By OGJ editors
WASHINGTON, DC, July 1 -- The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service late last week announced a new online ordering system that allows companies to research oil and gas well logs online; the information can also downloaded onto a customized CD-ROM for $15.
About 170,000 well logs with run dates of December 1995 and prior are available to the public. The logs are scanned in raster format (TIFF images) and include 1-in. and 5-in. induction, neutron density, formation density, and dipmeter logs.
The information is on the MMS website at www.gomr.mms.gov.
Search criteria
Data may be retrieved for an individual well log by entering a specific area and any of the following criteria: API number, lease number, block number, well name, or log type, MMS said. Once the requested logs are identified, they can be added to a shopping cart and ordered online.
"The new system spares MMS customers the inconvenience and expense of having to visit the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region's Public Information Office in New Orleans to duplicate well logs on paper," said MMS Director Johnnie Burton. MMS's new system will mean that, after August, paper copies of online well logs will no longer be available.
