Maps: Exploration, Resources, Reserves, and Production |
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The following maps were developed using GIS software and then converted to pdf format. You must therefore have the Adobe Reader® browser plugin installed to view them (free download available at Adobe Acrobat Reader). Most of the maps are large format (60 inches X 36 inches, for example) because they were intended for printing on a wide-bed printer. To clearly view them on your monitor you will have to zoom in and then scroll through the map. They will also take more than just a couple of seconds to load owing to their complexity. |
United States Coalbed Methane Maps |
Panel 1: Coalbed Methane Status Map |
Panel 2: Coalbed Methane Past, Present, and Future |
United States Shale Gas Maps |
The following map panels show the drilling history and the natural gas proved reserves, production, and proved ultimate recovery histories of selected low-permeability, self-sourced, continuous-type shale reservoirs. Selected geologic characteristics pertinent to occurrence of producible gas resources in the reservoir are also shown when available. |
Active Shale Gas Plays |
Barnett Shale, Ft. Worth Basin, Texas |
United States Oil and Gas Field Maps |
The following national map portrays the location of fields identified as being among the 100 largest oil and/or 100 largest gas fields in the United States on December 31, 2006, per Appendix B of EIA's U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves Annual Report. |
The 100 Volumetrically Largest U.S. Oil and Gas Fields |
The detailed field maps linked below portray the locations, boundaries, names, and either the barrel-of-oil equivalent (BOE) or the liquid hydrocarbon (crude oil plus lease condensate) or the natural gas reserve size classes of the known oil and gas fields in selected geologically defined areas of the U.S. at year-end 2001. Multiple map sheets were required to adequately portray the fields of some areas. Use this
Index of Detailed Field Maps to identify which of the subsequently listed oil and gas field maps you might be interested in viewing. Pursuant to Section 604 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, these maps are one product of a joint Department of the Interior, Department of Energy, and Department of Agriculture study of access to oil and gas resources located on Federal onshore lands. The maps conform to that ongoing study's temporal, areal, and technical requirements.
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Compatible GIS software is required to read, render, and manipulate the data content of the following files that provide the identification, location, boundary, size class, and other EIA-sourced information used to generate the detailed field maps linked above. The files are provided in compressed format (.zip) sets. |
Users of WinZip® are advised that a default setting must be changed in the WinZip compression utility (any version) to avoid corruption of the GIS files while they are being unzipped. The following change only affects unzipping: 1) Open WinZip Classic. 2) Select Options > Configuration > Miscellaneous tab. 3) Uncheck the 'TAR file smart CR/LF conversion' box. It will remain unchecked until you check it again. 4) Select OK. |
Data for the Coalbed Methane Panels |
Shapefiles for field boundaries (2007), resources (2006), reserves and production (2006), and the top 100 methane emitting coal mines (2005). |
Data for the Detailed Oil and Gas Field Maps |
Shapefile for the Powder River, Greater Green River, Uinta-Piceance, and Paradox-San Juan Basins plus Shapefile for the Montana Thrust Belt |
Shapefile for the Appalachian Basin |
Shapefiles for the Black Warrior Basin, Denver Basin, Wyoming Thrust Belt, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska plus the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 1002 Area, and the South Florida Peninsula |
Shapefiles for the Eastern Great Basin, Eastern Oregon and Washington, Alaskan North Slope, Alaska's Cook Inlet, Ventura Basin, and Williston Basin |
The following Word® (.doc) files provide and describe three script codes conceived, developed, and implemented by EIA to (a) automatically and efficiently generate geologically reasonable oil and gas field boundaries from well data, and then (b) calculate the percentage of Federal land within the each field's boundary. The scripts are coded in Visual Basic® for use in conjunction with ArcGIS® software. |
Well Buffering Script |
Field Outline Smoothing Script |
Federal Land Percentage Calculation Script |
Application of the decision procedure specified in the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Guidelines for Providing Appropriate Access to Geospatial Data in Response to Security Concerns to the geospatial data provided via this web page resulted in a finding that safeguarding of these data is unwarranted. |
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