WVGES Interactive Mapping

Interactive Mapping

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in Netscape:
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Screen Resolution:

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Considerations:

You may wish to consider downloading and installing these free applications for viewing linked data via our maps. The following links are non-WVGES and registration may be required before download.

Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader for reading PDF files (e.g., documents, charts).
AlternaTIFF or Brava!®Reader for viewing TIFF images (e.g., mine maps, well logs) within a web browser. Download the ones appropriate for either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Of course, you may wish to use your own favorite PDF/TIFF application, outside of your web browser.

Oil and Gas Maps ♦ Coal Maps ♦ Miscellaneous Maps

Oil and Gas Maps

Featuring both West Virginia and regional (WV with contiguous states) oil and gas maps.

West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas

Image of the West Virginia Oil and Gas Map application

button to get further information about the mapping application

image of the 2009 WV OIT Tech Award

This project is the winner of the
West Virginia
State Office of Technology
2009 Information Technology Award
in the
Government to Business
category.
Read further information.

West Virginia Map

More than 145,000 oil and natural gas well locations and data.

This map features:

Links from oil and gas well points to extensive well information via WVGES' "Pipeline" and "Pipeline-Plus" applications.
Ability to extract data to an MS Excel spreadsheet via the inquiry (I) tools .
Data updated periodically.

Appalachian Basin Tight Gas Plays

Image of the Appalachian Tight Gas application

image of the 2009 WV OIT Tech Award

This project is the winner of the
West Virginia
State Office of Technology
2009 Information Technology Award
in the
Collaboration Across Boundaries
category.
Read further information.

Regional Map

An Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium (AONGRC) Project.

Play-based maps featuring six tight gas plays for the states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania:

Berea/Murrysville
Venango
Bradford
Elk
Tuscarora
Medina/"Clinton"

This map features:

Data and digitized maps from The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays
Oil and gas data updated monthly.
Ability to extract shapefiles of vector data.

Geology of the Marcellus Shale

Image of the Marcellus Shale Map application

NEW - Updated!

Marcellus well locations and data added.

West Virginia Map

Map featuring geologic information about this Devonian shale unit in West Virginia, of current exploratory and development interest for gas resources in the Appalachian basin.

This map features:

Marcellus wells
Onondaga structure
Hamilton isopach (lines and polygons)
Marcellus outcrop
Tax district and topographic map base layers

Regional Geology of the Ordovician Trenton-Black River Formations

Image of the Trenton-Black River Project Map application

Regional Map

An Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium (AONGRC) Project, featuring a basin-wide research effort on these Ordovician plays.

An integrated, multi-faceted, resource-assessment model of Trenton-Black River reservoirs in New York, Ohio and West Virginia.
An integrated structural-diagenetic-stratigraphic model for the origin of Trenton-Black River hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs.

Selected Appalachian Region Oil and Gas Wells

Image of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) application

Regional Map

A Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) Project.

This map allows users to display selected historic and recent Trenton-Black River, coal bed methane, and non-vertical wells for the Appalachian Basin. An update of data/layers is planned.

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Coal Maps

All Mining Map

West Virginia Map

Upgraded to Beta 2.0!

View general information pertaining to all underground, surface, auger and highwall mining within the state.

This map features:

New! Ability to first zoom in by 7.5' quadrangle in addition to county.
New! Inquiry results now have hyperlinks to view a more detailed IMS showing all coal features.
New! Fixed extraction bug in mining layers.
New! Added Highways reference layer.
New! Better colors for the Highwall and Auger Mining layers.
Data updated periodically.
Ability to initially zoom to county level.
Reference layers utilizing mosaicked 2006 SAMB Orthophotos.

Coal Bed Mapping Project Maps

Image of the Pittsburgh Coal Bed Map application

West Virginia Map

More than 60 coal beds arranged in stratigraphic order—5 formations and 3 groups.

These maps feature:

Links from mining layers to downloadable mine map images.
Total, percent parting and net coal thickness polygons.
Polygons of underground and surface mining activity.
Ability to extract shapefiles of vector data.
Data updated periodically.

Pocahontas Formation Combined Maps

Image of the Pocahontas Coal Beds Map application

West Virginia Map

A prototype for all-formation based coal bed mapping.

This map features:

Ability to "mix and match" other coal seam information within a specific formation.
Ability to extract shapefiles of vector data.
Data updated periodically.
Other all-formation based maps to follow!

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Miscellaneous Maps

Topographic Map Index

Image of the Topographic Map application

West Virginia Map

Use this map to find and order paper topographic maps.

7.5 Minute Quadrangles
15 Minute Quadrangles
30 X 60 Minute Quadrangles
1° X 2° Quadrangles

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Page last revised: December 11, 2009

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Page created and maintained by:
            West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
  Address:  Mont Chateau Research Center
            1 Mont Chateau Road
            Morgantown, WV  26508-8079
Telephone:  304-594-2331
      FAX:  304-594-2575
    Hours:  8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday - Friday

Permission to reproduce this material is granted if acknowledgment is given to the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey.