Introduction

About

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Record Digitizer, or OGRRE, was created as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Consortium Advancing Technology for Assessment of Lost Oil & Gas Wells (CATALOG), a collaborative effort between NETL, LANL, SNL, and LLNL.

The co-authors of the OGRRE software are: Dan Gunter (LBNL), Michael Pesce (LBNL), Rajshree Deshmukh (LBNL), Greg Lackey (NETL), Benjamin Houghton (NETL), Jacob Shay (NETL), Nathan D. Webb (ISGS), Chester J. Weiss (SNL), David Buttler (LLNL), and Martin Ma (LANL)

Motivation

Details describing the construction and use history of all wells in the U.S. are missing from most public and proprietary well databases. Most well information is not digital. This hinders well plugging planning, understanding historic practices, and well characterization efforts.

To address these challenges, OGRRE uses OCR and LLM models for rapid data extraction from records.

Using OGRRE

Currently, OGRRE is being used in tandem with close collaboration with the joint LBNL and NETL team. For those working with this team already, please see the Usage sections.