unbiased scientific and energy related data to the public via a fully functional, web accessed GIS map server.Geode continues to display all types of geologic data including data sets from each of the Geologic Discipline's programs including Coastal and Marine Geology, Earth Surface Dynamics, Earthquake Hazards, Integrated Natural Resource Sciences, Mineral Resources, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping, Volcano Hazards.
• USGS - Three-Dimensional Geologic Maps and Visualization
• National Geoscience Data Repository System of AGI
• IGOR - Integrated Log and Core Database, Bureau of Economic Geology
• Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission – scanned and digital logs
• On-line Data Sources Available from the Wyoming State Geological Survey
• Data Exchange - PTTC Rockies
• Online Data - Michigan Basin Center, Midwest PTTC
• Internet Map Server - New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources

Log Standards

• The CWLS (Canadian Well Logging Society) is one of the oldest organizations devoted to log analysis, incorporated in Calgary in 1957.
• The Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the advancement of the science of petrophysics and formation evaluation, through well logging and other formation evaluation techniques and to the application of these techniques to the exploitation of gas, oil and other minerals. Founded in 1959, SPWLA provides information services to scientists in the petroleum and mineral industries, serves as a voice of shared interests in our profession, plays a major role in strengthening petrophysical education, and strives to increase the awareness of the role petrophysics has in the Oil and Gas Industry and the scientific community.
• Common Data Access Limited (CDA Standard 3 - Well Log Curve Names) is a non-profit industry regulated information utility owned by its members. Membership is open to any oil and gas company or service company owning exploration or production data obtained in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf. Currently 21 oil companies and 8 service companies have joined CDA. CDA is fully supported by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and is endorsed as a CRINE (Cost Reduction in the New Era) initiative.
• POSC Practical Well Log Standards is an international not-for-profit membership organization. POSC is uniquely designed to unite industry people, issues and ideas to collaboratively address E&P information challenges and opportunities. POSC's energy eStandards are open specifications for improving E&P business performance by leveraging Internet technologies in the integration of oil and gas business processes.

Computer Visualization Research

• F E R R E T
  Data Visualization and Analysis
• Virtual Reality Applications Center is an interdisciplinary research center administered by the Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) at Iowa State University.
• Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)
  NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure)

Geologic Modeling Research

• Delta Force at INSTARR
  Development of advanced computational tools to describe the earth’s evolving landscape and seascape. The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) strives for excellence in research, education, and outreach related to Earth System Science and Global Change in high-latitude, alpine, and other environments. An institute within the Graduate School of the University of Colorado, INSTAAR is affiliated with the Departments of CEA Engineering, Environmental Studies, EPO Biology, Geography, and Geological Sciences.

Stratigraphic Modeling

• Sequence Stratigraphy Website - University of South Carolina
  Sequence stratigraphy is a technique used to subdivide the sedimentary section into packages that are defined by bounding unconformities and internal surfaces, and are the products of changes in relative sea level and rates of sedimentation. Sequence stratigraphic analyses are made from seismic cross-sections, well logs and outcrop studies of sedimentary rocks to infer changes of relative sea level and rates of sedimentation, and predict the continuity and extent of their lithology. Website contains exercises, photo and movies, reports, references, and links on the topic that is important to subsurface and reservoir geologists.

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