What is the Carter Coordinate System?
Lacking a sufficient township and range grid system, for the location of its oil and gas wells in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The Carter Oil Company, now called EXXON, developed an informal land grid system called the Carter Coordinate System.
The Carter Coordinate System is an alphanumeric grid, based on 1-minute sections that mirrors the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which is based on latitude and longitude.
P2 Energy Solutions Appoints Chad Martin Chief Financial Officer
DENVER (January 30, 2012)-- P2 Energy Solutions, the largest independent software and services provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, announces Chad Martin as its new Chief Financial Officer.
The Roots of Jeffersonian Public Land Survey
In the infant years of the United States, the simple British system of metes and bounds was the primary method of land survey. The Colonies plotted property lines based on bounds from both natural and man-made markers. Although generally the shapes were rectangular, a bulk of the plotted land resulted in irregular shapes which eventually led to more complicated and problematical surveys.
First-Ever Land Super CAB tackles Oil and Gas Land Management Industry Issues
From cross-border land management issues to acreage analytics, the members of the first annual Land Super CAB meeting came together in late November and had an active discussion around land management issues in the oil and gas industry.