Library

The Kansas Geological Society Library has the most complete collection of oil and gas well data for the State of Kansas and surrounding areas. Donated by industry since 1923.

Robert F. Walters Digital Geological Library has 1,885,046 digital documents and logs available. See the count by county.

Society

The Kansas Geological Society is composed of geological professionals from across the country. The Society hosts many educational lectures and social functions and maintains a library of geological data.

The Kansas Geological Society and Library is located in the Landmark Square Building, just north of the corner of Market and First Street in Wichita.

Bulletin: November - December 2013
Bulletin: September - October 2013

Next Tech Talk

Tuesday, December 17th

"Legal Issue Concerning Geologists -

Data licensing Agreements and Confidentiality Agreements"

James Kelly, Lario Oil & Gas

KGS & KGF Annual Business Meeting immediately following

Links to videos on Horizontal Drilling

wn.com/Chesapeake_Energy_hydraulic_fracturing_method

www.packersplus.com/media/html/quickfrac.html

Robert F. Walters Digital Geological Library

Version 1.3

Notice: 12/13/13

A solution to the IE Version 11 issue:

Go to "Tools"

Click "Compatibility View Settings"

In the box "Add this website" it should be: Kgslibrary.com

Click Add, then close - You should now see the list of wells and associated data in the Walters Digital Library

Notice!! Update 1:00 PM 12-4-13

IE version 11 is causing some problems with seeing the list of wells.

Updating your Adobe Flash Player and restarting your computer does not seem to help now.

We are working on a solution ASAP. In the meantime, using Mozilla Firefox as your internet browser works the best. No known issues with Mozilla. This is a free download; www.mozilla.org. Once you download Mozilla, while in that browser, go update Adobe Flash Player. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

If it's been a year since you signed the User Agreement, you will be required to sign it again. This will come up once per year.

The earlier issue with IE 8 has been resolved!

PRINTING SOLUTION: If you are having trouble printing multi-paged log downloads, try using Schlumberger's BlueView software.

Please be our guest!

You can log into the Robert F. Walters Digital Library by using guest as a username and guest as a password.

This will allow you to see the digital and paper database of the Kansas Geological Society. If you want to order from us, just give us a call at 316-265-8676.

Search Wells with News Since mm/dd/yyyy

We recently improved the performance of this feature. In the Search Wells form, you can enter a date in the "News" field. This filters the wells to include only wells that have new or updated data or documents since the date you supplied. Please give it a try and send us your suggestions.

Stitched TIFF images are now legible in Petra

We have learned that Petra uses a third-party software that does not support all major compression schemes. We are now using Group 4 compression when stitching together tiles from logs. The resulting TIFF file is legible in Petra. Please let us know if you experience any problems purchasing tiles or importing the resulting image in Petra. Thanks go out to Marjorie Noel, Kris Kennedy, Lynn Watney and Asif Iqbal for their capable and diligent work on this issue.

Get Adobe Flash Player

get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Great Tip for Previewing Images

Thanks go out to Rocky Milford for realizing this cool thing is possible. When previewing images, and enlarging the contents of the screen by holding down the Control key and rotating the mouse wheel, all open windows are affected. It is possible in FireFox to restrict the enlargement to a single window - for example, the pop-up Preview window. Doing so requires changing an obscure default preference in FireFox. Instructions are on the FAQ page.

System Requirements for the Digital Library

FireFox on Windows is the recommended browser. Adobe Flash plug-in must be installed on your browser (and a red "X" below the Search Wells form, where you expect to see a list of wells returned from your search, indicates Flash is missing). A PDF reader such as Adobe Reader is required if you wish to view documents in PDF format. (Flash and Adobe Reader can be downloaded for free from Adobe's website.) Software that can read TIF files, such as IrfanView or PhotoShop, is required if you wish to view documents in TIF format. A screen resolution of 1024 pixels wide or higher is recommended. You can change the screen resolution in Windows at Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings (use the slider). Internet Explorer 7 has a known bug that is best dealt with by upgrading to a newer version. Internet Explorer 8 may request to be run in "compatability mode" which you may accept. On 64-bit machines, the software must be run in a 32-bit browser because Flash does not yet support 64-bit.