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Kansas Petroleum Atlas
The Kansas Digital Petroleum Atlas (DPA) is an on-line publication
available on the Internet anywhere in the world using a standard
point-and-click world-wide-web interface (Figure
1). The Uniform resource locator (URL) is http://www.kgs.ku.edu/DPA/
dpaHome.html. It is a new approach to generating and publishing
petroleum reservoir, field, play and basin studies. The DPA is
a dynamic, evolving product with new structure, research results,
and data appearing almost daily. Through complete and flexible
user access to technology, interpretative products, and underlying
geologic and petroleum data, the DPA alters the relationship
between interpretative result and data, between technology generation
and application. Today, the DPA consists of 9,000 pages that
cover Kansass oil and gas plays at scales from the regional
through the single well sample. It also consists of a navigational
architecture that permits accessing the DPA information by a
number of methods.
Usage of the Prototype Digital Petroleum Atlas
Since the Digital Petroleum Atlas is an electronic publication,
on-line access was provided to the public soon after project
inception (January 1996). Use of the DPA products was almost
immediate and has grown steadily over the last two years (Figure 2). This near real-time transfer
of technology and information to the client is one advantage
demonstrated by the DPA.
The pages that comprise the DPA make up the bulk of the web
site for the Petroleum Research Section (PRS) of the Kansas Geological
Survey. Usage statistics show that access to these pages has
grown steadily to over 20 to 30,000 access "hits" per
month (Figure 2). In measuring access
"hits" on the PRS site, all access to graphics is removed.
This eliminates the multiple counting of access hits that result
from multiple figures (buttons, bars, arrows, etc.) on a single
web page. In addition, all access from the Kansas Geological
Survey subdomain (kgs.ku.edu) is removed. This measurement
protocol produces a consistent and conservative measure of external
usage. Current usage statistics are collected daily and weekly
and are available on the Petroleum Research Section of the Kansas
Geological Survey web site (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/usage/past_stats.html).
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