See the Permian Basin Move

InsideInSAR is a free, basin-wide ground-motion resource for the Permian Basin, powered by SkyGeo. It uses satellite InSAR to make long-term patterns of uplift and subsidence visible across the Midland Basin, Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform. It is designed as a shared screening baseline: a place to see where the ground is moving before deciding whether a location needs more detailed analysis.

Use the free map to explore basin-scale uplift and subsidence, compare locations and identify areas that may deserve a closer look. It is useful for early screening, building regional context and starting technical conversations across operators, midstream teams, regulators and researchers. If a decision affects safety, integrity, production or significant capital, move from the public view to a higher-fidelity monitoring and interpretation workflow.

Do not use the public map as a standalone basis for a high-consequence operational or engineering decision. Basin-wide screening cannot reliably isolate every local signal, attribute movement to a particular well or prove why the ground is moving. For asset-level decisions, the InSAR needs to be processed and interpreted in the local geological, operational and monitoring context.

The Permian Basin is an active subsurface system. Production, saltwater disposal, fluid migration, pressure changes, geology and natural ground behaviour can all contribute to surface movement. InSAR shows the surface response, but the cause has to be tested against operational and subsurface evidence rather than assumed from the map alone.

The map can help you see whether regional uplift or subsidence is present near an asset, but it is an entry-level basin view rather than a local integrity assessment. Local decisions need higher-resolution processing, quality control and interpretation against well locations, injection and production history, geology and other monitoring. That is the step that turns a visible pattern into useful operational evidence.

In some cases, a time series can reveal persistent or accelerating uplift or subsidence before a problem is obvious at the surface. That should be treated as early awareness, not a universal failure-prediction system. The Crane County work described on InsideInSAR shows why historical time series and expert interpretation matter, while the contrasting Toyah case shows that not every failure mechanism produces a detectable deformation precursor.

InsideInSAR is built for people who need a common view of Permian Basin ground behaviour: operators, reservoir and geomechanics teams, midstream and integrity teams, environmental specialists, regulators, landowners and researchers. The public map creates a shared starting point; the level of analysis should then increase with the consequence of the decision.

First, capture the location and review the pattern in its wider basin context. Then compare it with what your team knows about nearby wells, injection, production, geology, seismicity and asset condition. If the movement is persistent, accelerating or operationally important, request a local review rather than acting on the public map alone.