Virtual Scout

The DrillingInfo Virtual Scout allows you to define an area of interest, monitor activity within that area and receive automatic activity updates for that area via email. Every DrillingInfo account receives 50 Virtual Scout Areas of Interest.

You can set up an Area of Interest based on the following options:

• County or Parish

• Abstract or Section

• API #

• Lease ID, Gas ID or LUW Code

• Operator

• Lat/Long Point

• Lat/Long Line or Polygon

Your Virtual Scout will monitor the following types of activity:

• Permits

• Completions

• Pre-Permits (TX & CO)

• Leases

• Well Events (TX & LA)

• Pluggings (TX, OK, NM, LA)

• Regulatory Applications (OK )

• Mineral for Lease

• Prospects for Sale

• Producing Properties for Sale

Setting up an AOI

Please follow the steps below to set up an AOI. This example is for a county-based AOI.

1. Go to the My DI tab

2. Click the Virtual Scout link

3. Click the Add Area of Interest link

4. Select the County/Parish choice

5. Click NEXT

6. Enter a description or name for your AOI

7. Select the state

8. Select the County or Parish

9. Choose the monitoring area under Search Area

10. Choose an Initial Search Period - 30, 60, 90 or 180 days. This will populate your AOI with recent activity

11. If you would like to receive email notification about new activity in your Virtual Scout check the Email Notification option. You will receive a single Virtual Scout email per day only when activity occurs within your Virtual Scout

12. Select the items you would like to monitor in your AOI

13. Click FINISH

After a few moments your screen should refresh and take you back to the AOI Hub Page where you can now access your Virtual Scout by clicking on the Description or View link.

Accessing an AOI

To access an AOI simply click either the Description link or the View link.

Once inside your AOI you may view the activity by clicking on each tab. If there is only a single type of activity in the AOI you will only have a single tab.

To display the items in your AOI on a map simply select items using the individual checkboxes or click the Check All button and then click the Map button. This will display the selected items on a map with your AOI shown in pink.

In order to get additional information on items in your AOI you can click on the API link or other hyperlink listed in the table.