Systems and methods for managing large oil field operations

A system for managing large oil field operations comprising:

• (a) a video monitor that receives information and displays an oil field map, wherein
• (1) the oil field map comprises oil well objects, oil field facility objects, surface work crew objects, sub-surface work crew objects, safety zones objects, and work equipment objects associated with at least one work crew object and having a geographic locater device for tracking its location;
• (2) the oil field map is customizable by date, has a date selector tool, and wherein each of the oil well objects, oil field facility objects, surface work crew objects, sub-surface work crew objects, work equipment rig objects and safety zones objects comprise a date attribute arid a location attribute;
• (3) each of the surface and sub-surface work crew objects are coded by a visual indicator to indicate a type of work;
• (4) user selection of a surface or sub-surface work crew object causes a text box to display having a description of the work associated with the work the crew object;
• (5) a safety zone object is associated with a surface or sub-surface work crew object, oil well objects or oil field facility objects and has a radius attribute extending 360 degrees around the center of the work crew object for the distance set by the radius attribute;
• (b) scheduling means for scheduling at least two surface or sub-surface work crew objects via a domain-specific software application from which the work crew object was extracted, wherein the scheduling means repeats the scheduling until all surface and sub-surface work crews are scheduled for a date range of interest.