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Development of the DOE GASIS National Oil and Gas Reservoir Database

Robert H. Hugman

The Department of Energy's Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) is supporting the development of a national database of geological, engineering, and summary production and ultimate recovery data for U.S. oil and gas reservoirs. The reservoir database will be the primary component of the DOE Gas Information System ("GASIS"), and will combine previously compiled public domain data, newly acquired and interpreted data, and newly released data into a single database with over 18,000 reservoir records. Each reservoir record is expected to contain approximately 180 individual data items. The GASIS database will be made available to industry on CD-ROM for personal computer applications.

The database is being developed both for DOE and the oil and gas industry. DOE will use GASIS data as input for a micro-computer based national supply and demand model. For industry and the research community, GASIS will be the first large-scale national public domain compilation of reservoir data.

In addition to database development, the GASIS project includes a major geological research effort designed to improve the coverage and quality of reservoir information in selected regions and plays. This work includes regional and field-level log correlation, log analysis, data collection, and geological interpretation. Reservoir studies are planned for the Mid-Continent region, Texas, and the Central and Eastern Gulf Coast region. These studies will result in a dramatic improvement in the quality and coverage of reservoir level information in the studied areas. In the Mid-Continent region, reservoir studies are concentrating on the assignment of completion level gas production to individual reservoirs.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #91020©1995 AAPG Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, May 5-8, 1995