Description:

The purpose of the cell map is to display the exploration maturity, type of production, and distribution of production in quarter-mile cells in each of the oil and gas plays and each of the provinces defined for the 1995 U.S. National Oil and Gas Assessment. Cell maps for each oil and gas play were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in a play or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from the Petroleum Information (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS), which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary WHCS data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from WHCS were current as of December 1990 when the cell maps were created in 1994. Oil and gas plays within province 16 (Salton Trough) are listed here by play number, type, and name.

Links:

• Metadata link
• USGS_DDS_P16_cells

Temporal Extent:

Start: 1990-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

End: 1990-12-01T23:59:59.999Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: 32.634293 -116.66911 34.02059 -114.74501

CEOS_EXTRA Short Name: USGS_DDS_P16_cells Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C2231548651-CEOS_EXTRA

Description:

The purpose of the cell map is to display the exploration maturity, type of production, and distribution of production in quarter-mile cells in each of the oil and gas plays and each of the provinces defined for the 1995 U.S. National Oil and Gas Assessment. Cell maps for each oil and gas play were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in a play or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from the Petroleum Information (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS), which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary WHCS data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from WHCS were current as of December 1990 when the cell maps were created in 1994. Oil and gas plays within province 10 (San Joaquin Basin) are listed here by play number, type, and name: Number Type Name 1001 conventional Pliocene Non-associated Gas 1002 conventional Southeast Stable Shelf 1003 conventional Lower Bakersfield Arch 1004 conventional West Side Fold Belt Sourced by Post-Lower Miocene Rocks. 1005 conventional West Side Fold Belt Sourced by Pre-Middle Miocene Rocks 1006 conventional Northeast Shelf of Neogene Basin 1007 conventional Northern Area Non-associated Gas 1008 conventional Tejon Platform 1009 conventional South End Thrust Salient 1010 conventional East Central Basin and Slope North of Bakersfield Arch 1011 conventional Deep Overpressured Fractured Rocks of West Side Fold and Overthrust Belt

Links:

• Metadata link
• USGS-DDS_30_P-10_cells

Temporal Extent:

Start: 1990-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

End: 1990-12-01T23:59:59.999Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: 34.890034 -121.388916 37.83907 -118.58517

CEOS_EXTRA Short Name: USGS-DDS_30_P-10_cells Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C2231552106-CEOS_EXTRA

Description:

The purpose of the cell map is to display the exploration maturity, type of production, and distribution of production in quarter-mile cells in each of the oil and gas plays and each of the provinces defined for the 1995 U.S. National Oil and Gas Assessment. Cell maps for each oil and gas play were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in a play or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from the Petroleum Information (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS), which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary WHCS data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from WHCS were current as of December 1990 when the cell maps were created in 1994. Oil and gas plays within province 20 (Uinta - Piceance Basin) are listed here by play number, type, and name: Number Type Name 2001 conventional Piceance Tertiary Conventional 2002 conventional Uinta Tertiary Oil and Gas 2003 conventional Upper Cretaceous Conventional 2004 conventional Cretaceous Dakota to Jurassic 2005 conventional Permian-Pennsylvanian Sandstones and Carbonates 2007 continuous Tight Gas Piceance Mesaverde Williams Fork 2009 continuous Cretaceous Self-Sourced Fractured Shales Oil 2010 continuous Tight Gas Piceance Mesaverde Iles 2014 conventional Basin Margin Subthrusts 2015 continuous Tight Gas Uinta Tertiary East 2016 continuous Tight Gas Uinta Tertiary West 2018 continuous Basin Flank Uinta Mesaverde 2020 continuous Deep Synclinal Uinta Mesaverde 2050 coalbed gas Uinta Basin - Book Cliffs 2051 coalbed gas Uinta Basin - Sego 2052 coalbed gas Uinta Basin - Emery 2053 coalbed gas Piceance Basin - White River Dome 2054 coalbed gas Piceance Basin - Western Basin Margin 2055 coalbed gas Piceance Basin - Grand Hogback 2056 coalbed gas Piceance Basin - Divide Creek Anticline 2057 coalbed gas Piceance Basin - Igneous Intrusion

Links:

• Metadata link
• USGS_DDS_P20_cells

Temporal Extent:

Start: 1990-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

End: 1990-12-01T23:59:59.999Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: 38.14689 -111.486916 40.85869 -105.87804

CEOS_EXTRA Short Name: USGS_DDS_P20_cells Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C2231553991-CEOS_EXTRA

Description:

The purpose of the cell map is to display the exploration maturity, type of production, and distribution of production in quarter-mile cells in each of the oil and gas plays and each of the provinces defined for the 1995 U.S. National Oil and Gas Assessment. Cell maps for each oil and gas play were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in a play or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from the Petroleum Information (PI) Well History Control System (WHCS), which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary WHCS data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from WHCS were current as of December 1990 when the cell maps were created in 1994. Oil and gas plays within province 18 (Western Great Basin) are listed here by play number, type, and name: Number Type Name 1801 conventional Hornbrook Basin-Modoc Plateau 1802 conventional Eastern Oregon Neogene Basins 1803 conventional Permian-Triassic Source Rocks Northwestern Nevada and East Central and Eastern Oregon 1804 conventional Cretaceous Source Rocks, Northwestern Nevada 1805 conventional Neogene Source Rocks, Northwestern Nevada and Eastern California

Links:

• Metadata link
• USGS_DDS_P18_cells

Temporal Extent:

Start: 1990-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

End: 1990-12-01T23:59:59.999Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: 32.717037 -122.29004 44.563953 -114.13121

CEOS_EXTRA Short Name: USGS_DDS_P18_cells Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C2231554181-CEOS_EXTRA

Description:

The purpose of these files is to illustrate the geologic boundary of the play as defined for the 1995 U.S. National Assessment. The play was used as the fundamental assessment unit. The fundamental geologic unit used in the 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment was the play, which is defined as a set of known or postulated oil and or gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties, such as source rock, migration pathways, timing, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The geographic limit of each play was defined and mapped by the geologist responsible for each province. The play boundaries were defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the play, such as the limits of the reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. The only exceptions to this are plays that border the Federal-State water boundary. In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the play boundary. The play boundaries were defined in the period 1993-1994. Conventional oil and gas plays within province 2 (Central Alaska) are listed here by play number and name: Number Name 201 Central Alaska Cenozoic Gas 202 Central Alaska Mesozoic Gas 203 Central Alaska Paleozoic Oil 204 Kandik Pre-Mid-Cretaceous Strata 205 Kandik Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary Non-Marine Stata

Links:

• Metadata link
• USGS_DDS_P2_conventional

Temporal Extent:

Start: 1996-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

End: 1996-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

Spatial Extent:

Minimum Bounding Rectangle: 58.49761 -173.22636 68.01999 -140.99017

CEOS_EXTRA Short Name: USGS_DDS_P2_conventional Version ID: Not provided Unique ID: C2231551071-CEOS_EXTRA