Houston, TX - NthDS, the leading company in oil and gas data extraction, announced a partnership with the Oil Information Library of Fort Worth (OILFW), giving the library's community access to two NthDS platforms: NDepth Digitization and the NDEX Marketplace.
Since 1985, the non-profit library - known to its members simply as "OIL" - has been a home base for the regional geoscience community. Its shelves hold scout tickets, electric logs, driller's logs, core reports, mud logs, maps, and microfiche, including the hand-written John Wilson scout reports spanning the 1920s through the 1980s, with coverage across all ten Texas Railroad Commission districts and eight additional states. Today the library is digitizing its historic collections, and this partnership supports expanding digital access to the records its members have relied on for four decades.
As part of the partnership, OIL members receive:
- Discounted well log digitization - NDepth turns raster logs, core reports, and scanned documents into clean, quality-controlled LAS files or CSVs - drag, drop, done - and members keep full ownership of every file created
- Member pricing on the well data marketplace - NDEX puts more than 1.5 million wells across Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah (expanding to 6 million soon) on an interactive map with conversational AI, plain-English search, and instant CSV export
- Free credits to explore the platform, plus discounted pricing on all NDEX data
- Full access to both dashboards - no enterprise commitments
Members purchase only the wells they need, with true pay-per-well pricing. No contracts. No seat licenses.
"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 never made it into a database. Putting NDepth and NDEX in its members' hands turns that memory into live, searchable, digital data - and the value flows straight back to the community that preserved it. That kind of open, affordable access to subsurface data is exactly what NthDS was built to deliver."
— Michael Ramirez, CEO of NthDS
Explore the NDEX Marketplace, start a digitization project with NDepth, or request a demo.
About the Oil Information Library of Fort Worth
The Oil Information Library of Fort Worth was founded in 1985 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to encourage, foster, and promote scientific research in the fields of geological science and engineering. Its collections cover all ten Texas Railroad Commission districts plus Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Wyoming, with research reciprocity agreements with libraries in San Antonio, Denver, Midland, and Wichita Falls. The library is located at 500 W 7th St. #LL150, Fort Worth, TX 76102 and is open 9 AM - 4 PM, Monday through Friday. Membership information is available at fortworthgeologicallibrary.org.
About NthDS
NthDS builds AI platforms that turn legacy oil and gas records into structured, actionable digital data. Its NDepth Digitization platform converts raster logs, core reports, and scanned documents into clean, quality-controlled LAS files and CSVs, and its NDEX Marketplace provides pay-per-well access to more than 1.5 million wells across seven states. Since its 2017 launch by founders Michael Ramirez and Johnathan Green, NthDS has been recognized with the 2019 Houston Business Journal Innovation Award.