The AUSTCO Data Base System: User Manual (BMR Record 1984/5)
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1. Key type should always be C for character even on numeric fields Key start is the first column of the field and key length is the number of columns within the field For example if the file is to be sorted firstly by basin then by well name the first key start and length would be 47 20 and the second would be 1 20 Table 1 has been set out to facilitate the specifications of sort keys Conventions for naming sorted files A new file is created when AUSTCO is sorted The following conventions are suggested for naming the new files Name of file Sorted on in order of priority Sad Totten AUSTCO well name and number 1 20 AUSTC1 basin and sub basin or infrabasin 47 20 well name and number 1 20 AUSTC2 basin and sub basin or infrabasin 47 20 TD date year 88 2 TD date month 86 2 TD date day 84 2 AUSTC3 TD date year 88 2 TD date month 86 2 TD date day 84 2 Adding new data Use the text editor to compile the new data into a new file with the AUSTCO format already described Add this file to AUSTCO after checking and correcting Then re sort AUSTCO Checking added data Program ASCHK has been written to check AUSTCO for possible errors such as characters appearing in columns that should be blank or oil field sizes appearing when only gas is indicated and vice versa Program ASCHK is restored with the command RP ASCHK and run with the command RU ASCHK Program ASCHK may be used wheneve2. Sydney Oil Company Ltd Target Exploration Pty Ltd Target Petroleum N L Texam Oil Corporation Tilley Timor Oil Ltd Tenneco Australia Inc Total Exploration Australia Pty Ltd Transoil N L E E Tyler Ultramar Australia Ltd Union Oil Development Corporation sometimes in association with Kern County Land Company and Australian Oil and Gas Corp Ltd United Petroleum Reserves N L Union Texas Petroleum Corporation Valve Oil Wells Vamgas N L Vamgas Ltd West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd W C and H J Walz Western Resources Ltd Westralian Oil Led Weaver Oil and Gas Corporation Australia 25 WMC Western Mining Corporation Ltd Wesminco Oil Pty Ltd WOC Westland Oil Company Ltd WOODS Woodside Oil N L Woodside Lakes Entrance Oil Company N L WPA Woods Petroleum of Australia Ltd WPD Woodside Petroleum Ltd Woodside Petroleum Development Pty Ltd WPL Winneills Pty Ltd WPO Wellington Point Oil Wells Ltd XL XL Petroleum Pty Ltd XL Petroleum NSW Pty Ltd YERBL Yerrinbool Oil Prospecting Syndicate ZANEX Zanex Ltd ZINC Zinc Corporation Ltd 26 APPENDIX III ABBREVIATIONS FOR WELL CLASSIFICATIONS NFW new field wildcat EXT extension SPT shallow pool test DPT deeper pool test NPW new pool wildcat STR stratigraphic DEV development SRV service
3. Ltd Peninsula Oil Syndicate Petrofina Pexa Oil N L Phillips Australian Oil Company Phillips Petroleum Company Phoenix Oil and Gas N L Planet Exploration Company Pty Lcd Pancontinental Petroleum Pty Ltd Pan Pacific Petroleum N L Providence Oil Pty Ltd Project Oil Exploration Lcd Pursuit OLL N L Queensland American Oil Company Queensland Coastal Oil Concessions North Queensland Oil Corporation Ltd Queensland Oil Development Company Ltd Queensland Roma Oil Ltd Roma Alicker Ltd Roma Blocks Oil Company N L Roma Dome Ltd Robson and Jarvis and Co Roma Oil Corporation South Australian Oil and Gas Corporation Pty Ltd south Australian Oil Wells Company SDO SEOS SGP SHEC SHELL SHRLN SLFAR SMART SNTOS SPP SQD STRAT STREV STRLG SUECP SUN SUNCA SYDOL TEP TEXAM TILEY TIMOR TNNCO TOTAL TRANS TYLER ULTRA UNION UPR UTEX VALVE VMGAS WAPET WCW WESTN WESTR WEVER 24 Salt Domes Oil Syndicate South East Oil Company Standard Gas Pty Ltd Signal Hill Oil Exploration Company Shell Development Australia Pty Ltd Shoreline Exploration Company Silfar Pty Ltd Silfar Oil and Gas Search Company Pty Ltd L H Smart Oil Exploration Company Pty Ltd Santos Ltd South Pacific Pty Ltd Shell Queensland Development Company Ltd Strata Oil N L John Strevens Terrigal Stirling Petroleum N L Southern Union Energy Pty Ltd Australian Sun Oil Company Ltd Sun Oil Company of California
