The place card and Ask

Two tools answer the question “what’s here?”:

• The place card lists the leases producing in the view, the busiest operators and fields, and two questions worth asking. It’s free.
• Ask is the map’s assistant. Type a question in plain English. It answers in a column beside the map, and can fly the map, switch layers, mark wells and open records as it goes. Each question uses credits.

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The place card

The place control sits at the top centre of the map. It names the county you’re looking at, with its RRC district above, or the basin or play when you’re zoomed out. Beside the name is what the wells in view produce, like Oil 632 bbl/d · Gas 40 mcf/d. Where nothing in view produces, it says No production. Click it to open the place card. Click it again, click outside the card, press Esc or click the card’s ✕ to close it. Opening a card on the right side of the map, such as Layers, closes it too. On a narrow window the control shrinks to its 📍 pin. Click the pin for the same card, which then names the place and what it produces at its top.

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Zoom to county and View county

The card’s top line gives the size of the view, like 12 × 9 mi view or 3 counties · 53 × 54 mi. Beside it:

• Zoom to county frames the county under the middle of the map. Zoomed far out, where there’s no county boundary to frame, it’s greyed out.
• View county opens that county’s card. See Record cards.

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Two questions to ask

Under the top line are two questions written for this view, like What produces around here? or Who is most active in Midland County? Click one to put it to Ask.

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Leases in view

LEASES IN VIEW, COUNTED WHOLE lists the producing leases in the view, highest rate first, in barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d). A lease is in view when one of its producing wells is, or its centre is. Each rate is the whole lease’s, its wells off screen included; the place control counts only the wells in view. The number beside the heading is how many leases there are. When there are more than eight, All ‹N› opens Production in view with every one of them.

• Click a lease to open its card. The map doesn’t move.
• Point at a lease to light it up on the map.
• Click a lease’s well count at the right of its row, like 3 wells, to list its wells: each well’s number, API and share of the lease’s rate. Click a well to open its card.

A rate marked ≈ is an estimate. Texas reports oil by lease, so a lease’s rate is split between its wells by each well’s allocated share. A lease that produced this year but has no current rate shows a dash and sorts last.

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Wells in view

Where nothing in view is producing, the card lists WELLS IN VIEW instead: permits that can still be drilled come first, then shut-in, plugged and dry holes. The heading says when anything in view last produced, like No production since Mar 2019. Click a well to open its card. Show ‹N› more adds the next wells to the list.

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Busiest here

BUSIEST HERE lists the top three operators and the top three fields in view, each with its number of wells and its rate in boe/d. Click one to open its card. All production in view opens Production in view, with every operator and field in the view ranked. Neither appears where nothing in view is producing.

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Signed out

Signed out, the card keeps its top line and its two questions. In place of the lists it says Sign in to see what’s in this view — its leases, what each produces, and the operators and fields busiest here. Click Sign in.

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Ask a question

Ask reads what’s on your screen: the map view, the layers that are on, the table that’s open and its filters, the record card that’s open, and your compare tray. So frame the area first, then ask. You can start a question from:

• Ask, on its own at the bottom of the controls on the right side of the map. On a short window, it moves up into the group with Layers and Print.
• One of the two questions on the place card.
• The search box. Type a question and click Ask about “‹what you typed›”, or press ⌘ Enter (Ctrl Enter on Windows). With nothing typed, the search panel suggests questions under ASK ABOUT THIS VIEW, and Ask anything about this view… opens the column.
• A follow-up question under an answer.

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The Ask column

The column docks on the right side of the window, beside the map. Drag its left edge to make it wider or narrower. It stays open or closed the way you left it, on this device. Its header shows the thread’s name, or Ask for a new one, and these buttons: Every thread is saved as you go. When the column is empty, a Continue: line names your last thread; click it to pick up where you left off.

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The question box

• Enter sends. Shift Enter starts a new line. ⌘ Enter also sends.
• The model menu under the box reads Default model until you pick another. A lighter model answers faster and uses fewer credits.
• While an answer is being written, Send becomes Stop.

