Prospects Made, Vetted, sometimes Disproved: 

Stories that tell the value of that one obscure data point.
 

A key core report of  oil saturated reservoir rock downdip proved prospect and significant field extension.

Library Historic Map and Production data saved Operator's Lease.

A recompletion scout card with accurate depth reports killed the prospect, but saved a drilling budget.

Did your Digital Data provider pick up the replacement completion, not just recompletion, report?

Driller's Logs and original scouts reports have data not fully captured in digital migration.

Have you cross checked your single source key info?

Legacy Data can be used to ask and answer questions that were not contemplated when the data was collected.

"Legacy Cards are THE best source of completion data, DST and testing data"  Current Library Member

OIL Library History

The Oil Information Library of Ft. Worth opened its doors in 1985, creating a service center to the Oil and Gas community for housing hard data donated by majors, independents, and individuals for Texas and the surrounding states.  
Starting with Microfiche Log purchase from MJ and Texas Scout cards from UPR, specifically the Champlin Collection, and with the efforts of Clayton Valder, Wayne Mudd, Dan Murphy, Dennis Browing, Keith Davis and with Stuart Strife and Connie Hildebrand of UPR, and many Ft. Worth oil industry champions, the Library has grown in donations, and data, providing a robust set of Scout Cards, Microfiche electric logs, drillers logs, and maps, as well as published and gathered field studies, engineering and geological texts and treatises.  
The Oil Information Library doors have remained open since then and provide a unique body of oil and gas drilling and completion data, in particularly valuable, as individual companies merged, and scout reporting companies and collections have bought up and recreated digitally.
The Library is a first source for Geological research, and an ultimate source for running down that hard- to-find, old completion or wellbore information for your Prospect.   

OIL Today
2022 welcomes our new librarian, Debbie Fierros. With great commitment and effort, OIL FW has been able to keep the doors open, take in multiple and extensive collections, and provide research to its members.

Cover all your bases through your research at the Oil Information Library of Fort Worth