4. N L formerly Oil Development N L and Alliance Petroleum Australia N L Australian Oil Exploration Ltd Australian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd Apex Oil N L Australian Paper Manufacturers Development Pty Ltd Australian Aquitaine Petroleum Pty Ltd Arco Australia Ltd Argonaut International Corporation Australian Roma Oil Ltd Ashburton Oil N L American Overseas Petroleum Ltd AAR Ltd Associated Australian Resources N L Associated Australian Oilfields N L Associated Freney Oil Fields N L The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Company Interstate Oil Ltd Associated Continental Petroleum N L H C Sleigh Exploration Ltd Balmoral Resources N L British Australasian Oil Syndicate Beaudesert Boring Company Beaver Exploration Australia N L Beach Petroleum N L Blacker Brady and Turner Syndicate Belford Dome Ltd BOC BOCPL BOP BOWVL BP BRDGE BRUNS BSH CABOT CAPE CCOL CENTR CITCO CLINT CNW COHO COMC COMSV CONCO CONDA CNRDA CPS CRBO CROL CRPC CRUSA DAMSN DEFE DELHI DELTA DIAMD DOME DUBBO EAGLE ENDEV ENRSC ENTPO 20 B O C of Australia Ltd Bocal Pty Ltd Barkley Oil Company Pty Ltd Boona Oil Prospecting Company Ltd Bow Valley Industries Ltd BP Petroleum Development Australia Pty Ltd Bridge Oil Ltd Bridge Oil N L Brunswick Oil N L Oberon Oil Pty Ltd Bishops Cabot Corporation Cape Range Oil N L Central Coast Oil Ltd Centralia Oil Pty Ltd Citco Australian Petroleu
5. Oil Company W J Maskell Mayfair Minerals Inc Murray Basin Oil Syndicate Mid Eastern Oil N L Mid Eastern Oil Company Ltd Meridian Oil N L Mesa Australia Ltd Magnet Metals N L Minex Inc Moage Ltd Mobil Oil Australia Ltd Murilla Oil Ltd Monarch Petroleum N L Moonie Oil Company Lcd Mackay Oil Prospecting Syndicate Mineral Oils and Water Pty Ltd Melrose Petroleum Prospecting Company Murumba Oil N L Mersey Valley Oil Company Marathon Petroleum Australia Ltd Mid Wood Exploration pty Ltd North American International Inc Nortex Australian Oils Ltd North Broken Hill Holdings Ltd Natural Gas and Oil Corporation Ltd North Star Oil Corporation NSW Oil and Gas Company N L New South Wales Oil and Gas Company Ltd Nudec Petroleum Exploration Company NWOIL OCA OCCID PENOL PETEN PEXA PHLPS PHOEN PLNET PNCON PNPAC POP PROJT PSUIT QAO QCO QOC QOD QRO RAL RBO RDL RJC ROC SAOG SAOW 23 North West Oil and Minerals Company N L Oil Company of Australia N L Australian Occidental Petroleum Inc Australian Occidental Petroleum Company Oceania Petroleum Pty Ltd Ocean Ventures Pty Ltd Offshore Oil N L Oil and Gas Investigation Ltd Oilmin N L Oil Search Ltd Orion Oil Company Oil Prospectors Ltd Otter Exploration N L Outback Oil Company N L Pacific Basin Exploration Pty Ltd Point Addis Oil Wells The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Company
6. and running SIMUL can be found near the terminal or someone in the Drawing Office may be asked for assistance Program SIMUL simulates program GRADI which was used when digitising with the old digitiser Instructions for program GRADI can be found in Documentacion for program DIGEO which is kept in the desk next to the digitiser Enter the output file name and any other information requested by the program Now enter at the terminal the title or description of the work the latitudes and longitudes of four control points such as the corners of the map boundary the map scale and the map projection Each line should begin with the character C to indicate that they are comments Then digitise the four control points The area to be studied may now be digitised Digitise in a clockwise direction Take care that no two points are very close say lt 1 mm and that the boundary does not cross itself anywhere The last digitised point need not be the same as the first because program ASBOU automatically joins the first and last points EI When the digitising is completed press the button on the cursor Finally switch off the digitiser and log off Step 2 Log on at any terminal then restore and run program DIGEO with the commands RP DIGEO and RU DIGEO This produces a new file of latitude longitude pairs The program will call for the following information the name of the file produced by program SIMUL in step 1
7. field wildcats drilled direct foreign investment portfolio foreign investment and total foreign investment The last three are adjusted by the consumer price index to give approximately constant 75 76 prices Any two of these series may be plotted within one graph grame Further series will be plotted in new graph frames two per frame Data is plotted for new field wildcats only Usage EE ASPLI 8 or RP ASPLT LO RU ASPLT 16 Input files reguired AUSTCO or a file with the same format how it is sorted is irrelevant Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input data file the required basin the required sub basin or infrabasin whether only onshore N only offshore F or all new field wildcats are to be considered the data series to be plotted The last line may be repeated idenfinitely A zero stops the program Output produced A plot on the zeta drum plotter Comments The range of years over which the data is plotted 1960 to 1983 may be altered by altering the data statement labelled 1000 in the program The range is limited to a maximum span of 25 years unless the DIMENSION statement is altered Program ASTAB Purpose To tabulate for a specified basin yearly totals of AUSTCO data Ihe yearly data tabulated are number of new field wildcats number of oil fields number of gas fields success ratio for oil fields gas fields and overall success ratio kn
