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Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production History of the United States (ver. 1.1, April 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1816-12-31
End Date
2022-09-01
Revision
2023-05-25

Citation

Skinner, C.C., Miller, R.F., Kinney, S.A., Gianoutsos, N.J., Gunther, G.L., and Shorten, C.M., 2022, Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production History of the United States (ver. 1.1, April 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UIR5HE.

Summary

This data release contains several datasets that provide an overview of oil and gas well history and production of the United States, from 1817 to September 1, 2022. Well history data is aggregated into 1-mile and 10-mile squares indicating the total number of wells and counts of wells classified as oil, gas, dry, injection, hydraulically fractured, and/or horizontal wells. Well history is also separated into layers binned on 1-year increments from a well's spud date (date drilling commenced). Production data is aggregated in 2-mile and 10-mile squares that sum the total production of oil, gas, and water volumes. Production data is also separated into layers binned on 1-year increments to reflect the year of production. These aggregations [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Christopher C Skinner
Originator :
Christopher C Skinner, Robert F Miller, Scott A Kinney, Nicholas J Gianoutsos, Gregory Gunther, Chilisa M Shorten
Metadata Contact :
Christopher C Skinner
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
SDC Data Owner :
Central Energy Resources Science Center

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USOilandGasWellHistoryProduction.xml
“Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		27.71 KB application/fgdc+xml
versionhistory.txt 622 Bytes text/plain
USOilGasAggregation.gpkg.zip
“GeoPackage, compressed” 		312.1 MB application/zip
USOilGasAggregation.gdb.zip
“Geodatabase, compressed” 		266.54 MB application/zip
cells.JPG
“Preview of Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production Data” 		thumbnail 86.15 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

This data release provides a historical perspective to United States oil and gas drilling and production over time. It provides an opportunity for the public to understand trends and to be able to use these aggregations for further analysis. This information is typically only available from commercial data sources and this extract makes this information available to the public.
Preview of Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production Data
Preview of Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production Data

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Provenance

Revision 1.1 by Christopher C Skinner on May 25, 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “versionhistory.txt” in the attached files section.

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