AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Thermal Maturity Patterns CAI and Ro in the Ordovician and Devonian Rocks of the Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania

 The objective of this study is to enhance existing thermal maturity maps in Pennsylvania by establishing: 1) new subsurface CAI data points for the Ordovician and Devonian and 2) new %Ro and Rock Eval subsurface data points for Middle and Upper Devonian black shale units. Thermal maturity values for the Ordovician and Devonian strata are of major interest because they contain the source rocks for most of the oil and natural gas resources in the basin. Thermal maturity patterns of the Middle Ordovician Trenton Group are evaluated here because they closely approximate those of the overlying Ordovician Utica Shale that is believed to be the source rock for the regional oil and gas accumulation in Lower Silurian sandstones (Ryder and others, 1998) and for natural gas fields in fractured dolomite reservoirs of the Ordovician Black River-Trenton Limestones. Improved CAI-based thermal maturity maps of the Ordovician are important to identify areas of optimum gas generation from the Utica Shale and to provide constraints for interpreting the origin of oil and gas in the Lower Silurian regional accumulation and Ordovician Black River-Trenton fields. Thermal maturity maps of the Devonian will better constrain burial history-petroleum generation models of the Utica Shale, as well as place limitations on the origin of regional oil and gas accumulations in Upper Devonian sandstone and Middle to Upper Devonian black shale.  

Tags: Appalachian Basin, Devonian, Geology, Ordovician, Pennsylvania, Thermal maturity, conodont color
Topographic and Bathymetric Shaded Relief of North America

 Topographic shaded relief shows the land surface, while bathymetric shaded relief shows underwater terrain. The Topographic and Bathymetric Shaded Relief of North America image was created by combining separate shaded-relief images of land and bathymetry. The land areas came from the National Atlas Color North America Shaded Relief - 1 Kilometer Resolution image, which was derived from GTOPO30 elevation data. The bathymetry came from the National Atlas Bathymetric Shaded Relief of North America image, which was derived from ETOPO2 2-minute data. This image was produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.  

Tags: Bathymetric, Geographic, North America, Shaded Relief, Topographic, USGS
WV Coal Fields

  This data set was extracted from an original set that shows the coal fields of Alaska and the conterminous United States. Most of the material for the conterminous United States was collected from James Trumbull's "Coal Fields of the United States, Conterminous United States" map (sheet 1, 1960). The Gulf Coast region was updated using generalized, coal-bearing geology obtained from State geologic maps. The Alaska coal fields were collected from Farrell Barnes's "Coal Fields of the United States, Alaska" map (sheet 2, 1961). (National Atlas of the United States, 2002) Purpose: These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the National level, and for large regional areas. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:5,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data.    Shapefiles were obtained from the National Atlas of the United States web site. See the Full Metadata page for process step information pertaining to the creation of the original data.  

Tags: Coal, Energy Infrastructure, Geographic, Resource, WV, West Virginia, coal fields
Precedent Agreements A Delicate Dance Between Builders and Shippers

 The proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline projects are engaged in the "precedent agreement" phase of development.   A pipeline developer that has signed enough precedent agreements with enough shippers for enough of its pipeline capacity holds strong evidence that the market is willing to pay for the project. The developer then can seek formal government permission to build the pipeline and go to financial markets for construction financing - two steps usually needed before construction can begin.  

Tags: Alaska, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper, agreements, builders, gas, pipelines, shipping
New York Marcellus Shale Well Location Data

 The Division of Mineral Resources maintains computerized information on almost 40,000 wells. The majority of this information and data is available on-line through the Oil and Gas Searchable Database. This system provides information on well ownership, well owners and operators, registered driller, pluggers and companies that provide financial security instruments. Information on well production as wells as commencement of operations, locations, depths. Downloads from this system should be limited to roughly 800 records. If you attempt to download the entire database the system will time out. Standard report including registered operators, pluggers and drillers are available as wells a popular 90 look back on issued drilling permits.  

Tags: Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas, New York, Oil, Resource, Well location, gas, oil, resources
Pipeline Project Would get Multimillion-Dollar Environmental Review

 A multimillion-dollar effort is moving ahead to understand how the proposed Alaska gas pipeline project would change the physical, economic, social and cultural environments along the line's path through the state.   The Federal Energy Regulatory Commissionis leading the environmental review of the $32 billion to $41 billion project that would pipe 4.5 billion cubic feet a day of North Slope natural gas through Canada to the Lower 48.  

