Bottom Shapefiles

Find Survey Contracts Before RFPs Are Published

Bottom Shapefiles on BigGeo puts 651,487 exploration program records on a live spatial grid, organized by basin, play, and operator so your BD team can see exactly where activity is accelerating. Stop reacting to published bids and start calling operators who are about to need you.

At a Glance

The Data Behind the Decision

651,487
Exploration records indexed
Basin and Play
Organized spatial coverage
Operator-Level
Contract target resolution
Buy by Geography

Stop buying the whole country. Buy just your markets.

Most data vendors sell you a national license to millions of records you will never contact. BigGeo works differently.You tell us where you sell, and we cut you exactly that geographic slice of the dataset. A single city.

A cluster of ZIP codes. A metro area. A county. Whatever matches your territory. The result is a lean, CRM-ready file containing only the companies in the markets you actually work, delivered at a fraction of the cost of a full national license.

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The Problem

You Are Always One Step Behind

Geophysical surveying firms live and die by pipeline timing. The companies that win work are not the ones with the best crews, they are the ones who knew a program was coming six months before the RFP dropped. Right now, that intelligence is scattered across permit portals, regulatory filings, lease auction records, and industry press, and your competitors are piecing it together the same slow way you are.

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RFPs Arrive Too Late
By the time a bid solicitation is public, operators already have preferred vendors in mind. Winning on an RFP alone means competing on price, not relationships built before the program was announced.
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Basin Activity Is Invisible
Permit filings, lease acquisitions, and seismic announcements are published across dozens of jurisdictions in formats that are not spatially connected. You cannot see which plays are heating up until the moment is already past.
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Operator Targeting Is Guesswork
Without a spatial view of who is acquiring acreage and where, BD outreach is based on instinct and industry contacts. You miss operators moving into new basins before your relationships are in place.
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Pipeline Coverage Has Geographic Gaps
Your team tracks the basins you know well and misses activity in adjacent plays. A contract opportunity two formations over never makes it onto the pipeline because no one is watching that geography systematically.
What Is In The Dataset

Every Active Exploration Program, Spatially Indexed

Basin and Play Boundaries

Every record is tagged to a specific basin and play, so you can filter your pipeline to the geologies your crews are equipped to work and rank opportunities by geographic fit.

Operator-Level Program Attribution

Exploration activity is tied to the operator running the program, giving your BD team named targets rather than anonymous acreage blocks to chase.

Permit and Lease Spatial Footprints

See permit filings and lease acquisitions as actual geometries on the grid so you can measure program scale, adjacent activity, and likely seismic scope before the first call is made.

Announced Seismic Campaign Tracking

Seismic programs announced before formal procurement are captured and mapped, giving you the earliest possible signal to get a crew positioned and a conversation started.

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BigGeo AI

Ask BigGeo AI Which Basins Need a Survey Crew Now

BigGeo AI works inside ChatGPT and Claude today, giving your team a plain-language interface to the full Bottom Shapefiles dataset without pulling a single shapefile manually. Ask which operators are running active programs in a target basin, which plays show accelerating permit density, or which announced seismic campaigns are within your crew's mobilization range, and get a governed, data-grounded answer in seconds rather than a morning spent on regulatory portals.

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Which operators have filed the most permits in the Permian Basin in the last 90 days?
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Show me announced seismic campaigns in the DJ Basin where we have no existing operator relationship.
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Which plays have the highest lease acquisition density within 200 miles of our main crew base?
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Frequently asked questions

How is this different from monitoring state permit portals ourselves?
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Can we use this to prioritize which operators to call this quarter?
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How current is the exploration activity data?
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Do we need GIS software or a dedicated analyst to use this?
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How quickly can we get access and start building pipeline?
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