I have been struggling with automating a map - a task that I imagine is fairly simple to accomplish (which makes it all the more frustrating):
I work for an oil & gas operating company and I have a map which I manage on a monthly basis providing operator activity in a particular oil basin. The map provides overview data about which operators are in and around our areas of operation and over time, which companies are growing or shrinking in the basin. The primary features of the map are: 1) drill spacing units (polygons), 2) well heads (points) and 3) well bores (poly-lines).
There are over 2,000 DSUs which need to be colored to portray the unit's operator (see attached).
MY PROBLEM: Both well heads and well bores have fields which describe (among other things) who operates the well, the well name and it's status (i.e. drilling, active, plugged etc.). The DSUs however do not have any fields with which I can link (or join) the other feature classes to. Initially I tried to do a spacial join of the spacing units and well heads, but there were two issues that upset the results:
1. There are some well heads that will fall outside of the polygon DSU (the horizontal bore begins on the outside edge of the polygon and goes through the polygon)
2. There are some wells that are permitted and will be drilled in the near future, however the only way to know whether its wellbore will travel through the DSU that the point resides in or the DSU adjacent to where the point resides is in the well name (not always but in most cases). For example: the point might exist in the SW corner of a DSU comprised of sections 4 and 9, which would cause the join to think that the 4&9 DSU is operated by whomever operates that encompassed well head. HOWEVER it could be that the wellbore is actually being drilled in the DSU below it, traveling through sections 18 and 21. The name of the well may indicate by saying "WellName #18-21H".
The attached close-up shows Zenergy as 1 operator and Zavanna as another. Zenergy operates the diagnal wells and zavanna the parallel wells within the yellow DSUs.
I then tried to do a spacial join of the spacing units and well bores (poly-lines) but the issue there is that some DSUs overlap and there may be 2 well bores that relate to 1 DSU and 4 well bores that relate to an overlapping DSU. Is there a many to many function?
I hope the attached photos will help in explaining further.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Best,
GillianAttachment 31730Attachment 31731
I work for an oil & gas operating company and I have a map which I manage on a monthly basis providing operator activity in a particular oil basin. The map provides overview data about which operators are in and around our areas of operation and over time, which companies are growing or shrinking in the basin. The primary features of the map are: 1) drill spacing units (polygons), 2) well heads (points) and 3) well bores (poly-lines).
There are over 2,000 DSUs which need to be colored to portray the unit's operator (see attached).
MY PROBLEM: Both well heads and well bores have fields which describe (among other things) who operates the well, the well name and it's status (i.e. drilling, active, plugged etc.). The DSUs however do not have any fields with which I can link (or join) the other feature classes to. Initially I tried to do a spacial join of the spacing units and well heads, but there were two issues that upset the results:
1. There are some well heads that will fall outside of the polygon DSU (the horizontal bore begins on the outside edge of the polygon and goes through the polygon)
2. There are some wells that are permitted and will be drilled in the near future, however the only way to know whether its wellbore will travel through the DSU that the point resides in or the DSU adjacent to where the point resides is in the well name (not always but in most cases). For example: the point might exist in the SW corner of a DSU comprised of sections 4 and 9, which would cause the join to think that the 4&9 DSU is operated by whomever operates that encompassed well head. HOWEVER it could be that the wellbore is actually being drilled in the DSU below it, traveling through sections 18 and 21. The name of the well may indicate by saying "WellName #18-21H".
The attached close-up shows Zenergy as 1 operator and Zavanna as another. Zenergy operates the diagnal wells and zavanna the parallel wells within the yellow DSUs.
I then tried to do a spacial join of the spacing units and well bores (poly-lines) but the issue there is that some DSUs overlap and there may be 2 well bores that relate to 1 DSU and 4 well bores that relate to an overlapping DSU. Is there a many to many function?
I hope the attached photos will help in explaining further.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Best,
GillianAttachment 31730Attachment 31731