Tags: Alaska, Canada, Environmental Review, Lower 48, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper, gas, pipelines
The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays

 Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and compiled primarily by partners of the Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium (state geological surveys of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and the University of West Virginia), The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays provides a comprehensive description of 30 major gas plays in the Appalachian Basin. A companion digital database containing geologic and engineering data on gas fields and reservoirs within each play also is available. The atlas contains hundreds of illustrations depicting stratigraphy, structure, geophysical profiles, and reservoir and production information for all major fields and pools.  

Tags: Appalachia, Geology, OH, Ohio, atlas, gas plays, major gas plays
Monongahela National Forest Datasets

 The following datasets are available:    Proclamation Boundary, 2009.     Surface Ownership, 2009.     Ranger Districts, 2007.    Wilderness Areas, 2009.     Management Prescriptions, 2009.     Range Allotments, 2009.     Scenic Areas, 2003.     Recreation Areas, 2003.     Recreation Sites, 2009.     Trails, 2009.     Roads, 2009.    Historical Map, 1920.    Historical Map, 1992.   

Tags: Boundaries, Boundary, Geographic, Land Classification, MNF, Monongahela, Monongahela National Forest, WV, West Virginia, forestry, land classification
Earthquake Hazards Program

 The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program is a major element of the four-agency National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), established by Congress in 1977. The USGS responsibilities within NEHRP include earthquake monitoring and notification, earthquake impact and hazard assessments, and targeted research on earthquake causes and effects.  

Tags: Geophysics, Seismic, earthquakes, geophysics, hazards, seismic
WV SAMB Building Points and Polygons

 These datasets contain points and polygons (of buildings over a certain size) of all buildings in West Virginia. The data was collected from 2003 natural color orthophotography by the WV Statewide Addressing and Mapping Board. These datasets contain all buildings, regardless of occupancy status. This data has never been validated.   These data were originally published as two separate shapefiles, north and south, in WV State Plane projection. Upon receipt of the data, the West Virginia GIS Technical Center reprojected the datasets to UTM NAD83 Zone 17 North and merged the north and south shapefiles into one, statewide dataset.  

Tags: Geographic, SAMB, WV, West Virginia, buildings
Federal Loan Guarantee Helps Pipelines Finances

 A federal loan guarantee authorized for the Alaska gas pipeline is intended to help smooth the path forward for what could be the world's most expensive private project ever.   The guarantee joins other measures in federal law designed to ease the project ahead and lower its capital costs. The other measures include putting a key regulator on a timetable to act, accelerating the pipeline depreciation for tax savings, restricting court challenges of the project, and allowing tax credits for a massive gas treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay.  

Tags: Alaska, Federal Loan, Natural Gas, Prudhoe Bay, Resource, White Paper, expensive, gas, pipelines
The United States 2012 Carbon Utilization and Storage Atlas

The United States Carbon Utilization and Storage Atlas contains four main sections: (1) Introduction;
(2) National Perspectives; (3) Regional Perspectives (RCSPs); and (4) ARRA Site Characterization
Projects. The Introduction section contains an overview of CCUS technologies, a summary of
DOE’s Carbon Storage Program, a brief description of the RCSP Program, and information on the
National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographic Information System (NATCARB). The
National Perspectives section contains maps showing the number, location, and magnitude of
CO2 stationary sources in the United States, as well as the areal extent and estimated CO2 storage
resource available in geologic formations evaluated within the RCSP regions. The Regional
Perspectives section includes a detailed presentation of CO2 stationary sources, CO2 storage
resource assessments, updates on field projects, and additional information key to each RCSP.
Finally, the ARRA Site Characterization Projects section includes a detailed background of
each project, its objectives, and a status update.

Tags: Atlas, CO2, Coal, Gas, Geology, NATCARB, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil and Gas, Resource, Saline, Saline Aquifiers, Shale Gas, Types, carbon storage
Ports and Waterway Facilities

 The Navigation Data Center maintained by US Army Corps of Engineers containsover 40,000 port-and-waterway facilities and other navigation points of interest. The data describe the physical and inter-modal (infrastructure) characteristics of the coastal, Great Lakes, and inland ports of the United States. Data are also included for facilities in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the trust territories of the Pacific. The port-and-waterway facilities have been converted to a point shapefile for use.  

Tags: Harbors, Marine, Marine Man Made Features, Marine Transportation, Ports, Waterway Facilities, shipping
Can Gas-to-Liquids Technology get Traction

 The plunge of U.S. natural gas prices since 2010 has undermined the coal industry, roused the nation's petrochemical companies and begun transforming the power-generation business.   But could low prices also jump-start a niche industry called gas to liquids, or GTL that for nearly a century has struggled to establish a foothold in the world of fossil fuels?  

