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Introducing: FracTracker’s comprehensive new Pennsylvania map!

By Matt Kelso, BA/January 20, 2022 / 6 minute read
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Overview

FracTracker Alliance has developed a new comprehensive map for Pennsylvania that includes 208,778 oil and gas wells along with 57,132 violations assessed to both conventional and unconventional well sites since 2008.

Nuts & Bolts

Although we’ve made many different maps to show the spread of the oil and gas industry across the Commonwealth over the years, this one is set up a little differently from the others.

The fundamental difference is that conventional and unconventional wells are shown on the same map, with plugged wells also included. Previously, putting over a quarter-million points on a map resulted in very sluggish map performance, but we are taking advantage of improved data delivery capabilities from ArcGIS Online, which we’ve been using for our online mapping system since 2012.

Serving data is only a portion of the bottleneck with map performance when using large datasets – as all of this has to be funneled through the end user’s computer system, internet connection, and browser software. Because these factors can vary tremendously from person to person, it still makes sense to do everything that we can to minimize the effect of loading datasets as enormous as the full inventory of Pennsylvania wells.

For that reason, we continue to use “generalized” layers, which are formed by creating a buffer zone point facilities that display when users are zoomed out. This allows for a visual representation of the industry’s extent, while significantly reducing load times – by not drawing dot, on top of dot, on top of dot – until the user zooms in to a scale of 1:500,000, which is about the size of a county.

Figure 1. Part of a dense cluster of wells in Armstrong County and Indiana County.
Figure 1. Part of a dense cluster of wells in Armstrong County and Indiana County.

But there is still good news for those who enjoy looking at maps with thousands of dots on it, as the screenshot of the border between Armstrong County and Indiana County demonstrates.

In fact, I’m a bit concerned that this density may still be too much data for some computer systems to efficiently handle. To that end, please let me know if you are having difficulty loading the maps. There are some additional adjustments that could be made if this seems to be a widespread issue.

The foundation for this map is a data layer called “Oil and Gas Locations – Conventional Unconventional,” which is published by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and made available on the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, also known as PASDA.

PASDA has another dataset of wells that has even more locations, 220,015 in total as of January 11, 2022. Despite having five percent more wells in that inventory than the one we used, it is much less comprehensive in terms of associated data fields. We don’t know whether these wells are conventional or unconventional, for one example, or whether the well is for production or waste injection, for another. Such differences serve a good reminder that available data and realities in the field are not always the same thing.

Oil & Gas Wells in Pennsylvania

This map shows conventional and unconventional oil and gas activity in Pennsylvania through 1/12/2022. View the map “Details” tab below in the top left corner to learn more and access the data, or click on the map to explore the dynamic version of this data. Data sources are also listed at the end of this article. In order to turn layers on and off in the map, use the Layers dropdown menu on the left. This tool is only available in Full Screen view. Items will activate in this map dependent on the level of zoom in or out.

View Full Size Map | Updated 1/12/2022 | Map Tutorial

Wells

FracTracker, along with DEP, typically separate conventional and unconventional wells when mapping them. We’ve done that here as well, although we have modified the dataset by separating three different well statuses and one group of well types that we think are of interest to our users.

The well categories shown in this map are as follows:

  • Conventional (n=97,844), shown in orange pentagons. This includes wells with an “N” (meaning “No”) indicator in the “Unconventional” field in the dataset, with well statuses of Active, Plugged Unverified, Regulatory Inactive Status, and Uncharted Mined Through.
  • Unconventional (n=12,795), shown in purple pentagons. This includes wells with a “Y” (meaning “Yes”) indicator in the “Unconventional” field in the dataset, with the same well statuses as Conventional, above.
  • Plugged (n=48,925), shown in grey pentagons. Either conventional or unconventional wells that have a status of DEP Plugged, Plugged Mined Through, or Plugged OG well. Note that there are additional wells that have a plug date in the dataset, but with some other status, and are not included here. As we are unable to evaluate the contradictory data in the field, we had no choice but to pick a methodology for determining plugged wells and stick with it. In all, there are 2,629 wells with one of the plugged statuses above that do not have a plug date entered. For the reverse scenario, there are 301 wells that do have a plug date while having a status that does not suggest the well is plugged.
  • Never Drilled (n=33,488), shown in green pentagons. Either conventional or unconventional wells with the status of Operator Reported Not Drilled or Proposed but Never Materialized. Note that new wells that have been proposed but not yet drilled have an Active status, and are not included here.
  • Orphaned and Abandoned (n=12,691), shown with red pentagons. These are either conventional or unconventional wells with a status of Abandoned, DEP Abandoned List, or DEP Orphan List. Note that the actual number of orphaned and abandoned wells is much higher, with estimates up to 750,000 such wells having been drilled since before the Civil War, according to research by Mary Kang, et al, which has been cited by DEP, as well. Most of these wells have not been relocated in the field, however, so haven’t been added to the official inventory.

