The prototype digital atlas is being designed, tested and constructed. At present the prototype covers Arroyo, Big Bow and Gentzler fields. The DPA Homepage has been expanded to include links to project information, such as progress and topical reports, and to discussions of plays, basins and geological provinces at both the national and Kansas levels. The USGS material will be supplemented with additional regional material covering the Kansas basins. Included in the discussion are maps of regions and geologic provinces, overview discussions, historical data and quick-time movies of the exploration history at national, province, basin, and play levels.
All information is linked through graphical user interfaces.
Clicking on the plus will provide links to more detailed information while clicking on the minus will show less detailed information about the selected region, province or play. Access to the Kansas DPA Homepage is through the National DPA HomePage. Improved search routines for wells and fields have been added as four buttons at the top of the page. Clicking on the other counties will take you to annual oil and gas production files. As an example a search on all fields in Kansas discovered since 1985 that had cumulative oil production greater than 500,000 barrels returned the names and summary data for 24 fields.