Layers, heatmaps & basemaps

Click Layers, the top button on the right side of the map, to open its card. Wells, Permits, Completions, Texas counties and Texas basemap (survey lines) are on from the start.

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Using the Layers card

• Filter layers narrows the list as you type.
• Each group (WELLS, ANALYTICS, REFERENCE) shows how many of its layers are on, out of how many, like 2 / 10.
• Each row’s swatch shows what the layer draws: a dot for points, an outline for areas, a bar for lines, a color strip for a shaded layer, the record’s own mark for Permits and Completions, and a log strip for Logs. A faded swatch means the layer is off.
• Once a layer is on, an Options button appears on its row. On the Wells row it names the current style instead, like Style: Type; see Style wells by your data. It opens the layer’s options and legend in a panel to the left. Close it with ✕.
• The chips at the bottom of the card name everything that’s drawn. Click a chip’s × to turn that layer off. With nothing on, the card reads Nothing drawn — the map is basemap only.
• Point at something a layer draws, such as an injection well, a log or a heatmap hexagon, for a small card that names it and gives its figures.
• Close the card with its ✕, by clicking Layers again, or with Esc.

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Wells

Satellite pads and Rig Watch cover only the counties being watched. The Satellite pads options list them. Outside those counties, no mark means not watched, not no pad or no rig.

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Style wells by your data

The button on the Wells row, which reads Style: Type at first, opens a panel that colors the wells on the map by one thing you choose. It colors every well drawn: the RRC’s, your versions of them and your team’s. Pick one row: The row you pick opens its options under it:

• Ramp: … chooses the colors for a ramp.
• Breaks: Quantile, Equal or Custom. Custom starts from the breaks on the map and lets you type your own four.
• A table of the classes, with how many wells in view fall in each. Wells with no value keep their type color, dimmed.
• For a text attribute, Edit classes lets you give each value a color of its own, or put it in Other.

On the map, every well in view takes the color of its class, and a legend at the bottom left says what the colors mean. Quantile and equal breaks and decades are worked out for the wells in view, so they change as you pan and zoom; your custom breaks and class colors stay put. Under Type there’s no legend, and the map looks as it always does. The style works from zoom 9, with up to 30,000 wells in view. Zoomed further out, or with more wells than that in view, the wells keep their type colors, and the foot of the panel says so, like 48,210 wells in view · zoom in to colour them. Your choice is kept for your account and project.

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Permit, completion and log marks

Permits, Completions and Logs each draw a mark of their own, so you can tell them from the wells around them:

• A permit is a raspberry ring with no fill: a well that isn’t drilled yet.
• A completion is a teal triangle pointing down.
• A log is an upright capsule around the well: solid for a digital LAS log, dashed for a scan. See Well logs.

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My Wells

The My Wells row appears once you’ve corrected a well’s data or added a well of your own. Its Options have two choices:

• Replace RRC (the default): your version of each well replaces the RRC’s mark.
• Compare: the RRC’s location stays on the map beneath each of your wells.

Open in My Data and Open the grid take you to your wells’ list and their table. See My Wells on the map.

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Injection wells

Its Options have two choices:

• SIZE BY: Uniform, or Rate (the default), which sizes each well by its injection rate in bbl/d.
• COLOR BY: Purpose (the default: Disposal, EOR, Storage, Other), Pressure (as a share of permitted pressure) or Utilization (as a share of permitted rate). Wells that aren’t reporting are grey.

Rates are averaged over the months each permit actually reported. A permit whose last report is stale draws at the smallest size. Click an injection well to open it in a drawer on the left: Permits, Sources, Integrity and Compliance.

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Well logs

Logs marks each well that has an electric log on record with a capsule around it: solid for a digital LAS log, dashed for a scanned image or document. Olive capsules are the regulatory catalogues’ logs; blue ones are yours or your organization’s. Its Options have three switches: Regulatory catalogues, Mine & my org and LAS logs only, and a key to the capsules. To open a well’s log, zoom in and use Logs in the well’s popup. Zoomed further out, click the capsule itself. A digital log opens in a viewer beside the map. See Well logs on the map.

