Who Owns Oil Rights in the Gulf of Mexico? Use this tool to find out!

This post is sourced from Extract-A-Fact

Always on the lookout for interesting data, I was excited when I recently came across a comprehensive trove of data on offshore production in the Gulf of
Mexico from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).The datasets at data.boem.gov
include:

• Oil production by lease
  , back to 1996
• Owners
  for every active lease, dating to the 1940s
• Characteristics
  for every active lease, including royalty rates, rent, and bid amounts
• Geospatial data
  with data for every lease block

However, because the data is interspersed between four datasets, it is downright complicated to find out which leases a company owns, what the lease
attributes are, and how much oil and gas has been produced from the lease. With that in mind, I have created an interactive map application that combines
the geographic data, the ownership data, and the production data into one easy-to-use tool.

See the full-sized map here

This map allows the user to view:

• the leases owned by some of the biggest leaseholders in the Gulf of Mexico
• which leases produced oil and/or gas in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and how much
• all the owners of a lease by percentage
• the royalty rate on the lease

I created the map using
Carto, an online platform for mapping and analysis, and used their Javascript library, Carto.js, to add custom features. I cleaned and merged the BOEM data using R into a usable format for the application. The data is hosted on the Carto website at pwypusa.carto.com ; it can be viewed and downloaded there.

Take a look at the map, hosted on our Github page at the following link: https://pwypusa.github.io/pages/gulf_explorer.html