Matt Kelso, BA, Author at FracTracker Alliance

About Matt Kelso, BA

Manager of Data & Technology

Matt Kelso has been with the FracTracker Alliance since 2010. Matt maintains numerous oil and gas related maps and performs data analysis for the FracTracker site. He also works extensively with other nonprofit organizations in order to help them with their oil and gas related data and mapping needs. Matt is a graduate of Humboldt State University, and has worked as an archaeologist and casino auditor in the past. He enjoys spending time with his family, learning about alternative energy solutions, and identifying everything that grows in his yard.

Phone: (412) 802-0273
Email: kelso@fractracker.org

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Entries by Matt Kelso, BA

West Virginia Wells and Violations Discussion

November 3, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

West Virginia Permits and Wells According to their website, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Office of Oil and Gas is responsible for over 55,000 active and 12,000 inactive oil and gas wells in the state. To obtain a scope of the Marcellus Shale activity, I queried that state’s online permit and well […]

New Violation Datasets at our DataTool

October 18, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

Three new datasets have been added to our DataTool: Utah Oil and Gas Violations, West Virgina Spills, County by Year, and West Virginia Spills Data. The Utah dataset contains information including violation type, and oil and gas related injury and fatality records. The West Virgina Spills, County by Year dataset is a set up to […]

Come visit the FracTracker Forum

October 14, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

We have posted a new FracTracker Forum to help encourage participation from the community of our readers here at fractracker.org. While it is possible to leave comments on this site and at the DataTool, we haven’t been getting very many. We want to hear your feedback, but more than that, we want to hear your stories, […]

Pennsylvania Violation Data

October 12, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) responded to our request for oil and gas violation information with a list of 9,370 violations from January 1, 2007 through September 30, 2010. That works out to almost seven oil and gas violations statewide per day. Certainly, the DEP has been taking its job very seriously in […]

Drilled Oil and Gas Locations in Utah

October 11, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

By Matt Kelso – Data Manager, Center for Healthy Environments & Communities (CHEC), University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health A new dataset of drilled oil and gas locations in Utah has been added to FracTracker’s DataTool (click on the snapshot of that dataset to the left to see more detail). This dataset was […]

Marcellus Shale Production Data – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

September 21, 2010/by Matt Kelso, BA

By Matt Kelso – CHEC Data Manager As of September 7th, 55 of 73 drilling companies that operate in the Marcellus Shale field in Pennsylvania have reported their production data, which has been compiled into a single Excel spreadsheet by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP). Click here to see the list. This […]