Saskatchewan Oil Well DLS Map Layer

Saskatchewan has more than 65,000 licensed oil and gas wells - the second-largest producing inventory in Canada after Alberta. Every one of them is identified by a Dominion Land Survey legal land description referencing the W1M, W2M, or W3M meridians. Until recently, getting a SK well onto a DLS grid alongside its pipeline ties and nearest battery meant cross-referencing the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources (MER) registry against a separate GIS export. The Township Canada SK energy layers now place the well, pipelines, facilities, and oil-gas pools on a single DLS map.

This page covers what the Saskatchewan oil well DLS map layer shows, how SK's DLS grid differs from Alberta's, and a worked example near Weyburn.

📸 Screenshot placeholder: Township Canada map zoomed to the Weyburn area (~49.7°N, 103.8°W) with the SK Wells layer toggled on, DLS grid overlay visible, and the Pipelines layer enabled. Highlight a well pin and the popup showing its UWI and licence status.

How Saskatchewan's DLS Grid Differs from Alberta's

Alberta runs from W4M through W6M; Saskatchewan runs from W1M through W3M. That difference matters in two practical ways for SK O&G work.

First, the meridian confusion that bites Alberta workflows - W4 versus W5 transposing a well 250 km across the province - is absent in SK. SK's meridians are spaced similarly (~4° of longitude apart), but there is no internal correction zone that splits the producing fairway the way W5 does in Alberta. A SK LSD with the correct township and range will land in the right basin even if the source document was hand-keyed.

Second, the W2M anchor runs near 102°W along the Manitoba border. Williston Basin wells in the Estevan-Weyburn-Oxbow corridor reference W2M almost exclusively. The WCSB-fringe wells in west-central SK reference W3M. If you work both halves of the province, the meridian is the first thing to check on every record. See the Saskatchewan legal land description guide for the full meridian map.

What the SK Wells Map Layer Shows

The Saskatchewan Wells layer renders as PMTiles on top of the DLS grid and satellite imagery. Each well point carries:

• UWI in the standard SK format (e.g., 101/14-10-7-13-W2/00)
• Licence status from the MER (active, suspended, abandoned, reclaimed)
• Substance (crude oil, natural gas, multiphase)
• Operator (licensee BA name)

The unified Pipelines and Facilities layers cover SK on the same toggle - meaning a well, its tie-in line, and the destination battery render together once you have the Province filter set to SK. For multi-province pads or pipeline corridors that cross the AB-SK border, toggle both provinces on at once.

Worked Example: Looking Up a Weyburn-Area Well

A landman is reviewing a surface-lease renewal in the Weyburn-Estevan corridor. The lease references 14-10-7-13-W2 - Legal Subdivision 14, Section 10, Township 7, Range 13, West of the 2nd Meridian. That places the parcel just west of Weyburn, inside the Bakken light-oil fairway and the Weyburn-Midale CO₂-EOR unit footprint.

📸 Screenshot placeholder: Township Canada search box with 14-10-7-13-W2 entered, map zoomed to the resulting LSD with the DLS grid, satellite imagery, and SK Wells layer all visible. Highlight the wellbore points sitting inside the LSD outline.

Enter the LSD into Township Canada. The map centres on the parcel with the LSD outline drawn on the DLS grid. With the SK Wells layer enabled, every licensed wellbore that surfaces inside that LSD - and the adjacent quarter sections - appears as a pin coloured by licence status. Clicking any well opens the UWI, operator, substance, and licence status. Toggle the Pipelines layer to see which lines connect those wells to the nearest battery, and the Facilities layer to identify the destination.

For batch work - converting a list of 200 LSDs to GPS coordinates - upload the CSV to the batch converter. Output includes coordinates, province, and municipality for each record, with optional oil and gas field enrichment.

Surface Lease Prep: Combining Energy Layers with SK Crown Land and Soils

SK surface-lease negotiations often hinge on what is already on the parcel and what the soil profile supports. The SK ag crown land layer and the unified Soil Survey layer (which now covers SK alongside AB and BC) toggle on the same map. For a wellsite or pipeline ROW under negotiation, you can see the LSD, the existing well and pipeline footprint, the crown disposition status, and the soil capability class without leaving the map.

🗺️ Diagram placeholder: Cross-section sketch showing the layer stack at one SK LSD - DLS grid → satellite basemap → SK Wells points → Pipelines lines → Facilities points → Soil Survey polygons - with each layer labelled.

Getting Started

The SK Wells, Pipelines, Facilities, and Oil-Gas Pools layers are part of the Energy Bundle on the Business tier. See pricing for plan details and the SK, BC, and Manitoba layers launch post for the full provincial inventory.

For the Saskatchewan DLS grid on its own, the Saskatchewan quarter section guide covers the meridian-by-meridian breakdown. For the underlying well dataset reference, see the AER ST37 wells data source page - the SK MER equivalent attributes map onto the same well-list schema.

Try it: enter 14-10-7-13-W2 into the Township Canada converter to open a Weyburn-area LSD on the SK map.