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Interactive website brings technology to Osage oil

Researching oil production in the Osage just got a lot easier.

A interactive website, built by the Nation’s Environmental Resource department has compiled and mapped out nearly every oil well in the Osage. Information that used to take weeks, sometimes months, to obtain at the Bureau of Indian Affairs can now be obtained at the click of a mouse. 

“It’s the result of a very long process and a lot of hard work,” said Darin West, ENR Project Specialist II. “The site shows where all the wells are since the late 1800s, since the beginning.”

The website, http://oag.osagetribe.org/osageonline/, allows oil producers to view any plot in the Osage and note the well’s production history, as well as the companies that have leased the plot, when the well was drilled and who is currently working on it, and what type of well it was or is. The mapping system on the site allows users to see maps of well locations, roads, ownership boundaries, rivers and streams with historical data.

To date, about 60,000 well records are accessible on the site, of which 35,000 are production well records dating back to “inception of exploration on the reservation,” according to West.

“A variety of users will benefit … including the ENR department, the Osage Minerals Council, the BIA and oil and gas operators working on the Osage reservation,” West said.

The website went live Aug. 29.

The work for the website began when the Nation contracted with Coordinate Solutions to create a database that could show the natural resources of the reservation and make it into a Risk Based Data Management System. A former database system was being maintained by the University of Oklahoma but after that agreement ended nearly five years ago, the ENR took up the task that included maintaining the database and digitizing records from the BIA for the database and the website.

The risk based data management system is used by several states when managing oil and gas well data, West said. The system is also used by the Nation’s Underground Injection Control Program and is a much more user-friendly system.

The website is on the Nation’s server and can also be found by going to osagetribe.com and clicking on the Environmental and Natural Resources department’s link and clicking on Online Database Mapping. The site is free and maintained by the ENR department.

West said he is always available to help with the site and can be reached via email at dwest@osagetribe.org or (918) 287-5412. 


By

Shannon Shaw Duty


Original Publish Date: 2012-12-10 00:00:00

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  • Shannon Shaw Duty

    Title: Editor

    Email: sshaw@osagenation-nsn.gov

    Twitter: @dutyshaw

    Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community

    Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)

    Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the LION Publishers board of directors, the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, and she is also a member of the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education. She served on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) from 2013-2016 and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee from 2017-2020. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive the Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News has won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division the past five years, 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.

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Shannon Shaw Dutyhttps://osagenews.org

Title: Editor

Email: sshaw@osagenation-nsn.gov

Twitter: @dutyshaw

Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community

Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)

Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the LION Publishers board of directors, the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, and she is also a member of the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education. She served on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) from 2013-2016 and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee from 2017-2020. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive the Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News has won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division the past five years, 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.
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