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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,
jimb of wga (past president)?
No, different jimb I guess
thanks for all your help...
the problem with UK's production profile is that it shows 2 peaks. whereas norway's just has 1 peak and is in decline. which makes the case stronger for hubbert's peak oil. But gosh darnit! i can't find a site with norway's well produciton? any thoughts?
The interesting thing is how many more fields and how fast they fall in production in the second peak compared to the first peak (and I think it's been plotted here before. I have my own version from the UK data that I've created in Excel). One of the things about offshore fields is how fast they peak, particularly the smaller newer fields.
As for the individual well data in Norway, there probably is a way to get to it, I just can't recall how I did it in the past (or maybe I'm confusing it with the data available from the UK). I can get down to the individual well data(basics) but can't seem to find the production records (and the Norwegians are also renowned for their data and the availability of transparent records). I don't remember the maps being run in javascript.