Tags: Gas-to-Liquid, LNG, Liquified Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper
Gas Pipeline Project Would Boost Alaska Economy but Less than 1970s Oil Line

 Building a major pipeline to carry stranded North Slope natural gas to market would boost the number of jobs and wealth in Alaska. But the impact would be muted compared to the economic upheaval from building the trans-Alaska oil pipeline 35 years ago.   That's a key conclusion of a draft economic analysis,prepared by the gas line project developer and released Jan. 13, that forecasts how life in Alaska would change if the proposed $32 billion to $41 billion pipeline from the North Slope to Alberta gets built.  

Tags: Alaska, Economy, Liquified Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Resource, White Paper, economic boost, economic impact, gas, pipelines, state revenue
New Imaging Gives Close-up Look at Gas Pipeline Corridors

 During late spring 2011, two small airplanes flew dozens of sorties over key transportation corridors bisecting Alaska.   Seated in the back of each plane was a technician, surely with an iron-lined stomach and extraordinary sense of equilibrium, enduring the pitching, rolling and yawing while the pilot maintained a nearly constant altitude above terrain that is anything but constant.   Like bombardiers dropping payloads on air-raid targets, the technicians released millions of laser pulses from the planes' bellies, pelting the ground and capturing the pulses' echoes.   The entire mission involved a relatively new technology called lidar. It was part of a multiagency effort to understand, map and put into the public realm the precise landscape a North Slope natural gas pipeline would cross.   The data gathered trillions of bytes of data is now getting posted on a state of Alaska website.And state geologists and geophysicists who commissioned the lidar research their first foray into the technology are now getting an extraordinary look at the Earth's surface in a swath of Alaska never before detailed in such sharp relief.  

Tags: Aerial Imagery, Alaska, Energy Infrastructure, Geographic, Imagery, LiDAR, Natural Gas, Oil and Gas, Resource, White Paper, gas, imagery, pipelines
National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project Devonian Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin Province 067 Assessment Units

 The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown here as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary. In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.  

Tags: Appalachian Basin, Assessment Unit, Devonain, Energy Resources, Geology, Marcellus, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Shale, Resource, Resource Assessment, Shale Gas, USGS World Energy Region 4
Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice Covered Waters

 Goals & Objectives   The objective of this project is to identify programs and   research and development projects that improve the ability   of responders to deal with accidental oil spills in fresh or   salt-water marine environments where there is ice. This   includes spills that occur on top of or underneath solid,   stable ice extending out from shore (land-fast), into an   area of drifting ice floes (pack ice), or onto an ice-covered   shoreline.   Oil spills in ice are a subject of great concern to corporations,   local residents, and government agencies participating   in oil exploration, production, and transportation.   Currently, areas that are of special concern are Cook Inlet,   the Beaufort Sea (including the North Slope of Alaska),   Sakhalin Island offshore, and the Norwegian Barents,   Baltic, and Caspian seas. As reserves are depleted in more   accessible areas, cold frontier regions will increasingly   receive attention in the areas of exploration and production.   In most areas of the world, the greatest need is to   develop a credible and effective response to oil that has   been spilled in moving, broken pack ice in the ocean,   lakes or rivers. Practical response strategies are, in most   cases, already available to deal with spills in a stable,   fast-ice environment. A notable exception involves the   lack of operational tools to detect or map oil in any ice type.  

Tags: Marine, NEBA, Net Environmental Benefit Analysis, Oil, Resource, White Paper, accidental spills, arctic, ice-covered waters, oil, oil-in-ice, response, salt water marine environments, soil drops, spill
Thermal Maturity Patterns CAI and Ro in Upper Ordovician and Devonian Rocks of the Appalachian Basin A Major Revision of USGS Map I–917–E Using New Subsurface Collections

 The conodont color alteration index (CAI) introduced by Epstein and others (1977) and Harris and others (1978) is an important criterion for estimating the thermal maturity of Ordovician to Mississippian rocks in the Appalachian basin. Consequently, the CAI isograd maps of Harris and others (1978) are commonly used by geologists to characterize the thermal and burial history of the Appalachian basin and to better understand the origin and distribution of oil and gas resources in the basin. The main objectives of our report are to present new CAI isograd maps for Ordovician and Devonian rocks in the Appalachian basin and to interpret the geologic and petroleum resource implications of these maps. The CAI isograd maps presented herein complement, and in some areas replace, the CAI-based isograd maps of Harris and others (1978) for the Appalachian basin. The CAI data presented in this report were derived almost entirely from subsurface samples, whereas the CAI data used by Harris and others (1978) were derived almost entirely from outcrop samples. Because of the different sampling methods, there is little geographic overlap of the two data sets. The new data set is mostly from the Allegheny Plateau structural province and most of the data set of Harris and others (1978) is from the Valley and Ridge structural province, east of the Allegheny structural front (fig. 1).  

