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Ryan R McShane

Student Trainee (Hydrology)
Email: rmcshane@usgs.gov
Office Phone: 307-775-9199
ORCID: 0000-0002-3128-0039

Location
521 Progress Circle
Suite 6
Cheyenne , WY 82007-9502
US
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For more than 100 years, the Permian Basin has been an important source of oil and gas produced from conventional reservoirs; directional drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing has greatly increased production in the past 10 years to the extent that the Permian Basin is becoming one of the world’s largest continuous oil and gas (COG) producing fields (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2020). These recent techniques extract oil and gas by directionally drilling and hydraulically fracturing the surrounding reservoir rock. The extraction of COG by using these techniques requires large volumes of water and estimates of the total water volume used in COG require a comprehensive assessment to determine the...
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This child page contains PRISM yearly mean air temperature and precipitation covering select counties in New Mexico and Texas, 1981-2019. All data points that met the filtering criteria as described in the Data Processing <procdesc> steps were retained in the data release. Further filtering of data points to remove unrealistic values was done prior to modeling. The data was utilized as input data for the model associated with the Scientific Investigations Report "Estimates of Water Use Associated with Continuous Oil and Gas Development in the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico, 2010–2019" (Valder and others, 2021). The model was used to estimate water use associated with continuous oil and gas development in the...
Data to Estimate Water Use Associated with Continuous Oil and Gas Development, Permian Basin, United States, 1980-2019.
One of the largest conventional oil reservoirs in the United States, the Permian Basin, is becoming one of the world’s largest continuous oil and gas producing reservoirs. Continuous, or horizontal well drilling techniques extract oil and gas by directionally drilling and hydraulically fracturing the surrounding reservoir rock. The continuous extraction of oil and gas using hydraulic fracturing requires large volumes of water, and estimates of the total water volume used in the Continuous Oil and Gas (COG) extraction technique, requires a comprehensive assessment to determine the amount of water needed to extract reservoir resources. This data release contains the input and output files utilized for the assessment...
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Data-Driven Drought Prediction Project Model Outputs for Select Spatial Units within the Conterminous United States
This metadata record describes model outputs and supporting model code for the Data-Driven Drought Prediction project of the Water Resources Mission Area Drought Program. The data listed here include outputs of multiple machine learning model types for predicting hydrological drought at select locations within the conterminous United States. The child items referenced below correspond to different models and spatial extents (Colorado River Basin region or conterminous United States). See the list below or metadata files in each sub-folder for more details. Daily streamflow percentile predictions for the Colorado River Basin region — Outputs from long short-term memory (LSTM) deep learning models corresponding to...
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