Programming implemented by Bryan Bunch of the EPPC Cabinet, Frankfort, has enabled automatic extraction of the data from the Kentucky Geological Survey SQL data server. As a result of his work, this data set can (and will) be updated on a more timely basis. Please check the file kyog_info.txt for the date the shape file was created.
The shape file is provided in two versions:
1) kyog_dd, projection is decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, NAD83 2) kyog_1z, projection is feet, Kentucky State Plane Single Zone, NAD83
The wells in this distribution include only those wells for which a complete Carter coordinate location is available; that is, only wells for which latitude and longitude can be calculated. For most areas in Kentucky there exist additional wells for which we have insufficient location data to determine latitude and longitude. To obtain data for wells for which only the county, 7.5-minute quadrangle, or partial Carter coordinate are known, copies of the electronic data must be obtained. You can explore and download these data at the Oil and Gas Well Search service, <http://kgsweb.uky.edu/DataSearching/OilGas/OGResults.asp>.
Well locations in this shape file are based on the best available location. The Kentucky Geological Survey does not have staff to field check well locations. With the adoption of Kentucky Revised Statute 353 (1960), the location of a well is determined by a licensed land surveyor who prepares and submits a plat showing that well location. Wells are often drilled off the permitted location for a variety of reasons. For wells drilled prior to 1960, the Kentucky Geological Survey relies on a map collection that includes compay lease maps, field work maps, and many others. Critical well locations should be verified in the field by the user.
Energy and Minerals Section, Kentucky Geological Survey, University o, 1-Apr-2006, kyog_dd: Kentucky Oil and Gas Well Data, NAD 83 Version 11, Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, Kentucky.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000000. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000000. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is Geodetic Reference System 80.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222.
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Coordinates defining the features.
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | Stratigraphic names of Kentucky |
| Codeset Source: | <http://www.uky.edu/KGS/emsweb/kyogfaq/kyogfaq16.html> |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | Stratigraphic names of Kentucky |
| Codeset Source: | <http://www.uky.edu/KGS/emsweb/kyogfaq/kyogfaq16.html> |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| BOPD | barrels of oil per day |
| BOPH | barrels of oil per hour |
| DISP | Deepest pay reported is a disposal zone |
| INJECT | Deepest pay reported is an injection zone |
| MCFGPD | Thousand cubic feet of natural gas per day |
| MMCF | Million cubic feet of natural gas per day |
| SUPPLY | Deepest pay reported is a water-supply zone |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| DEV | Development well (drilled in a known producing area to a known producing zone) |
| DPT | Deeper pool test (drilled in a known producing area to test the potential of a zone deeper than the deepest currently producing zone) |
| DPTD | Deeper pool test resulting in development of existing producing formation |
| EXT | Extension (or outpost) well. Rule of thumb: a well drilled 0.5 to 1 mile from a known producing area. |
| MSC | A miscellaneous well drilled to support oil and gas production or transportation (Gas Injection, Cathodic Protection, and others) |
| NFW | New field wildcat (drilled to test a new area). In Kentucky, usage is essentially the same as NPW |
| NPW | New pool wildcat (drilled to test a new area). In Kentucky, usage is essentially the same as NFW |
| SPT | Shallower pool test (drilled in a known producing area to test a potential zone shallower than any existing producing zones) |
| SRV | Service well, essentially an EPA Class II injection well associated with enhanced oil recovery operations |
| STR | Stratigraphic test with records released to the public. Corresponds to STRP in the KGS internal database. |
| UNC | Unclassified well |
| WSW | Water supply well (note ORG_WCLASS should be SRV and ORG_RESULT should be WS) |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| AB | Well known to be abandoned but with no supporting data (plugging affidavit) on file. |
| AI | Air injection |
| CBM | Coalbed methane gas producer (a gas well) |
| COI | Carbon dioxide injector |
| CP | Cathodic protection |
| D&A | Dry and abandoned |
| DG | Domestic gas well, non-commercial, for household use |
| EPB | Enhanced recovery polymer barrier |
| ERI | Enhanced recovery injection |
| FF | Fire flood (enhanced recovery well) |
| GAS | Natural gas producer |
| GS | Gas storage well (can be injection or production) |
| IA | Improperly abandoned well |
| LOC | Well location (new permit issued or insufficient data to determine a result) |
| N2I | Nitrogen injection, enhanced recovery well |
| O&G | Combined oil and gas producer |
| OB | Observation or monitoring well |
| OIL | Oil producer |
| SI | Steam injection, enhanced recovery injection |
| SRI | Secondary recovery injection (EPA Class II) |
| SWD | Salt water disposal well |
| TA | Temporarily abandoned |
| TAI | Thermal and air injection, enhanced recovery injection |
| TRM | Terminated permit (permit was allowed to expire or was cancelled by the operator) |
| TP | Termination pending |
| TRI | Tertiary recovery injection, enhanced recovery injection |
| UN | Unknown (used by the KY Division of Oil and Gas) |
| WD | Water disposal |
| WI | Water injection, enhanced recovery injection |
| WS | Water supply (usually supply for drilling operations) |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| AB | Well known to be abandoned, manner of plugging not known |
| IR | Abandonment attested to by an Inspector's Report (record not generally available through KGS) |
| PA | Standard plugging affidavit form specified by KRS 353 |
| PP | Plugging affidavit describing partial plugging ("plug back") of well. |
| PR | Narrative description of plugging of well not on required forms |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| <NULL> | Null value, no logs are on file |
| Any other value | Any other value indicates one or more logs are available. |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| CBM | Coalbed methane gas producer |
