Tour of the map

Anyone can look around the map without an account. Search results and the data tables need a free account. Record cards opened from the map, selected areas, projects, Recents, My Data, Alerts, the Operators and Fields panels and cross-sections need a paid plan. See Plans & access.

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The screen at a glance

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Left rail

The rail on the left opens panels in a card on the left of the map, called a drawer. Its header has ‹ and › to step back and forward through what you’ve opened (⌘ [ and ⌘ ] work from anywhere), and ✕ to close it.

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The start drawer

The start drawer opens by itself the first time you load Maps in a session. Click the QuickScout logo, at the left end of the search box, to bring it back; click it again to close it.

• GO TO — PLACE: a county, an abstract within it, or a latitude and longitude.
• GO TO — RRC RECORD: an API, a lease number with its district, a field number or an operator number. This needs a plan.
• BASINS: click a basin to frame it. Show counties is a switch: while it’s on, every county in these basins is shaded on the map.
• SAVED SCOPES: destinations you’ve saved on this device. Save, beside Go to …, saves one, and stays lit while that destination is saved. A scope’s × removes it.
• RECENTS: once you’ve opened records, the last few of them, and See all.
• At the bottom: Clear empties what you’ve typed, and the Go to … button names where it will take you. New leases lists leases that recently started producing, Surface tracts turns that layer on or off, and Alerts opens your alerts.
• At the top: links to the Homepage, the Dashboard and Maps (previous), the earlier version of Maps.

To find something by name, use Search instead.

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Command bar

The bar at the top left of the map holds the QuickScout logo and the search box. The logo opens the start drawer. Click the box, or press ⌘ K (Ctrl K on Windows) or /, to find wells, leases, operators, fields and places. See Search. While a search is on, the box keeps your words and says how many of the search’s wells are on screen, like 57 of 829 on screen. Click that count to open the results in the data tables; see Search results. The × at the end of the box takes the search off the map. See While a search is on. When the map is narrow, for example with a card open beside it, the bar shrinks to the logo and a Search button. Click Search for the search box.

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The place control

At the top centre of the map, the place control (📍) names where you’re looking: the county, or the basin when you’re zoomed out. Beside the name is what the wells in view produce, like Oil 632 bbl/d · Gas 40 mcf/d. To see one rate in boe/d instead, choose boe/d in Settings. A view where nothing produces reads No production. Click the control for the place card: Zoom to county and View county, two questions to ask about the view, and the leases in view, biggest producers first. See The place card. When there isn’t room for the whole control, it shrinks to its 📍 pin. Click the pin for the same card, which then names the place and its production itself.

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Right side controls

Click a button to open its card; click it again, click outside, press Esc or click the card’s ✕ to close it. One card is open at a time, across the whole map: opening one closes any other, the place card included. From the top:

• Layers: turn map layers and heatmaps on and off, and color the wells by your own data. See Layers & heatmaps, including the drilling timeline.
• Filters: show only certain well types (Oil Well, Gas Well, Permit…), wellbores (Vertical / Horizontal), or wells matching a filter on any column. While filters are on, the button lights up and shows how many. See Well filters.
• Settings (the gear): light or dark colors, where record cards open, the place control’s units, the status bar, well popups, well marks and labels, and the map data on this device. See Map settings.
• Print: make a scaled sheet and save it as PDF, PNG or GeoTIFF. See Print a map.

Below them, each on its own:

• Cross section (X): click wells on the map, in order, and see them side by side as a cross-section. The number on the button counts its wells. This needs a paid plan. See Cross-sections.
• Ask: ask about what’s in view. Ask opens in a column on the right of the map, and its answers can mark wells, switch layers and open records. It needs a free account, and each question uses credits. See The Ask column.

Every button keeps its label at every window size. On a short window the buttons get shorter, and on the shortest, Cross section and Ask move up into the group with Layers and Print.

