Date of Award
5-22-2013
Document Type
Masters Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.S. in Geographic Information Science
Organizational Unit
College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Geography and the Environment
Keywords
Horizontal wells, GIS, Wattenberg Field, Weld County, Colorado, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s spacing unit regulations
Abstract
Horizontal wells are the most commonly drilled wells in the Wattenberg Field, located in Weld County, Colorado. Petroleum engineers have become interested in determining how many horizontal wells can economically be drilled per section in this vertically, well-developed field. Using the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s spacing unit regulations as a guide, a GIS workflow was developed to create the deliverables required for further analysis. Spacing units were created by applying a buffer to horizontal well surveys, and using this buffer to select intersecting quarter-quarter sections. The selected quarter-quarter sections were simplified using the dissolve tool and then spatially joined to producing wells. The resulting tabular data is exported, edited, and formatted for delivery to engineers for subsequent analysis.
Copyright Date
5-22-2013
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
All Rights Reserved.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Rights Holder
Tera Dillon
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
45 pgs
File Size
1.0 MB
Recommended Citation
Dillon, Tera, "Spacing Units in the Greater Wattenberg Area" (2013). Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones. 34.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/geog_ms_capstone/34