8. gi Notes 1 fo enable correct sorting an extra space is inserted between well name and number when the number is a single digit 1 9 2 Abbreviations for sub basins are given in Appendix I 3 Abbreviations for companies are given in Appendix II 4 Abbreviations for well classifications are given in Appendix III USING THE AUSTCO DATA BASE SYSTEM This chapter describes how to use the data base system assuming that the user knows how to log on and log off how to handle files and how to use the text editor on BMR s HP computer system The data base system is accessible under account ALAN RESAS with security code 915 on cartridge 9 It consists of a data file called AUSTCO and twelve programs for sorting checking correcting extracting and plotting data Sorting the data file The sort program is restored with the command RP SORT 53 2 and run with the command RU SORT The program will prompt the user to enter the name of the file to be sorted AUSTCO 915 9 the name of the new sorted file eg AUSTC1 915 9 output file type size and record length 4 245 120 scratch cartridge 60 type of sort 2 maximum number of records say 4000 trace 0 key type C key start and length eg 47 20 Key type key start and length are entered for each character field on which the file is to be sorted When no more keys are to be entered press the RETURN button in response to the prompt for key type
9. keys are entered in decreasing priority A blank line is entered to signify the end of data and start of program Output files produced the sorted file Comments if this program is terminated before completion four scratch files will be left on the system They should be deleted They are SSRT 1 SRT 2 SRT A SRT B and are stored on cartridge 60 under security code 0 Program ASCHK Purpose To check the AUSTCO file for obvious errors Usage FT ASCHK B or RP ASCHK RU ASCHK Input files required AUSTCO or a file with the same format Input required from the terminal in response to prompts A name of the data file Output files produced none Output at the terminal Any record in which an error is detected is displayed on the terminal screen Up arrow symbols are displayed beneath the record to show where the suspected error or errors are Program AS120 Purpose To ensure that all records in the AUSTCO file have 120 characters To ensure that all well names and numbers conform to the convention in Note 1 of Table l To convert well depths from feet to metres Usage FT A5120 B of RP AS120 LO RU AS120 Input files required AUSTCO or a file with the same format Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input data file of AUSTCO format the name of the new file to replace the input file Output files produced A new file in the same format as AUSTCO
10. the output option use the value 2 disk output only the name of the output file its security code and cartridge number a new file to contain the latitude longitude pairs the map projection the two standard parallels for Lambert conformal conic projection the scale of the map and the latitude and longitude of each control point Step 3 Restore and run program ASBOU with the commands RP ASBOU and RU ASBOU The program will call for the input file name ie the file produced by program DIGEO in Step 2 and the output file name a new file This final file will contain the data for the wells extracted in the format of the AUSTCO file Extracting wells from a rectangular area Program ASWIN may be used to extract well data from within a rectangular area whose sides are aligned along the parallels and meridians To run ASWIN use the commands RP ASWIN and RU ASWIN and type in the name of the input file of AUSTCO format the name of the output file the minimum and maximum longitude decimal degrees and che minimum and maximum latitude positive decimal degrees southern latitude is assumed Automatic naming of basins and sub basins Program ASNAM automatically enters the name of the basin and sub basin or infrabasin for wells within a digitised boundary To run ASNAM use the commands RP ASNAM and RU ASNAM and type in the name of the input file of AUSTCO format the name of the output file the new file that w
