The Wellbore Exploration and Location Logistic System (WELLS; formally CO2-Locate) is a living national wellbore database and tool created and maintained by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), providing access to over 6 million public wellbore records from state, federal, and tribal resources. Sourced from over 65 authoritative, but disparate resources. The WELLS products combine well data from oil, gas, underground injection, research, geothermal, geotechnical, groundwater, and other types of wells in a single, unified system. In addition to the surface location of these wells, the underlying database combines select key attributes for features such as well age, depth, and operating status. The system also provides users with references back to the 65 disparate original sources used in this unified platform.
Additional Information: The WELLS (formerly titled CO2-Locate) offers two related and published product collections: the WELLS Database and the WELLS Interactive Application. The WELLS Database contains the public wellbore data in both tabular and geospatial formats, and the WELLS Interactive Application enables visualization and access to the public wellbore records through an intuitive web-based mapping tool. Together, the WELLS resource provides a centralized, geospatial-enabled wellbore repository to support Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) initiatives from site suitability to long-term storage integrity.
The WELLS Interactive Application was designed to help users visualize, query, analyze, and download wellbore records through an intuitive web-based mapping tool. Public wellbore point data from the CO2-Locate Database (Version 1.3) is included as a layer in the Map page, called Public Wells. Additionally, a multivariate hexagon grid summarizing well density from proprietary well data, called Well Density, is included to identify data gaps between the public and proprietary well data. Filtering functionalities in the tool allow these two layers to be spatially filtered by state, county, and/or basin as well as by status, type, true vertical depth, and spud year.
Enhancements in this version of the application include the functionality to query, analyze, and download well data in the Public Wells layer. The Near Me tool can be used to search and explore wellbore data within a user-defined distance of a specified location on the map, which can also be downloaded. The Query tool allows users to query the selected or filtered wells in the Public Wells layer and export the data. For additional information on these tool functionalities, see the help documentation on the About page of the tool.
The latest version of the CO2-Locate Database is available for download here: Lucy Romeo, Isabelle Pfander, Michael Sabbatino, Maneesh Sharma, Daniel C Amrine, Jennifer Bauer, Kelly Rose, CO2-Locate, 4/5/2023, https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/co2-locate, DOI: 10.18141/1964068
Notes for Consideration: The Well Density layer provided in this application is derived from proprietary wellbore data, the records of which do not always contain values for key features (status, type, true vertical depth, or spud year). Therefore, data might not be available when layers are queried for all filter combinations. Additionally, visualizing layers and applying filters may take additional time to load (i.e., draw on the map) due to the large size of the data.