Injection / Service / Storage (n=3,035), shown with black pentagons. These are wells that are not currently intended for oil and gas production, and include the well types of Injection, Observation, Storage Well, Test Well, and Waste Disposal. Well status supersedes this category, so that a plugged waste disposal well will be shown as a plugged well on this map, for example.

Violations

In addition to all the wells, this map shows violations, including for conventional wells. Altogether, DEP has cited 78,153 code violations since 2008, according to its compliance report. Unfortunately, the report does not include location data for any of these incidents. However, FracTracker was able to determine the location of 51,023 violations by matching the offending wells’ API numbers to the oil and gas location data discussed above.

Still, there remains a major subset of violations where the API number, along with county and municipality data, for that matter, are not available. Many of these are not assessed to any individual well, per se, but rather to the well pad itself. We were able to match an additional 6,109 violations by matching the Site ID number to the same well dataset above. In such cases, the violations were given the coordinates of the first well on the site that the spreadsheet came across, which could be any of the wells on the pad.

Unfortunately, there are a large number of violations that we were not able to match through either method – 21,021 of them, to be exact.

Some of these are certainly midstream and are associated with pipelines instead of well sites. Either way, about 27 percent of the violations are missing because DEP does not include enough location data – or for that matter – enough other data for us to figure out where they are located.

Despite the dataset’s shortcomings, it really does contain a wealth of information, including the specific Pennsylvania legal code that was violated and the field notes of the on-site inspector. As an example, I’ll share the notes for one of the six violations for one of my least favorite wells, the Sedat 3A waste disposal injection well in my community of Plum Borough, on the western edge of Allegheny County.

On July 21, 2021, a violation of 78.51(h), which requires the protection of water supplies, was issued:

Admin inspection in response to a water supply complaint and a phone call with Marc Jacobs of Penneco.

On 7/11/21, a water supply complaint was reported to the Department. In this complaint, the complainant mentions that a member of Penneco had already conducted sampling of the complainant’s water supply.

On 7/22/21, the Department spoke to Marc Jacobs (Penneco) via phone. Jacobs stated that he notified the EPA of the complaint, but did not notify the DEP.

Per current regulations, a well operator who receives notice from a landowner, water purveyor, or affected person that a water supply has been affected by pollution or diminution, shall report receipt of notice from an affected person to the Department within 24 hours of receiving the notice.

Violation is being issued under 25 PA CODE 78.51(h) for failure to report receipt of notice from an affected person of a potentially polluted water supply to the Department within 24 hours of receiving the notice.

As an aside, I feel as if DEP deserves a violation here as well, as it took 11 days between learning of the contaminated residential water supply and contacting the offending company. If the data is to be believed, they somehow issued the citation a day before the conversation listed above actually happened, so maybe the agency deserves another violation for that inconsistency, as well.

I won’t let the federal Environmental Protection Agency off the hook here, either.

I submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for this communication that was apparently sent to that agency instead of DEP, and while they did find relevant documents, they refused to release them after stalling for three months, arguing that, as the records were sent there erroneously, that “EPA has no records, as defined under the FOIA, that are responsive to your request,” according to their official reply.

The Take Away

This is the story of just one of the 57,132 violations shown on the map. Obviously, some of these stories will be more compelling than others. While it isn’t possible to sit and read them all, it is worth spending some time browsing the map and reading the stories of some of the 73 percent of violations that we were able to map, either in your neighborhood or at random throughout the state. This will convey a sense of the damage that the industry has caused to the land, water, and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2008. Chronicling these events is a great first step. Here’s hoping that one day the Department will use this data to develop policies that actually protect the environment, as their name and mission suggests they ought to do.

References & Where to Learn More

The data used to construct this map can be downloaded here. As always, please be sure to check the map’s Details tab on the toolbar for more information.

Topics in This Article:

Data and Analysis, Infrastructure, Wells

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4 replies
  1. Christina Miller
    Christina Miller says:
    April 30, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    Driving back roads in this region reveals how much oil, gas, and coal infrastructure is in active use or abandoned. I would like to be able to overlay this on a satellite map with forests, ag, towns, etc. Thank you for the incredible effort to create this resource.

    Reply
    • Erica Jackson
      Erica Jackson says:
      May 3, 2022 at 9:46 am

      Hi Christina – if you click on the basemap button – which looks like a square made up of 4 smaller squares – you can select a satellite background. If you are viewing the map in full screen, this button is in the upper left of the map. Let me know if you have more questions about this!

