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Oil and Gas Well Electronic Data Format

Format of definitions list: FIELD NAME (Type), Start Column, Number of columns, Notes

Data types

  1. RECNO (N), 001, 07, KGS unique identifier
  2. PERMIT (A), 008, 07, Assigned by Dept. Mines ∓ Mins.
  3. OPERATOR (T), 015, 32, Owner of right to drill well
  4. WELLNO (T), 047, 06, Assigned by operator
  5. FARMNAME (T), 053, 32, Farm or lease name
  6. COUNTY (C), 085, 12, Kentucky county name
  7. NSFEET (N), 097, 04, Footage from north or south line
  8. NORS (C), 101, 03, "FNL" (from north line) or "FSL" (from south line)
  9. EWFEET (N), 104, 04, Footage from east or west line
  10. EORW (C), 108, 03, "FEL" (from east line) or "FWL" (from west line)
  11. SECTION (N), 111, 02, Carter coordinate 1-min. section
  12. LETTER (C), 113, 02, Carter coordinate 5-min. letter
  13. NUMBER (N), 115, 02, Carter coordinate 5-min. number
  14. ELEV (N), 117, 05, Ground level elevation of well
  15. TD (N), 122, 05, Total depth of well
  16. TDFM (A), 127, 08, Formation penetrated at the total depth
  17. WODD (C), 135, 04, Work over or drilled deeper
  18. CLASS (C), 139, 04, Exploratory/development class
  19. RESULT (C), 143, 03, Type of completion
  20. PLUGGED (C), 146, 02, Plugged or abandoned
  21. CDATE (D), 148, 11, Date of completion of well
  22. POOL (C), 159, 20, Name of pool if any
  23. REMARKS (T), 179, 19, Whatever won't fit in production
  24. GAUGE1 (A), 198, 11, Initial potential
  25. TOP1 (N), 209, 05, Top of completion interval
  26. BOTTOM1 (N), 214, 05, Bottom of completion interval
  27. PAY1 (A), 219, 08, Name of pay formation
  28. GAUGE2 (A), 227, 11, Initial potential
  29. TOP2 (N), 238, 05, Top of completion interval
  30. BOTTOM2 (N), 243, 05, Bottom of completion interval
  31. PAY2 (A), 248, 08, Name of pay formation
  32. GAUGE3 (A), 256, 11, Initial potential
  33. TOP3 (N), 267, 05, Top of completion interval
  34. BOTTOM3 (N), 272, 05, Bottom of completion interval
  35. PAY3 (A), 277, 08, Name of pay formation
  36. ELOGS (T), 285, 20, List of wireline logs on file
  37. TOPO (T), 305, 30, USGS 7.5-min., 1:24,000 topo
Brandon C. Nuttall / E-mail to BNUTTALL@KGS.MM.UKY.EDU / last modified 21-Sep-1998