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New York State Department of Environmental ConservationDivision of Mineral Resources

Using RBDMS to Manage Oil and Gas Activities in New York and Display Data Using the RBDMS

Wellbore Schematic Utility

Amanda TrotterGWPC Annual ForumSeptember 28, 2010


New York State has a long history of Oil and Gas development

• First gas well drilled in 1821• First regulatory laws passed 1879 (e.g.

plugging requirements)• First comprehensive regulations enacted in

1963


Introduction of computers allowed for digital record keeping

• Unix database to capture vertical well data (Lat, Long, and depth)

• Flat files made public on a nightly basis


Advent of directional drilling necessitated significant database

changes

• Enter RBDMS• Decimal Lat and Longs for top hole, bottom

hole, kickoff point• TVD and TMD• Casing and cementing information


NY has “Classic” RBDMS data structure

• SQL Server backend, MS Access front end• GWPC funded custom development of the

front end• Adapted for the Mined Land Reclamation

Program in our division


Customized Mining DB


eReport

• Yearly production is entered via .NET application, saved as XML

• Operators can link their database to an Access database

• Conversion to XML• XML files uploaded to our database

– QC checks


Keeping the public informed

• In addition to the flat file (updated nightly)• GWPC funded development for the Online

Searchable Database• Provides more data than the historic file• Many search criteria, extensive metadata available• Data can be exported into CSV, Excel spreadsheet,

and KML files– Similar application for Mining

• Oil and gas production data posted on July 1, after 6 month confidential period (yearly data).


Searchable DB


Wellbore diagram tool• Vertical wells are the well and surrounding

geology easy to visualize• Horizontal and directional wells are tricky• Ability to visualize

– Gives regulators a better idea of what is underground

– Gives public a better sense of • how a well is constructed• depth, scale and dimensions of a well• detailed geology of the area• plan view reveals the extent of the well, as well as

relationship to nearby surface features


Original Well Bore Application


Directional Well with Multiple Strings

*Production cement should not be shown to surface


Directional Well Showing Perforations

*Production cement should not be shown to surface


Vertical Well Showing Casing and Cement


Injection Well


ePermit

• Allows operators to submit their permits to drill online

• Division staff will use to evaluate APDs and issue permits


Marcellus Shale Gas Play

• WV, OH, PA and NY of great interest to Operators (MD apps)

• Differing regulatory approaches• Public Controversy surrounding Hydraulic

Fracturing practices


Hydraulic Fracturing• State Environmental Quality Review Act• The 1992 GEIS (Generic Environmental Impact

Statement– GEIS/Conventional drilling and stimulation: – up to 80,000 gallons of water

• Draft Supplemental GEIS– “Slick water” shale fracturing:– Over one million gallons of water used

• Both address proppant and additives


During scoping, NYS collected and reviewed information from:

• Other regulators (national, state, RBCs, etc)• Industry • Public• Chemical information was collected from

suppliers


Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement– High Volume (>80 thousand gallons) Hydraulic

Fracturing of Marcellus Shale and other Low Permeability Reservoirs

– 90 day public comment period– More than 13000 comments

• Approximately 5000 email campaigns• Approx 8000 unique comments


SGEIS Comment Application

• Funded by NYSERDA/GWPC• Review is ongoing


Public Comments captured into an online database application


Submit directly into the database


Categorization of Comments


Future development

• eComplete– Seen as an extension of ePermit– Less staff time spent on dataentry

• HF (Hydraulic Fracturing) module


HF module:(Potential) new data elements:

• Source water• Disposition of fluids• Product/chemical information


Questions?Amanda Trotter

[email protected]

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