      Reply
  2. Terry Sopher Sr
    Terry Sopher Sr says:
    February 1, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    This is simply AWESOME! I commend everyone involved in FracTracker for developing this capability. This graphic should be very useful in lobbying to visually get across how heavily impacted areas are by oil & gas development. I also am wondering if you are considering developing the ability to overlay this data on other important factors? For instance: (1) overlap with agricultural production areas & implications for toxic contamination of air, soil, water used to produce food crops & animals, eggs, etc? (2) overlap with ORGANIC food producing farms? FRACTRACKER ROCKS!

    Reply
    • Erica Jackson
      Erica Jackson says:
      May 3, 2022 at 10:57 am

      We have done similar analyses on these topics, for example, this article: https://www.fractracker.org/2017/06/risking-americas-food-for-energy/ If you are interested in a map of a specific issue, you can request one from us: https://www.fractracker.org/services/custom-maps/

      Thank you for your support!

      Reply

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Petrochemical Toxics in the Ohio River Watershed

December 21, 2021
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A look at the petrochemical industry’s footprint in the Ohio River Watershed and how much toxic pollution is discharged into waterways.
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New Letter from Federal Regulators Regarding how the Falcon has Been Investigated

December 1, 2021
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FracTracker received a letter from federal regulators with news on Shell's Falcon Pipeline investigation, but many concerns still remain.
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Fracking Wastewater Concerns Resurface on Pennsylvania Roads as the DEP Undergoes an Evaluation of Coproduct Determinations

November 10, 2021
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Though a 2018 legal win resulted in a statewide ban on the practice, unauthorized brine spreading in PA continues. Guest post by Fair Shake.
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Map Update on Criminal Charges Facing Mariner East 2 Pipeline

October 29, 2021
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FracTracker mapped the 21 locations and over 120 violations by Energy Transfer Partner since Mariner East 2 Pipeline construction began.
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FracTracker map of proposed Renovo, PA power plant

New power plant proposal called senseless and wasteful by climate groups

August 26, 2021
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Residents and local advocacy groups are fighting a new power plant in Renovo, PA, planned to be constructed on an abandoned rail yard.
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Ongoing Safety Concerns over Shell’s Falcon Pipeline

August 24, 2021
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Ohio River Valley Groups react to a new safety warning issued by federal regulators to Shell regarding the troubled Falcon Pipeline
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Lycoming Watershed Digital Atlas

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Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania Fracking Story Map

June 11, 2021
FracTracker’s aerial survey of unconventional oil & gas infrastructure and activities in northeast PA to southern OH and central WV
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Ohio & Fracking Waste: The Case for Better Waste Management

June 3, 2021
Insights on Ohio’s massive fracking waste gap, Class II injection well activity, and fracking waste related legislation
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Pennsylvania Conventional Well Map Update

May 27, 2021
There are over 100,000 active conventional wells in PA, with more permitted each year. Most are unplugged, posing serious threats to the climate.
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Mapping Gathering Lines in Bradford County, Pennsylvania

May 19, 2021
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FracTracker mapped gathering lines in Bradford County, PA. Public data on gathering lines are incomplete, leaving us to fill in the gaps.
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Birds of Northeastern Pennsylvania Threatened by Fracking Development

May 14, 2021
Information on which bird species in northeastern Pennsylvania are affected by the fracking industry’s expansion.
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Trends in fracking waste coming to New York State from Pennsylvania

April 20, 2021
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Over the past decade, New York State has seen a steep decline in the quantity of waste products from the fracking industry sent to its landfills for disposal. Explore FracTracker's 2020 updated data.
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Shell’s Falcon Pipeline Under Investigation for Serious Public Safety Threats

March 17, 2021
Shell’s Falcon Pipeline, which is designed to carry ethane to the Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA for plastic production, has been under investigation by federal and state agencies, since 2019.
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Mapping intersectionality: Empowering youth addressing plastics

March 3, 2021
VIEW MAP & DATA Overview A new collaboration between FracTracker…
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Utica and Marcellus shale plays in the Appalachian Basin map

Fracking Waste in the Appalachian Basin – A Story Map

January 15, 2021
  The production of fracking waste in the Appalachian Basin…
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Incinerators: Dinosaurs in the world of energy generation

October 19, 2020
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  In this article, we’ll take a look at the current…
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Straight Talk on the Future of Fracking Jobs in Pennsylvania

October 14, 2020
Fracking has been raised as an issue that could determine the…
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Mariner East 2 Causes Dozens of Spills Since Lockdown Began, Over 300 in Total

September 17, 2020
FracTracker Alliance has released a new map of drilling fluid…
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LNG development puts Wyalusing, Pennsylvania in the cross-hairs

September 15, 2020
New Fortress Energy plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
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Image courtesy of Lois Bower-Bjornson from the Clean Air Council.

