Utilizing the Resource

Have you ever wanted to know who was drilling in your back yard of Colorado? The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a division of the department of natural resources, is a great resource to access public information about oil and gas in Colorado.  The COGCC has databases full of information from permitting wells to drilling locations to maps and forms.  They are a resource that any petroleum engineer or petroleum geologist needs to utilize. 

One of the more useful aspect of their site for a petroleum geologist is there map interface.  This interface allows you to see well surface locations, directional well bottom hole locations, other oil and gas facility locations, oil and gas permit location, oil and gas field polygons, and wild life habitat maps.  From this a petroleum geologist can select a well location which does not affect a possible wild life habitat or any other restricted area for drilling.