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PSImplementation of GIS Technology from the Rocky Mountain Previous HitOilfieldNext Hit Testing Center (RMOTC), Casper, Wyoming*

By

Brian J. Black1, Jeanette W. Buelt1, and Tom Anderson1

 

Search and Discovery Article #40309 (2008)

Posted November 13, 3008

 

*Adapted from poster presentation at AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2008

 

1Navarro Research and Engineering, Rocky Mountain Previous HitOilfieldNext Hit Testing Center, Casper, WY.  ([email protected])

 

Abstract 

The Rocky Mountain Previous HitOilfieldNext Hit Testing Center (RMOTC) operates the Teapot Dome Previous HitOilfieldNext Hit near Casper, Wyoming, also known as Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3. During the past three years, RMOTC has been gathering and consolidating over 80 years of Previous HitoilfieldNext Hit data and entering that information into a modern geo-computing environment and relational database. A major part of this process includes implementation of a true Geographic Information System (GIS), specifically ArcGIS. Over the past 2 ½ years, RMOTC has upgraded its GIS capabilities to display facilities, pipelines, well locations, roads, utility lines, remote sensing data, and other features in real-world spatial coordinates. This is a significant upgrade compared to past practices of using drafting software with stand-alone coordinate systems, not spatially referenced, for creating maps of the field and facilities. The GIS has allowed RMOTC personnel to display and integrate a large variety of spatial data in ways that were previously not possible. RMOTC uses ArcGIS to store and display information used in a variety of Previous HitoilfieldNext Hit applications such as creating basemaps of field infrastructure and facilities, displaying well production data, incorporating geological and geophysical interpretation, pipeline leak assessment and flow assurance, environmental monitoring, tracking Previous HitoilfieldNext Hit operations, etc. The data and maps generated by ArcGIS have been greatly appreciated by RMOTC scientists and engineers as well as RMOTC project partners. Implementation of the GIS has helped RMOTC become the premier Previous HitoilfieldNext Hit testing and demonstration center in the United States.