Abstract

GIS in Oil & Gas Land Administration
Track: Cadastral and Land Records
Authors: Soma Dasgupta, Drew Wilkie

The complexity inherent to Public ownership of real property's sub-surface minerals creates a challenging environment for the natural resource exploration and production industries to operate in. An entire Land profession has developed around the assessment, acquisition, and distribution of these ownership rights. Managing the intricacies of this enterprise requires an effective means of combining the geographic, areal representation, with the pertinent contractual database information. The challenge to identify, develop, and engineer how correlative assets (wells, pooling units, pipelines, facilities, right-of-ways), interrelate with land assets has been met effectively and efficiently with GIS. The reports and exhibits manifested from the system, and the ability to compare and contrast interdependent data simultaneously facilitates proactive, collaborative decision making. This paper examines the methods we have used at Rosetta Resources to produce a system within the ESRI Geodatabase environment in order to manage all of our pertinent Land asset information.