11. to replace the old file Comments After running AS120 the old file can be replaced with the new file by deleting the old file with the command PU old file then renaming the new file to the old file with the command RN newfile old file Program ASLAM Purpose To select from the AUSTCO data file all oil or gas fields for a specitied basin sub basin and to make from these the file DATL ready for use by program LAMDA Usage FT ASLAM B or RP ASLAM LO RU ASLAM Input file required AUSTC2 or AUSTC3 Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input file if not AUSTC2 basin name sub basin or infrabasin whether oil or gas Output files produced DATL the input file to program LAMDA containing sufficient data to run LAMDA without a future assessment See the record on program LAMDA Hinde 1984 for further details about the format of this file DATL must already be present on the computer before running ASLAM Comments To prepare DATL for all oil or gas fields in Australia leave basin and sub basin blank and use AUSTC3 for the input file 12 Program SIMUL Purpose To create a file of digitised x y coordinates while operating tne digitiser located in the Drawing Office on the second floor Usage Running program SIMUL and using the digitiser is described in documentation kept near the digitiser Input files required none Input required from the terminal bef
12. Gas Drillers Ltd Gas and Fuel Exploration N L Golden Chance Syndicate General Exploration Company of Australia Pty Ltd Genoa Oil N L Geoil Ltd Getty Oil Development Company Ltd Gewerkschaft Elwerath Geelong Flow Oil Company Golden West Hydrocarbons Australian Gulf Oil Company Halliday Enterprises Pty Ltd Hartogen Energy Ltd Hartogen Exploration Pty Lcd Henry B Kelsey Hughes and Hughes Oil and Gas Harbourside Oil N L Hudbay Oil Australia Ltd Hematite Petroleum Pty Ltd R Henzell Hodinottes Home Oil Australia Ltd Houston Oil and Minerals Australia Inc Humber Barrier Reef Oils Pty Ltd Hunt Oil Company International Energy Development Corporation of Auscralia Pty Ltd International Oils Exploration N L Isis Petroleum Prospecting Syndicate International Petroleum Services Pty Ltd Interstate Oil Ltd La PIT HET T a a ee eee ee JIMBL JOHEN LAKES LETON LNNRD LOA LOL LSD LSG MAGLN MALTA MASKL MAYMN MBOS MEO MERID MESA MGNET MINEX MOAGE MOBIL MOL MONAR MOONI MOP MOW MPY MRMBA MRSYV MRTHN MWE NAI NAO NBH NGOCO NSTAR NSWOG NUDEC 22 Jimbilly Pty Ltd John Henry Resources Pty Ltd Lakes Oil Ltd Leighton Mining Lennard Oil Nels Landor Oilfields Australia Ltd Longreach Oil Ltd Longreach Oil Wells Ltd Lucky Strike Drilling Company LSG Australia Inc Magellan Petroleum Corporation Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd Magellan Petroleum NT Pty Ltd Malta
13. LAM use the commands RP ASLAM and RU ASLAM The program will prompt the user to enter the name of the file AUSTC2 by convention the basin name the sub basin and whether the resources are oil or gas At this stage LAMDA may be run to produce a summary of the data a straight line fit to the log field size versus new field wildcat well number plot and graphs of cumulative resources and cumulative number of new field discoveries To produce an assessment DATL must first be edited to include the future number of new field wildcat wells to be drilled the number of iterations and a triangular distribution for the success rate Program LAMDA is then run for a second time Extracting wells from an irregular digitised area Well data may be extracted from an irregular area if the area is digitised Three programs are required for this program SIMUL transfers numbers from the coordinate digitiser located in the Drawing Office on the second floor of the BMR building to a computer file program DIGEO converts this file into a file of latituds Ilgngitude pairs and program ASBOU uses the latter file to extract the required well data from AUSTCO or one of the sorted files and store it in a new file The steps in this procedure are as follows Step 1 Secure a map of the area to the digitising table Turn on the digitiser and set it in point mode Log on to the adjacent terminal and run program SIMUL Instructions for using the digitiser
