Oil and Gas Field Locations for Map Products

Oil and Gas Fields (DMIRS-089) provides point locations of oil and gas fields for cartographic display. The dataset is maintained by the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Generate thematic maps for resource management using the point location data.
• Integrate field location points into GIS platforms for spatial analysis.
• Serve field location data via web services (WMS, WFS) for interactive applications.

Strengths

• Maintained by a government regulatory department (Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety).
• Offered in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, WFS, WMS).
• Published under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license.

Limitations

• No row count or sample data is available to assess dataset scale.
• The description lacks details on specific attributes (columns) for each field point.
• The 'last updated' date is projected into the future (2026), indicating potential metadata inaccuracy.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS)

Collection Method

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