Gulf of Mexico Pressure Database (US)

Gulf of Mexico Pressure Database (US) contains pressure test data on over 1,300 wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsurface data is essential for any company engaged in deepwater exploration for two reasons: safety and cost. Identification of over-pressured formations and fracture gradients can help prevent human injury - even loss of life - and equipment drilling hazards. At the same time, given an estimated 90 percent of drilling downtime in the Gulf of Mexico stems from unpredicted formation pressure. This data enables companies to craft optimal well designs and avoid expensive downtime.

Gulf of Mexico Pressure Database (US) offers several key benefits:

• Standardized, reliable and easily accessible digital pressure data 
• Time and money savings spared from the costly use of in-house resources to source, process, interpret and store data 
• Convenient user-friendly Microsoft™ Access for well selection and Microsoft™ Excel for exporting data 
• Critical data for developing a safe drilling program, which could save millions of dollars and potentially save lives 
• A savings of 26 man-years of data sourcing, processing and re-interpretation, equating to an investment of $1.87 million assuming a flat rate of $75K/year

Gulf of Mexico Pressure Database (US) contains digital data - available in Microsoft™ Access, Excel or ASCII format, as determined by the customer - for the following concepts:

• Well header data 
• Casing and liner data 
• Fracture pressure data 
• Formation pressure data 
• Formation tops 
• Drilling comments 
• Formation water salinities 
• Drilling mud data

Data Sourcing and Validation

• Public and proprietary well records: 
  • Physical formation evaluation logs 
  • Mud logs 
  • Wireline formation test logs 
  • Logging while drilling logs
• IHS data processing and quality control entails: 
  • Interpretation and validation of test pressures 
  • Corrections for pressure units and hole temperatures 
  • Standardization of gauge depths to the vertical

Data Coverage (September 2009) 

• Deepwater 832 wells 
• Louisiana Shelf 1,398 wells 
• Texas Shelf 103 wells