14. ch is called AUSTCO 915 9 includes well name and number well coordinates latitude and longitude State whether onshore or offshore basin sub basin or infrabasin company classification type of well total depth date reached total depth whether oil gas or oil and gas were discovered and identified resources of oil condensate LPG and sales gas The text editor is used for adding new data correcting data and searching for specific wells A sort program already available on the HP computer is used to sort the AUSTCO file A number of FORTRAN programs have been written to carry out more involved tasks There is a program to prepare input data for LAMDA which assesses hypothetical petroleum resources Hinde 1984 Another program will select wells within an irregular digitised map boundary or within a rectangular area of known coordinates while another program provides graphical plots of yearly totals of oil and gas reserves discovered number of new field wildcats drilled and depths drilled for the area selected The next chapter describes how AUSTCO is organised ie its format Subsequent chapters describe how to use the data base system to achieve the tasks mentioned above and describe the use of the individual FORTRAN programs FORMAT OF THE AUSTCO FILE The data file containing information on Australia s petroleum wells is called AUSTCO and is stored on cartridge 9 under secu
15. d map Program ASBOU Purpose To extract from the AUSTCO data file those new field wildcats lying within a map boundary the boundary having been digitised with the digitiser located on the second floor and place them in a new file Usage FT ASBOUN B or RP ASBOU LQ RU ASBOU Input files reguired a file containing the latitudes and longitudes of the digitised boundary in the format produced by program DIGEO AUSTCO or a file with the same format Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name oi the input data file the name of the new output file the name of the file containing the digitised boundary Output files produced A file containing the new field wildcats selected from AUSTCO that lie within the digitised boundary The format of this file is exactly the same as the AUSTCO file Comments Program BPLOT can be used to check the results of ASBOU by plotting the boundary and the positions of the selected wells Program ASWIN Purpose To extract from the AUSTCO data file those new field wildcats lying within a rectangular boundary ie a four sided window aligned along parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude Usage PTS AKT H or RP ASWIN LO RU ASWIN Input files reguired AUSTCO or a tile with the same format Input reguired from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input data file the name of the new output file the minimum long
16. e Qg 5 53 BMR PORLITATISKE COXSPACIUS LENDING SECTION GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS RECORD 1984 5 RECORD THE AUSTCO DATA BASE SYSTEM USER MANUAL by ALAN L HINDE The information contained in this report has been obtained by the Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics as part of the policy of the Australian Government to assist in the exploration and development of mineral resources It may not be published in any form or used in a company prospectus or statement without the permission in writing of the Director RECORD 1984 5 THE AUSTCO DATA BASE SYSTEM USER MANUAL by ALAN L HINDE CONTENTS SUMMARY INTRODUCTION FORMAT OF THE AUSTCO FILE USING THE AUSTCO DATA BASE SYSTEM Sorting the data file Conventions for naming sorted files Adding new data Checking added data Correcting data Extracting data for input to program LAMDA Extracting wells from an irregular digitised area Extracting wells from a rectangular area Automatic naming of basins and sub basins Plotting annual totals of data Tabulating annual totals of data DESCRIPTION OF AUSTCO DATA BASE PROGRAMS Program SORT for sorting Program ASCHK for checking AUSTCO Program AS120 for ensuring equal record lengths and correct well name format and converting feet to metres Program ASLAM for preparing input to program LAMDA Program SIMUL for digitising Program DIGEO for converting digitised data to latitudes and longitudes P
17. ill replace the input file the new basin name the new sub basin or infrabasin name and the name of the file containing coordinates of the digitised boundary a file produced by program DIGEO After running the program the input file may be deleted and the output file renamed Plotting annual totals of data ASPLT may be used to plot the annual totals of oil or gas resources identified in new field discoveries annual totals of new field wildcat wells drilled or annual kilometres drilled The data are plotted for a specified basin or sub basin or if these are not specified they are plotted for the area represented by the entire file Direct foreign investment portfolio foreign investment or total foreign investment adjusted by the consumer price index to give approximately constant prices may also be plotted Any two of these data may be plotted on the same graph The program is restored and run with the commands RP ASPLT and RU ASPLT It will ask the user to enter the name of the data file the required basin and sub basin whether onshore or offshore wells or both are to be used and the type of data to be plotted one at a time A coloured pen plot is produced on the zeta drum plotter Tabulating annual totals of data Program ASTAB is used to tabulate annual totals of number of new field wildcat wells number of new field discoveries containing oil number of new field discoveries co
