The project was conceived as a test of making play-based, public domain information available to the oil and gas industry via the internet. Continued natural gas industry interest in the Delaware Basin Morrow Formation, and feedback from petroleum explorationists, suggested the desirability of creating an internet research pool for public-domain information about the play. Morrow well production history linked to well spots on the GIS map. Users click on a well and data can be viewed or downloaded as an MS Excel file. A free downloadable plug-in allows decline curves to be plotted.
Users click on a pool boundary and basic regulatory and reservoir information can be viewed.
Bibliography of published geologic and engineering literature references pertaining to the Morrow Formation. No special software is required to access the databases because the software is resident on the web server. This method of delivery lacks the advantages of monthly updates, but it includes versions of the databases in MS Access, MS Excel, or MS Word formats. The CD-ROM is an alternative source of the data for those companies with slow modems and phone lines. University web servers fill up fast and addresses tend to change.