Tags: Appalachian Basin, Geology, Mississippian, Ordovician, Thermal maturity, conodont color, isograds
Petroleum geology and geochemistry of the Council Run gas field, north central Pennsylvania

The Council Run field of north central Pennsylvania is one of the most productive natural gas fields in the central Appalachian basin. The field is enigmatic because of its position near the eastern edge of the Appalachian Plateau, where strata with reservoir potential elsewhere have low porosities and permeabilities or are poorly sealed. Council Run has four principal reservoir sandstones. The lower three occur in a distinct fourth-order type 1 stratigraphic sequence. The stacking pattern of sandstones in this sequence defines lowstand, transgressive, and highstand systems tracts. Core, well-log, and map interpretations reveal that the lowest interval consists of multiple coarsening-upward parasequences deposited in deltaic and nearshore environments of the lowstand systems tract during a forced regression. Most of these sandstones are lithic, and some are highly feldspathic. Productive sandstones display
hybrid void textures that consist of reduced primary intergranular pores preserved, in part, by relatively early petroleum emplacement and secondary oversized fabric-selective pores. The generative potential of the organic matter in the potential source rocks is exhausted, but geochemical and petrographic evidences indicate that these black shales originally contained oil-prone kerogens and generated liquid hydrocarbons. Stable isotope geochemistry suggests that gases were generated by primary cracking of kerogens and/or by secondary cracking of oil between 320 and 290 Ma. Dispersive migration paths were both lateral and vertical because of compression associated with Alleghanian orogenesis. Most of the oil in the Devonian section was cracked to gas during deeper
burial between 270 and 240 Ma.

Tags: Appalachian Basin, Geology, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Petroleum
West Virginia Geology - Canaan Valley Bedrock Maps

From the site: "Bedrock geology [map] . . . Created by the WV Geological and Economic Survey (WVGES) in 1999 as part of their ongoing statewide digital geologic mapping project. Refer to the Word document (cvgisgeo.doc) for a brief explanation of the GIS coverages."

Tags: Geology, bedrock, canaan valley, data, download, geology, gis, map, west virginia
Geologic Atlas: Mercersburg-Chambersburg folio, Pennsylvania

From the site: “The Geologic Atlas of the United States is a set of 227 folios published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1894 and 1945. Each folio includes both topographic and geologic maps for each quad represented in that folio, as well as description of the basic and economic geology of the area. The Geologic Atlas collection is maintained by the Map & GIS Library.
The repository interface with integrated Yahoo! Maps was developed by the Digital Initiatives -- Research & Technology group within the TAMU Libraries using the Manakin interface framework on top of the DSpace digital repository software.

Additional files of each map are available for download for use in GIS or Google Earth. A tutorial is provided which describes how to download theses files.”


Tags: Chambersburg, Geologic Atlas, Geology, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, data, download, geology, gis, kmz, repository, usgs
Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios for selected sites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN)

From the site: "Increasingly, hydrologic studies require information on the isotopic composition of natural waters. This report presents stable hydrogen (δ2H) and oxygen isotope ratios (δ180) of precipitation samples from seven selected sites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN) collected during the years 1992-1994."

Tags: AIRMoN, Delaware, Fluids, Geochemistry, NOAA, New York, Northern Appalachian, Pennsylvania, Resource, Water, data, groundwater, illinois, isotope, ohio, paper, ratio, research, study, tennessee
Geothermal Investigations in West Virginia, 1982

Paper and metadata for studies regarding geothermal information and data in West Virginia. Includes location coordinates, chemical analyses, and other factors/measurements.

From the site: "Preliminary study of the potential geothermal resources and analysis of the subsurface temperatures and heat flows of West Virginia. Geothermal resources in eastern United States include (1) warm-spring systems, (2) radioactive granite plutons beneath thick sedimentary cover, and (3) deep sedimentary basins having normal temperature gradients. The Appalachian basin in West Virginia contains sedimentary rocks that are greater than 20000 ft deep; thick sections of shale and sandstone occur in these regions. These deep basins are potentially attractive geothermal resources if higher-than-normal temperature gradients are identified. Numerous warm springs in eastern West Virginia suggest that deep circulation of ground waters along faults may locally elevate wall rock temperatures in the Appalachian basin. This is a preliminary study of the potential geothermal resources and provides an analysis of the subsurface temperatures and heat flow of West Virginia."

Tags: Geothermal, Resource, appalachian basin, chemistry, coordinates, data, geothermal, paper, ratiation, resource, sedimentary basins, study, west virginia