Delineates Opportunities Using Public Eagle Ford Data By Dario H. Romero and Steven W. Poston HOUSTON-Publicly available datasets often are thought to be qualitatively insufficient to provide reasonable analyses of well and production trend characteristics. However, applying data mining techniques to public data can reveal wells and areas with potential additional economic value, including offset drilling locations and workover candidates. Public records contain both static and dynamic well data. The static information includes completion histories, locations and well property maps, while dynamic well data consist of oil, gas and water production records as a function of time. Often, public information is not utilized because pressure, porosity and permeability profiles are not included in these records to allow more sophisticated engineering analysis (such descriptive data usually are available only in individual company well files). In most cases, that leaves production rates over time as the one publicly available dataset for relating interwell quality. JANUARY 2017 75