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Analytics

Valuation metrics (net asset value, PV-10 and PDP reserves) appear only when your account includes lease valuation.

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Reading a heatmap

• The five heatmaps are choices in the SURFACE box, marked one at a time. Picking one turns off any other. Pick it again, or click None, to turn it off.
• Picking a heatmap opens its options panel: a menu of metrics (long lists have a search box) and a legend of what the colors mean. While it’s on, its Options button opens the panel again.
• Point at a hexagon for a small card with its figures. Click it to open what’s inside: the Wells (or Leases) and their Aggregates. On Frac disclosures, a hexagon opens Jobs, Chemistry and Aggregates.

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Allocated production

Allocated production writes each well’s lifetime production on the map: the amount in thousands above the well, and its reservoir below. For example, 50 over STRAWN is 50,000 boe from the Strawn.

• Each well is colored by its reservoir, which is the field of the lease it produces on. Laterals take the same color.
• A well producing from several reservoirs is drawn as a pie, with a slice for each, largest first.
• In its Options, SHOW switches between boe (the default), Oil (bbl) and Gas (mcf). Oil and Gas show only wells that made some.
• Size by amount draws each well as a bubble sized by what it made. The key shows the scale.
• Dots show from a statewide view, pies from zoom 10, and the numbers and reservoir names from zoom 13.

Hover or click a well as usual; the layer doesn’t change what opens. Switch the Wells layer off to see only the allocated wells.

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Production units

Production units draws each producing well as the land it produces from: a vertical well as its share of its survey tract, a horizontal as a strip along its lateral. The units appear from zoom 9. Zoomed further out, you see the survey tracts that produce, darker where something produces now. Its Options:

• COLOUR BY: Size (how big a well this was, by cumulative boe against every well in Texas), Within field (against the same kind of well in the same field) or Per acre (boe per acre of its unit, so small and large units share one scale). A legend shows the classes.
• SURVEY TRACTS: a key to the tracts’ shades, and Shade tracts by boe per acre when zoomed out.
• WELLS: All, Vertical or Horizontal, and Producing now only.
• FIRST PRODUCTION: a range of years. Play shows the wells appearing in the order they first produced.

From zoom 10, point at a unit for a small card. Clicking a unit zooms in to it; from zoom 12, a click opens the unit’s card, which answers all three rankings and gives its figures, and a click on bare ground opens the survey tract’s card. Texas reports oil by lease, so a well’s oil here is an estimate unless it’s a gas well or the only well on its lease.

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Reference

• Texas counties
• Texas basemap: survey lines and abstracts
• RRC districts: each district is filled with the color the RRC uses on its own district map. Districts that share an office share a color (01 & 02, 05 & 06), and 6E is drawn over 06. Switch Fill by district off in its Options for outlines only.
• Pipelines
• Surface tracts
• W-1 plats: the permit plats you’ve placed on the map from a well’s card. The switch shows or hides them all. Its Options list each one with its opacity, View plat, Zoom to and Remove, and Clear all takes every plat off the map. See W-1 plats in the Layers card.

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Basemaps

Click Map style, the thumbnail at the bottom left of the map, to choose a background: Default, Dark, Light, Streets, Satellite or Topo. There are also six plain backgrounds, from White to Charcoal, for a map with nothing but your data on it.

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Well filters

Click Filters, the second button on the right side of the map, or press ⌘ ⇧ K. These filters apply at every zoom level:

• WELL TYPES: show only some types (Permit, Oil Well, Gas Well, Dry, Injection, Shut-in Oil…).
• WELLBORE: All, Vertical or Horizontal.
• ANY COLUMN: filter wells on any column, like operator, completion date or cumulative oil, the same way as in the data tables. Your saved filters are here too. The Wells table then lists only what the map draws.

The header counts the filters that are on, and Clear turns them all off. While filters are on, the Filters button lights up and shows how many. The bottom of the card says how many wells are on the map.

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Settings

Settings, the gear on the right side of the map, has its own page: light or dark colors, where record cards open, the place control’s units, the status bar, well popups, well marks and well labels, and the map data on this device. See Map settings.