18. in Shelf Bonaparte Basin Exmouth Plateau Carnarvon Basin Fitzroy Trough Canning Basin Jurgurra Terrace Canning Basin Kidson Sub basin Canning Basin Kimberley Shelf Bonaparte Basin Lennard Shelf Canning Basin Londonderry High Bonaparte Basin Malita Graben Bonaparte Basin Margaret Terrace Canning Basin Peedamullah Shelf Carnarvon Basin Petrel Sub basin Bonaparte Basin Port Campbell Embayment Otway Basin Rankin Platform Carnarvon Basin Rowley Sub basin Canning Basin Sahul Platform Bonaparte Basin South of 26 degrees south Bowen Basin and overlying Surat Basin Vulcan Sub basin Bonaparte Basin Wallal Embayment Canning Basin Willara Sub basin Canning Basin ABOC ABOIL ACS AEQ AIS AMALG AMAX AMOCO AMRDA AOC AOD AOE AOG APEX APM AQUIT ARCO ARGON ARO ASBTN ASEAS ASSOC BALML BAO BBC BEA BEACH BLACR BLFRD 18 APPENDIX II ABBREVIATIONS FOR COMPANIES American Oil Company Abrolhos Oil N L Abrolhos Oil amp Investments Ltd Australia Cities Service Ltd Ampol Exploration Queensland Pty Ltd Australian Iron and Steel Ltd Amalgamated Petroleum N L Amalgamated Petroleum Exploration Pty Ltd Amax Petroleum Australia Inc Amax Petroleum Amoco Australia Exploration Company Amoco Australia Pty Ltd Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Australia Ltd Australian Oil Corporation Alliance Oil Development Australia
19. itude in decimal degrees 14 the maximum longitude in decimal degrees theminimum latitude in positive decimal degrees south the maximum latitude in positive decimal degrees south Output files produced A file containing the data for the new field wildcats taken from AUSTCO that lie within the rectangle The format of this file is exactly the same as the AUSTCO file Program BPLOT Purpose To produce a plot on the HP printer plotter of a digitised boundary and optionally of well locations A standard map projection is not produced rather the latitudes and longitudes are plotted without transformation The program is intended to be used as a visual check of the digitised boundary and well locations Usage FT BBPLOT B or RP BPLOT LO s RU BPLOT Input files required a file containing the latitudes and longitudes of the digitised boundary in the format produced by DIGEO a file in AUSTCO format containing the wells to be plotted optional Input required from the terminal in response to prompts title 40 characters XO YO X1 Y2 format 4F10 0 where XO longitude of the lower left corner of plot YO latitude of the lower left corner of plot X1 longitude of the lower right corner of plot X2 latitude of the upper left corner of plot these are in signed decimal degrees the name of the file containing the digitised boundary the name of the file containing the wells to be p
20. lotted if this is not required type RETURN only Output produced One plot on the HP printer plotter of the digitised boundary The title is plotted at the top If well locations are plotted they are represented wich symbols 15 Program ASNAM Purpose To name in the AUSTCO file the basin and sub basin or infrabasin of all wells that lie within a digitised area Usage FT ASNAME B or RP ASNAM LO RU ASNAM Input files required AUSTCO or a file with the same format a file containing the latitudes and longitudes of the digitised boundary in the format produced by DIGEO Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input data file of AUSTCO format the name of the new file to replace the input file the new basin name 4 the new sub basin name the name of the file containing the digitised boundary Output files produced A new file in the same format as AUSTCO to replace the old file Comments After running ASNAM the old file can be replaced with the new file by deleting the old file with the command PU old file then renaming the new file to the old file with the command RN new file old file Program ASPLT Purpose To plot for a specified basin yearly totals of AUSTCO data and foreign investment against year from 1960 to 1983 The data that may be plotted are oil resources gas resources number of new field wildcats kilometres of new