Signed out, the box is replaced by Sign in to ask about this view — the wells, leases, operators and activity in it. and Sign in.

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Each answer

While the agent works, one line says what it’s doing, like Thinking… or Working…. Click the line to watch the steps. When it’s done, that line folds into a row like Worked · 7 steps. Click the row to see every step. A step that couldn’t be done shows a cross and its reason, and the row adds · 2 not applied. Under that row, one line names what the answer did to the map, like Show 26 wells by allocated cum +2:

• Undo takes that answer’s changes off.
• Zoom to appears when the agent wanted to move the map a second time. The map moves only once per answer, so the second move waits for your click.

The answer itself can hold:

• Charts, well maps, well searches (‹N› wells matched, with View on map) and pages. Expand shows a chart or map full size.
• Legends for the colours it drew on the map. MARKS has Clear marks, and HIGHLIGHTS has Clear highlights.
• Follow-up questions, under the last answer. Clicking one may also move the map or open what it names.

When the agent adds a layer of its own, a legend card for it appears under the answer. Its buttons:

• On map, a switch: lit while the layer is drawn. Click it to take the layer off the map, and again to put it back.
• Zoom to moves the map to the layer.
• Save keeps the layer in My Data, which is part of the paid plans.
• Remove takes the layer off the map and out of the list.

Inside the steps, some changes have their own button: Undo, Put wells back, Clear marks, Remove alert or Close, and Zoom to for a move that waited. On a reopened thread, Run again does a step again.

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What Ask can do

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On the map

• Fly to a place, once per answer.
• Turn layers on or off, change their settings, and switch the basemap.
• Narrow a layer to just what it’s talking about, such as one operator’s permits.
• Show only certain wells and hide the rest, up to 30,000 of them. Put wells back returns the others.
• Draw a ranked set of wells in their reservoir colours, the top ones labelled with their rank and value.
• Light up wells, leases or operators, or up to six groups, each in its own colour with a legend.
• Write a numbered label beside up to 200 things it names. Click a label to open its card.
• Show a popup at a spot, with a few lines and buttons.
• Outline an area or draw a line, with a label.
• Add layers of its own from what it found.

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Records and tools

• Open a well, lease, field, operator or county card; an injection well, pipeline or frac job; or the land at a spot.
• Open a well’s log in the Log tab. See Well logs on the map.
• Build a cross-section of up to 30 wells.
• Add records to compare, up to 12 of each kind, and open the comparison.
• Filter and sort a data table with column filters you can see and change.

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In its answers

• Charts: production on the standard log chart, time series, bars, type curves and crossplots.
• Pages: a report or dashboard on a page of its own, which you can share.
• An alert, only when you ask for one. The Alerts drawer opens on it, and Remove alert deletes it.

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Limits

• Up to 40 map changes and six added layers per answer.
• It can’t change the Formation tops or W-1 plats layers.
• It doesn’t see an open log or the cross-section.
• What it opens keeps its own access. A record card still needs a paid plan, for example.

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Undo what the agent changed

While the agent has anything on the map, a row sits at the bottom centre of the map: a sparkle, Ask, your question, and Undo.

• Undo on the row takes off everything the agent changed.
• Click the rest of the row (its tooltip reads What Ask changed on the map) to see the list:
  • ON THE MAP: the answer’s marks, highlights and drawings. Clear removes them.
  • CHANGED IN YOUR WORKSPACE: each layer, basemap, filter or sort the agent changed, each with its own Undo.
  • ASK’S LAYERS: the agent’s own layers, with the same buttons as their legend cards.
  • Undo all of Ask’s changes, at the bottom.

If you changed something yourself after the agent did, your change is kept, and the row says so for a moment, like Kept 1 change you made since. The row is saved with your map, so it’s still there after you reload the page, on another computer, and with the Ask column closed.

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Credits

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Troubleshooting

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