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Bottom of the map

• Map style, the thumbnail at the bottom left: choose the background map, including Satellite and Topo. See Basemaps.
• Beside it, the status bar: a scale bar, and the latitude and longitude under your pointer. Click the bar to choose what it shows, such as the zoom level, or the county and abstract under your pointer. See Status bar.
• At the bottom right, the draw tools, each with its key. Measure (M) measures distance: click to add points, double-click to finish, and press Esc to stop.
• Pin (P), Line (L) and Area (G) sketch notes on the map. A line shows its length, and an area shows its acres. Clear removes them. These sketches aren’t saved; to keep a shape, draw it in My Data.
• Select (S) selects an area (a box, a shape, survey tracts or wells you pick) and opens a card that sums up everything inside it, with a Selected area tab in the data tables. It needs a paid plan. While a selection is on the map and its card is shut, Select shows the selection’s well count, and clicking it brings the card back. See Select an area.
• On a short window the draw tools fold into one Draw button. Click it for the tools.
• + and − zoom.
• Along the bottom, the compare tray appears once you add a well, lease, operator, field or selected area to compare. Compare N wells (or leases, fields, operators or areas) opens the comparison. See The compare tray.
• At the bottom centre, a badge appears while filters shape the map; see The badge on the map. After Ask changes the map, an Ask row there lets you Undo it; see Undo what the agent changed. While you select an area, the bar there offers Box, Shape, Wells and Survey.

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Data tables

The handle on the map’s right edge, labeled Tables, opens the data tables beside the map: Wells, Leases, Operators, Fields, P-4 and more. Drag it to resize. See Data tables. The tables are also where you export wells, leases and production in bulk. To export one lease, open its card and use Export in its Lease record block. See Export data.

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Clicking and hovering

• Click a well to see its popup. It stays open until you click elsewhere on the map, click another well, click its ✕ or press Esc. View well in the popup opens the well’s card. See The well popup.
• Clicking a colored operator or field area opens that operator’s or field’s card. See Record cards.
• Cards open beside the tables, or at the right of the map when the tables are shut. To have them open on the left instead, see Record cards in Settings.
• While a well’s card is open, the well is marked in amber on the map, and a chip at the map’s edge points to it when it’s out of sight. The card’s Highlight switch turns this marking off. Clicking the map doesn’t close the card: use its ×, or press Esc.
• Right-click anywhere for the survey abstract and surface owner at that spot. See Land and owners.
• Hold Shift and drag a box to select an area, as Select does: its card and a Selected area tab list everything inside it. This needs a paid plan. See Select an area.

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The well popup

• At the top: the kind of well and its status, Edit and ✕. Then its lease and well number, its operator, its field, and its API, county and district. Click the lease, operator, field or county to open its card. The Copy icon beside the API copies it.
• Edit: correct this well’s data, or add your own. Your team sees your changes. This needs a paid plan; see My Wells.
• The lease’s production, oil in bbl and gas in mcf: To date, Per day now and the last 12 months. The RRC reports oil by lease, so every well on a lease shows the same figures. You need to be signed in to see them.
• The wellbore: total depth, lateral length and elevation, and where the well is perforated and in what. All perforations and tops opens both lists in the popup, with Edit tops for your formation tops; see Formation tops.
• The well’s dates: permitted, spudded, plugged, completed, and its first and last production. A date that isn’t on file shows a dash.
• At the bottom: View well opens the well’s card and closes the popup. Compare puts the well in the compare tray, and stays lit while it’s there. More holds the rest:
  • Logs opens the well’s log beside the map, or the well’s card at its logs when there’s nothing to open there; see Well logs on the map. It reads None when the well has no logs on file.
  • Documents opens the well’s card at its documents: every regulatory file on record for the well.
  • Land & owners opens the land record at the well, as a right-click there does: the survey abstract and the surface owner.
  • RRC GIS opens the well in the RRC’s own map viewer, in a new tab.

To make the popup bigger or smaller, choose its size under WELL POPUP in Settings: Standard, the default, Large or Extra large. Every size shows the same facts in the same places.