21. m Citco Australia Petroleum Ltd Clintons Canada Northwest Australia Oil N L Coho Exploration Pty Ltd Clarence Oil and Minerals Company N L Comserv No 779 Pty Ltd Conoco Australia Ltd Continental Oil Company of Australia Ltd Condamine Oil Ltd Conorada Petroleum Corporation Coopers Creek Mining and Exploration N L Clarence River Basin Oil Exploration Company Clarence River Oil N L Clarence River Prospecting Company Ltd Crusader Oil N L Damson Oil Australia Ltd Dome Frome Delhi Petroleum Pty Ltd Delhi International Oil Corporation Delhi Australian Petroleum Ltd Delta Oil N L Diamond Shamrock Oil Company Australia Pty Ltd Dome Oil and Minerals Syndicate N L Dubbo Oil Syndicate Eagle Corporation Ltd Endeavour Oil Company Ltd Energy Resources Inc Enterprise Oil Exploration Pty Ltd 4 Mab ud OS nib uma ESPET ESSO EXOIL FBH FLIND FMOUT FPC GASDR GASFU GCS GECAU GENOA GEOIL GETTY GEWEK GFOC GOLDN GULF HALDY HARTG HBK HGHS HBSDE HDBAY HEMAT HNL HNT HOME HOUST HUMBR HUNT IEDC INTOL PP LPs ISTOL a ht da amm Ee Uam at ee an a ih KA et ea EE 21 Eastern Petroleum Australia Ltd Esso Exploration and Production Australia Inc Exoil Oil Company Pty Ltd Exoil N T Pty Ltd Exoil NSW Pty Ltd Frome Broken Hill Company Pty Ltd Flinders Petroleum N L Farmout Drillers N L French Petroleum Company Australia Pty Ltd French Petroleum Corporation
22. ntaining gas success ratios for oil and gas the success ratio for new field discoveries km drilled and total oil and gas resources identified within new field discoveries To restore and run the program use the commands RP ASTAB and RU ASTAB u where u specifies where the output is to be sent If u 1 oru is not specified the output is sent to the screen if u 16 the output is sent to the printer The program will ask for the name of the input data file of AUSTCO format DESCRIPTION OF AUSTCO DATA BASE PROGRAMS This chapter summarises the use of each program in the AUSTCO data base system Program SORT Purpose to sort a data file on specified data fields keys Usage RP SORT 53 2 RU SORT 10 Input files reguired the data file to be sorted Input reguired from the terminal in response to prompts i the name of the file to be sorted i the name of the new file to contain the output A the type of the output file its size and record length 4 24 120 for an AUSTCO file A the scratch cartridge number 60 the type of sort 2 new file A the maximum number of records say 4000 whether a trace of the program is required 0 no l yes the type of data field on which the file is to be sorted use C for character type the starting position of the data field on which the file is to be sorted and the number of characters in the field eg 47 20 The last three lines are repeated for each key The
23. of new field wildcats drilled total oil and gas resources Data is tabulated for new field wildcats only Usage FT ASTAB B OT RP ASTAB LO RU ASTAB U where U the output device Input files required AUSTCO or a file with the same format how it is sorted is irrelevant Input required from the terminal in response to prompts the name of the input data file Output produced a table of the yearly data Comments See comments for ASPLT 17 REFERENCES HINDE A L 1984 LAMDA A computer program for estimating hypothetical petroleum resources using the creaming method Bureau of Mineral Resources Australia Record 1984 4 FORMAN D J HINDE A L and TOTTERDELL J 1984 Data file AUSTCO wells drilled for petroleum in Australia to January 1984 Bureau of Mineral Resources Australia Report 256 BMR Microform MF202 ASHMORE BARBWIRE BARROW BEAGLE BEDOUT BROOME CENTRAL CENTRAL DARWIN EXMOUTH FITZROY JURGURRA KIDSON KIMBERLEY LENNARD S5 LONDON MALITA MARGARET PEEDA PETREL PORT CA RANKIN PL ROWLEY SAHUL SOUTHERN VULCAN WALLAL WILLARA 18 APPENDIX I ABBREVIATIONS FOR SUB BASINS Ashmore Block Bonaparte Basin Barbwire Terrace Canning Basin Barrow and Dampier Sub basins Carnarvon Basin Beagle Sub basin Carnarvon Basin Bedout Sub Basin Canning Basin Broome Arch Canning Basin North of 26 degrees south Bowen Basin Central Deep Gippsland Basin Darw
24. ore digitising data requested by the program with prompts any comments to be inserted in the file denoted by the characters C at the beginning of the line Output files produced A file containing the digitised x y coordinate pairs There should be 4 pairs per line Comments This program was written by and is maintained by the Drawing Office staff It is subject to alteration by them Program DIGEO Purpose To convert x y coordinate pairs in mm obtained by digitising a map into latitude longitude pairs Usage RU LOADR or RP DIGEO REL DIGEOR END RU DIGEO For greater details on running DIGEO see the documentation kept in the desk next to the digitiser Input files reguired A file containing digitised x y coordinate pairs 4 pairs per line This file is produced during the digitising process using program SIMUL Input reguired from the terminal in response to prompts input data file name where the output is to be sent a new file and or the printer the output file name its security code and cartridge the projection of the digitised map the standard parallels if the map project is the Lambert conformal conic the scale of the digitised map the latitudes and longitudes of the four control points these are to be given as signed decimal numbers eg latitude 26 30 S is to be typed 25 5 13 Output file produced A file containing the latitudes and longitudes of the digitise