| D&A | Dry and abandoned well |
| GAS | Wells completed as gas wells (including abandoned producers) |
| LOC | Newly permitted locations or historic wells for which completion data are not available in the KGS database |
| MSC | Miscellaneous well types, including cathodic protection, observation, water supply wells, and others |
| O&G | Wells completed as combined oil and gas producers (including abandoned producers) |
| OIL | Wells completed as oil (including abandoned producers) |
| SRV | Secondary recovery input, water injection, and other miscellaneous well types associated with secondary or enhanced oil recovery (EPA Class II wells) |
| STR | Stratigraphic tests released to the public (must be plugged and abandoned by provisions of KRS 353). |
| TRM | Locations for which a permit was issued but the permit was cancelled by the operator or allowed to expire. Wells with this designation are included to enable tracking the status of permits. |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| V | Conventional vertical well bore (not intentionally deviated) |
| D | A deviated well bore (intentionally deviated, but does not reach horizontal) |
| H | A horizontal well bore potentially including multiple laterals and pinnate deviations from those laterals |
Kentucky Geological Survey Oil and Gas Well Records Database
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General oil and gas well data for use in petroleum exploration and development and other subsurface investigations
Data sources used in this process:
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Every effort has been made so the data in this distribution best reflects the drilling records on file at the Kentucky Geological Survey. Critical information should be verified by consulting those records; scanned images are available online at kgsweb.uky.edu/DataSearching/OilGas/OGSearch.asp. Please report any discrepancies to the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Horizontal accuracy is a function of the quality of map data available at the Kentucky Geological Survey. Historic well location maps and literature that do not meet current standards are often used in conjunction with modern topographic maps to determine a location. Beginning with the adoption of KRS 353 in 1960, a well location plat prepared by a licensed land surveyor is required to be submitted with an application for a permit to drill a well. The permitted well location may not correspond to the location "as drilled"; Kentucky has no requirement for filing "as drilled" location plats. Most locations have not been field checked. A few locations have been field checked and location data derived from GPS are supplied in this file. In any case, the regulatory/administrative location remains the surveyed well location as shown on the plat.
Data in this file are presented as is with no warranty either expressed or implied as to the completeness or accuracy of any location or well status. Data on file at the Kentucky Geological Survey are submitted by well operators under requirements established by Kentucky Revised Statute 353. The producing or abandoned status of any well is dependent on the completion type reported by the operator on the well log and completion report, on the availability of a plugging affidavit, and on other information or maps on file in the Public Information Center of the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Some wells in the database have duplicate locations (sometimes more than one well at a given location). As in the case of workovers and deepenings of existing wells, this is intended. However, in the recent conversion of our database to new software on a new server, some valid locations were inadvertently duplicated to wells that have no location. These wells are being identified and corrected. Suspect invalid duplication if there are significantly more than four or five entries at a given location and the location is in the middle of a 1-minute or 5-minute Carter coordinate section or the middle of a 7.5-minute quadrangle. Your assistance in this matter is requested and appreciated.
This shape file is consistent with digital data available at the Kentucky Geological Survey as of the date it was extracted.
Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
- Access_Constraints: None.
- Use_Constraints:
- Data and images in this distribution are copyrighted (2006) by the Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky. The user is granted the right to use these data to produce maps, charts, and reports. The user of these data is further granted the right to provide copies of the oil and gas well-data shapefiles included as described in this document provided:
1. The data are distributed in their original form, as acquired from the Kentucky Geological Survey or downloaded from its Web site. 2. This documentation, including the notice of copyright and disclaimer, are provided without modification. 3. The data and documentation are supplied at no cost to the user.
If you have acquired these data from a third party, the Kentucky Geological Survey invites you to visit our web site at www.uky.edu/kgs/.
859-257-5500 (voice)
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Downloadable Data
Data in this file are presented as is with no warranty either expressed or implied as to the completeness or accuracy of any location or well status. Data on file at the Kentucky Geological Survey are submitted by well operators under requirements established by Kentucky Revised Statute 353. The producing or abandoned status of any well is dependent on the completion type reported by the operator on the well log and completion report, on the availability of a plugging affidavit, and on other information or maps on file in the Public Information Center of the Kentucky Geological Survey.
| Data format: | ARCG ESRI ArcView/ArcGIS shape file Size: 131.296 |
|---|---|
| Network links: | <http://kgsweb.uky.edu/download/geology/kyog83.zip> |
This data set is available through the Kentucky Geological Survey web site at www.uky.edu/kgs at no charge. It is also distributed as supplemetal data to accompany several Kentucky Geological Survey digital publications.
Subsets of this data file with additional attributes, including stratigraphic tops data, are available by contacting the Kentucky Geological Survey, Brandon Nuttall, bnuttall@uky.edu. These data are distributed in Excel spreadsheet format and are charged: $10 setup and processing fee plus $0.15 per well.
859-257-5500 x 174 (voice)
859-257-1147 (FAX)
bnuttall@uky.edu