Landscape Changes and Mental Health Impacts in Southwestern Pennsylvania Communities: A Qualitative Study

August 20, 2020
The primary goal of this qualitative study was to identify residents’ attitudes about the changing physical landscape resulting from fracking operations. Furthermore, how have these landscape changes affected residents’ engagement with the outdoors and their overall health?
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FracTracker in the Field: Building a Live Virtual Map

August 14, 2020
  August 19, 2020 Update: The virtual story map is live! In…
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The Loyalsock Watershed Project

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Industry Targets Peaceful Protest via “Critical Infrastructure” Legislation

July 9, 2020
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By Ted Auch, PhD, Great Lakes Program Coordinator and Shannon…
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PA attorney general 43rd grand jury report on environmental crimes

PA Grand Jury on Environmental Crimes Reveals Regulatory Failures

June 26, 2020
For the past two years, a grand jury empaneled by Pennsylvania…
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FracTracker Falcon Pipeline spills map

Falcon Pipeline Construction Releases over 250,000 Gallons of Drilling Fluid in Pennsylvania and Ohio

June 16, 2020
Part of the Falcon Public Environmental Impact Assessment - a…
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Fracking Water Use in Pennsylvania Increases Dramatically

May 29, 2020
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Unconventional wells in Pennsylvania were always resource-intensive,…
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Compressor station within Loyalsock State Forest, PA.

Air Pollution from Pennsylvania Shale Gas Compressor Stations – REPORT

March 19, 2020
Air pollution from Pennsylvania shale gas compressor stations…
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Early Construction (2016) of Shell Ethane Cracker in Monaca, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

House Bill 1100: What you need to know

March 5, 2020
Pennsylvania’s House Bill 1100, sponsored by state Rep. Mike…
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National Energy and Petrochemical Map

February 28, 2020
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This map from FracTracker Alliance is filled with energy and petrochemical data. Explore the map, continue reading to learn more, and see how your state measures up!
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Fracking in Pennsylvania: Not Worth It

January 7, 2020
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Despite the ever-increasing heaps of violations and drilling…
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Fracking Drilling rig in Washington County, Pennsylvania

Allegheny County Air Quality Monitoring Project

December 18, 2019
A recent study out of Carnegie Mellon University estimated that…
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Land Lease Map front page

Prizio Increases Transparency in Oil & Gas Data in Allegheny County

December 2, 2019
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A successful 2019 Community Sentinel Award Reception- a full summary

October 29, 2019
There are many courageous and determined individuals to be grateful…
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Want Not, Waste Not? Fossil Fuel Extraction’s Waste Disposal Challenges

October 3, 2019
Pennsylvania's fracking industry is producing record amounts…
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Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services

October 1, 2019
Guest Blog by Josh Eisenfeld, Director of Marketing with Fair…
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Abandoned Wells in Pennsylvania: We’re Not Doing Enough

August 8, 2019
Pennsylvania does not have adequate plan to address thousands of dangerous abandoned natural gas and oil wells within the state. FracTracker intern Isabelle Weber gives recommendations to address this widespread issue.
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Wildness Lost – Pine Creek

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The Underlying Politics and Unconventional Well Fundamentals of an Appalachian Storage Hub

July 23, 2019
FracTracker is closely mapping and following the petrochemical…
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Mapping the Petrochemical Build-Out Along the Ohio River

July 10, 2019
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New maps show the build-out of oil and gas infrastructure that…
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Pennsylvanians Demand a Response to Rare Cancer Cases, Other Health Impacts

June 26, 2019
New research on fracking health impacts, combined with unusually…
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Production and Location Trends in PA: A Moving Target

June 10, 2019
The FracTracker Alliance tends to look mostly at the impacts…
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Who Pays? Health and Economic Impacts of Fracking in Pennsylvania

May 28, 2019
Since the advent of unconventional shale gas drilling, some effects…
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The Falcon Public Monitoring Project

May 8, 2019
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Part of the Falcon Public EIA Project In March of 2019, two…
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Release: The 2019 You Are Here map launches, showing New York’s hurdles to climate leadership

April 24, 2019
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For Immediate Release Contact: Lee Ziesche, lee@saneenergyproject.org,…
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Getting Rid of All of that Waste – Increasing Use of Oil and Gas Injection Wells in Pennsylvania

January 31, 2019
Oil and gas development generates a lot of liquid waste. Some…
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Pennsylvania Drilling Trends in 2018

January 8, 2019
With the new year underway, it's an opportune moment to reflect…
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