25. r additions or corrections are made to AUSTCO All the sorted versions of AUSTCO should be deleted and re created whenever changes are made Alternatively a sorted version of AUSTCO eg AUSTC1 may be altered and the other sorted files deleted and re created Correcting data Use the text editor for most corrections j Program AS120 may be used to bring each record to a length of 120 columns bring well names to a common format and convert well depths from feet to metres The format for well names is given in Note 1 of Table 1 To run AS120 use the commands RP AS120 and RU AS120 and type in the name of the input file of AUSTCO format and the name of the output file a new file that will take the place of the input file After running the program the input file may be deleted and the output file renamed Extracting data for input to program LAMDA Program LAMDA produces assessments of hypothetical undiscovered oil and gas reserves in a given basin sub basin or area The program has been documented elsewhere Hinde 1984 Input to LAMDA is a data file called DATL containing estimates of identified oil or gas resources within new field discoveries listed in order of discovery corresponding new field wildcat well names and numbers and sequence numbers and the total number of new field wildcat wells drilled in the area Data file DATL is prepared automatically from data file AUSTC2 by program ASLAM To restore and run AS
26. rity code 915 example only actual security code is confidential The file consists of records lines of data each containing 120 characters A description of the information contained in each record is given in Table 1 following Column numbers and length refer to the character positions within the record and the number of characters occupied by the relevant item respectively TABLE 1 FORMAT OF THE AUSTCO FILE Columns Length Description well name and number see Note 1 1 20 20 21 1 blank 22 23 2 latitude degrees 24 1 blank 25 26 2 latitude minutes 27 1 blank 28 29 2 latitude seconds 30 1 blank 31 33 3 longitude degrees 34 1 blank 35 36 2 longitude minutes 37 1 blank 38 39 longitude seconds 40 1 blank 41 43 3 state 44 1 blank 45 1 onshore N or offshore F 46 1 blank 47 57 11 basin see Note 2 58 66 9 sub basin or infrabasin 67 1 blank 68 72 5 company see Note 3 73 1 blank 74 76 3 classification see Note 4 77 1 blank 78 81 4 total depth Columns Length Description 82 1 units for total depth M metres F feet 83 1 blank 84 89 6 date reached total depth 90 1 blank 91 1 O oil G gas X both 92 1 blank 93 99 7 volume of identified oil resources coe 100 106 7 volume of identified condensate resources 10 9 3 107 113 7 volume of identified LPG resources 1099 114 120 7 volume of identified sales gas resources 10
27. rogram ASBOU for extracting wells within a digitised area Program ASWIN for extracting wells within a rectangular area Program BPLOT for plotting digitised boundaries and well locations Program ASNAM for naming basin and sub basin of wells within a digitised area Program ASPLT for plotting yearly totals of data in AUSTCO Program ASTAB for tabulating yearly totals of data in AUSTCO REFERENCES APPENDIX I Abbreviations for sub basins APPENDIX II Abbreviations for companies APPENDIX III Abbreviations for well classifications O XO xD x CO O0 SI OR A uU uU VI A A U N 12 13 13 SUMMARY This manual describes the AUSTCO data base system which consists of a data file and associated software The data file may be accessed directly with the text editor or the software written in FORTRAN may be used for various tasks associated with the data base These include a program to select the wells lying within a digitised map boundary a program to prepare files of data for input to the program LAMDA which is used to assess hypothetical undiscovered petroleum resources and a plotting program to produce graphs of data in AUSTCO INTRODUCTION The AUSTCO data base system Forman and others 1984 consists of a data file containing information about petroleum exploration and development wells drilled in Australia and a number of programs for carrying out tasks associated with the data base Information stored in the file whi
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