Inventory and rollout details below describe the July 20, 2026 announcement. The overall NDEX catalog count was updated on October 15, 2026; check NDEX for current availability.
Houston, TX - NthDS and the Oil Information Library of Fort Worth (OILFW) are putting Permian library archive data on the NDEX Marketplace. Governed partner channel from a regional non-profit collection. Not another dump of the same commercial piles.
NDEX is the hub for partner libraries and organizations. OILFW is first online: millions of Fort Worth archive documents, with the first Permian LAS feed already live. More orgs targeted for Q3 and Q4.
What OILFW brings
OILFW has been a Fort Worth geoscience library since 1985. Members call it "OIL." The collection is more than wireline LAS. Shelves hold electric and driller's logs, scout tickets, well completion cards, core and mud reports, maps, microfiche, and hand-written John Wilson scout reports from the 1920s through the 1980s, across all ten Texas Railroad Commission districts and several other states.
That mix (logs plus the G&G paper trail national vendors often skip) is the point of the channel.
Live on NDEX now:
- 26,000+ OILFW LAS files across 5,000+ Permian wells (first feed)
- OILFW badge on the map; buy and download stay membership-gated
- Most of this partner shelf was never digitized or licensed by commercial mega-libraries (some wells overlap public or vendor holdings; the channel is built on the OILFW archive)
- More OILFW LAS and documents (including scout and completion material) coming soon
If you need Permian Basin well log data for A&D, recompletions, or a regional study and the usual commercial lists are thin, this is the shelf to unlock.
As of October 15, 2026, NDEX has 2M indexed wells. LAS and record availability vary by well; the OILFW collection is a member-gated subset of the catalog. For your own archive, explore well-log digitization and QC with Nspect and core report table extraction with Crawler.
How access works
Search the open catalog free. Unlock the OILFW partner shelf with membership. NDEX is a pay-per-well data alternative to Enverus, TGS, IHS Markit, or S&P Global: buy the wells you need instead of a multi-year enterprise seat.
OIL members get:
- Access to NthDS workflows for well-log digitization and QC and core report extraction; request a demo for your archive
- Member access to the OILFW channel on NDEX (search the catalog, see OILFW-badged Permian inventory, buy gated partner LAS, use Muradin search)
- Member pricing through NDEX
- Both dashboards without an enterprise commitment
NDEX is a one-stop marketplace for pay-per-well subsurface data: partner archives like OILFW plus the public catalog, quality-verified LAS and related G&G products, without multi-year seat lock-ins.
"Institutions like OIL are the memory of this industry. For more than forty years, the library has safeguarded the scout tickets, logs, and hand-written reports that sat in regional collections while national databases grew elsewhere. Putting NDepth and NDEX in its members' hands turns that memory into live, searchable data, and the value flows back to the community that preserved it."
- Michael Ramirez, CEO of NthDS
NDEX Marketplace · Well-log digitization · Request a demo
About the Oil Information Library of Fort Worth
Founded in 1985 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) to support geological science and engineering research. Collections cover all ten Texas Railroad Commission districts plus Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Wyoming, with research reciprocity in San Antonio, Denver, Midland, and Wichita Falls. 500 W 7th St. #LL150, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Open 9 AM-4 PM, Monday-Friday. Membership: fortworthgeologicallibrary.org.
About NthDS
NthDS builds AI platforms for legacy oil and gas records. Nspect digitizes well-log curves with QC for LAS delivery. Crawler extracts reports and tables into structured, searchable data. NDEX has 2M indexed wells, with available LAS and records sold by the well. Availability and delivery vary by well; the OILFW Permian partner channel requires membership. Founded 2017 by Michael Ramirez and Johnathan Green. 2019 Houston Business Journal Innovation Award.