WhiteStar's Gulf of Mexico Digital Database is a one-stop dataset for the petroleum industry that includes comprehensive survey, well, lease, bathymetry, and cartographic coverages of Federal and State waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This highly accurate dataset is excellent for displaying well spots, lease boundaries, or pipelines and is ready to load into many popular mapping packages.

Data Source
WhiteStar's Gulf of Mexico Digital Database is collected from Minerals Management Service (MMS) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Enhancement
Using ESRI GIS technology, WhiteStar has created polygonal coverages for Federal and Texas State Water Surveys with attributes and map-friendly annotation. The resulting data can be displayed as annotated polygons, but are also optimized for well spotting and GIS queries. The Offshore Surveys for all Federal and State waters are seamless across state and onshore/offshore boundaries.

Content
Surveys: Data layers include MMS Block and MMS Area Boundaries. Tabular attributes include MMS region code, protraction number, protraction approval date, block number, area name and code, and state and county API code.

Wells: Data consists of well locations and production in the Federal portion of the Gulf of Mexico, the Texas State Waters, and the Louisiana State Waters. Each well may include the following attributes:

• Federal Offshore - API number, well name, operator, field number, spud date, surface and bottom lease number, well location, well type, bottom location, engineering data, and deviated survey information.
• Texas State Waters - (basic header information) API number, well coordinates, status number; (supplementary API well report) well name and number, operator, location, lease and gas ID number, field reservoir, lease name, permit number, completion and plug dates, and total depth.
• Louisiana State Waters - API number, well name, operator, well status, well coordinates, and total depth.

Cartography: Data include MMS planning district boundaries, field outlines, pipeline data, shipping fairways, coastline, 8g line, and 5/10-year lease boundary.

Bathymetry: Data grid is based on several million depth soundings in the Gulf of Mexico. Accuracy depends upon data density.

Format
The Gulf of Mexico Digital Database is currently available in the following formats:

Coverage
Federal Offshore, State Offshore for Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi , available by state. Alabama State Offshore coming soon.

Application
Oil and gas exploration, pipeline mapping.

Gulf of Mexico Database Map with federal and state offshore surveys,
active leases, and shipping fairways. Wells are not shown.