WhiteStar Introduces Unlimited Well Access (UWA) Product

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, 17 October 2007 - WhiteStar Corp. today officially introduced Unlimited Well Access (UWA), a digital map-based product containing well header information for oil and gas wells in the United States, including Alaska, state and federal waters, and the Gulf of Mexico. Offered as a subscription product, UWA is updated quarterly with status information for all of the 3.9 million wells drilled and recorded nationwide.

"UWA is the only nationwide solution designed to keep track of the 30,000 new wells being drilled in the United States every year along with all the existing ones," said Robert White, WhiteStar President. "UWA puts nationwide well data right on the desktop so that exploration companies can create regional or statewide base maps quickly and inexpensively whenever they want without having to order individual data sets from individual states."

At a cost of only $500 per month with a two-year subscription, UWA provides well information for less than the price of buying well information from just one of the major oil-producing states. And UWA comes in a standard format that's much easier to use than the state-supplied files. WhiteStar has obtained the well data from every state and converted the various files into a standard format supported by mapping packages such as ESRI, GeoGraphix, Petra, SMT Kingdom, and Pitney Bowes MapInfo. The nationwide UWA data set is seamless from state to state and can be projected in either NAD27 or NAD83, including all related state planes and UTM zones.

UWA provides a map-based interface where the user can define an area of interest (AOI) by zooming in on the map, selecting specific states or counties, or delineating a region of any shape or size. Built-in software automatically accesses data for all of the wells in that AOI, delivering the results in a graphical or tabular format. The user can click on any single well on the map screen to view its data.

Data provided for each well varies by state, but all files contain such details as well name, API number, and elevation. There are about 20 attributes and 20-30 status codes listed for each well. Most data sets also provide the formation top name and bottom hole location information. The UWA interface allows the user to query well data by standard attributes, which enables the creation of base maps by particular producing formation or field.

"UWA is ideal for exploration companies that want to monitor drilling activity in a specific region without attracting any attention to themselves," said White. "With a few clicks of the mouse, they can see what operators have been drilling in a given area within recent months."

WhiteStar clients will be pleased to know that UWA is fully compatible with, and overlays on top of, the popular WhiteStar Unlimited Grid Access (UGA) and Unlimited Base-Map Access (UBA) products. UGA is a seamless digital mosaic of land survey and fitted county boundaries covering all public land survey states, Texas, and Offshore State and Federal Waters in the Gulf of Mexico. UBA a seamless nationwide digital mosaic of base map information layers from U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Files.

"By integrating UWA with UGA and UBA, WhiteStar clients can make a base map for any location in the United States containing all of the Public Land Survey information, Census data and cultural layers they need to plan their exploration and production operations - all in a matter of minutes," said White.

About WhiteStar Corp.
Headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, WhiteStar Corp. has supplied digital cartographic data products, services and consulting since 1990 to the oil and gas, pipeline, natural resource, and engineering industries. As a purveyor of geospatial data products, WhiteStar takes a customized approach to every implementation project. The WhiteStar client base now includes more than 1600 companies ranging in size from local consulting firms to integrated multi-national corporations.