Abstract

Staking of new well locations is an important part of developing oil and gas fields. Locations are proposed on hard copy of geological maps where the facility of creating / editing of a soft copy of the map is not available. To achieve high accuracy in transferring the location from the map to the ground and viceversa, various software packages have been developed in-house and are integrated with Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). The adopted new methodology minimizes the development / exploration risks that might be caused due to positioning errors. How ever this methodoloty is highly userful where work-stataion or similar facilities are not avaible.