LA Department of Natural Resources begins charging O&G companies for public information

If it was free before than it's a chicken shite move by West Point Honor Code Edwards. But companies already pay to import data sets like this from DrillingInfo, IHS, and others. You pay to save your Geologists time by not having to put the data in manually to a mapping software, you just have to import the data. If you don't want to pay for it, then you normally need to hire 1 or 2 Geotechs to do this work.

Again if it wasn't free before this is just another thorn in the side of O&G that are thinking about doing business in LA. Another garbage move by our great Governor.

ETA: After reading, I've had to use SONRIS on mapping oil sands in Cameron for a project before at UL. I had to put everything in manually. Seems to benefit companies if they want to pay for it and not have to cover a salary for a tech.

You can still access all of the data for free that I used.

I think this service provides a lot more in depth material that I did not use.

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companies already pay to import data sets like this from DrillingInfo, IHS, and others

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I aware of other companies selling the data sets. When it's the only option, you have to bite the bullet. I can confrim websites like Drillinginfo are way better than the Texas Railroad Commision.

However, it's just that LA's data sets leave a lot to be desired, and now they want to bill for the shitty data they have. LA rarely has any elevation data, thus leaving it up to a geotech as you said to manually enter missing data. LA is also missing bottom hole data on about half of the horizontal wells drilled in the state. Crap in, crap out and now they want to bill us for it.

After reading about this earlier today I was under the impression that the public would still be able to view the current information for free, but additional information in easier to use formats is available via subscription. Is that how you read it?

We're a small consulting firm and we use SONRIS on a daily basis. I sure hope they don't expect us to start paying for public data.

It seems like you can still access data via sonris lite and the gis system. However, those data sets are lacking in a lot of pertinent details.

This seems to apply to ROD, or Reports on Demand, that has a lot more data specific to each well.