William - I think the only place you will get well data is from the operating companies. If you are looking for Norway and Alaska then BP is your best bet. This is the sort of data they may release but the problem will be finding someone with the time to deal with the request - which will involve getting many bits of paper signed - and they are all pretty busy right now.

Alternatively the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and the UK Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR - formerly DTI) may hold these records that they may release:

http://www.npd.no/English/Frontpage.htm
http://www.berr.gov.uk/energy/index.html

Norway and the UK:

http://graphoilogy.blogspot.com/2006/05/some-detailed-views-on-norways-o...
http://graphoilogy.blogspot.com/2006/06/some-detailed-views-on-uks-oil.html

For Alaska try:

http://www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us/oil/links/links.htm

"Drilling a little deeper" try:

http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/ADMIN/ogc/homeogc.shtml

and:

http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/ADMIN/ogc/production/pindex.shtml

For the UK North Sea and Onshore try:

http://www.og.dti.gov.uk/pprs/full_production.htm

and for Norway try:

http://www.npd.no/English/frontpage.htm

Hope this helps as a starting point. A couple of years ago, I went down to the well level (Alaska data required ARCGIS at the time) and I know you can get down to the well level on the UK site (you merely have to pick one of the listed oil fields. I haven't done a lot with the Norwegian data beyond the field level data.

Good luck and let us know if we can help any further

ST

In the US all companies must report their production to the state and federal government. Therefore, this data is all public. Most states with significant production have websites where you might find this data. Some states sites are far better than others. I have never looked for Alaska data. Wyoming has a particularly good website at http://wogcc.state.wy.us/.

At this site you can find data on individual fields and wells, but I am not sure about the entire state. The one problem is that the digital data available on the website only goes back to 1978 and most of the larger fields in the state were discovered, brought on production, and had peak production long before then. One fairly interesting field that I am aware of that was discovered after 1978 was Sand Dunes. This is a deep strat trap field which is why it was discovered later. It was developed with miscible gas injection. That is why the production was curtailed in the early 1990's. They had to shut-in significant production until it was unitized and pressure maintenance was initiated.

There are also private companies that compile all the public data and sell it. The biggest one is probably IHS, but of course they charge for the service.

Good luck,

i'm helping my son do a paper on peak oil and would like to show hubbert's bell curve for 1.) individual wells; 2.) individual fields; 3.) individual oi producing nations.

I hope that he has about 1,000 hours to devote to the paper so that he can do decent, but cursory, job.