Data Library

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Browse a comprehensive collection of oil and gas data, including national and state-specific datasets, public data archiving projects, and open-access datasets from FracTracker Alliance.

FRACTRACKER DATA

FracTracker Alliance offers open access to our datasets, including a wide range of national and state-specific data downloads.

Transparency and Open Data
We believe in making all analyzed or visualized data available for public review to ensure its validity. For a detailed understanding of our commitment to data transparency and open access, please read our full data statement. Learn more
Accessing Our Data
Find a variety of maps and articles on the oil and gas industry and renewable energy. Whenever possible, we link directly to the datasets we use.
External Links and Modifications
Download datasets directly from state regulatory agencies or our website if we have made modifications. All modified datasets include detailed metadata.
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STATE DATA SOURCES

Below is a list of FracTracker Alliance’s most commonly used sources for well data by state, sorted alphabetically.

Alaska

Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission provides well permits for the state of Alaska

Alabama

Geological Survey of Alabama Oil and Gas Board provides oil and gas well data for the state of Alabama

Arkansas

Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission provides data on active oil and gas wells in Arkansas

Arizona

Arizona Oil and Gas Conservation Commission provides permit data for the state of Arizona

California

DOGGR provides information about all California oil and gas wells (development and prospect wells), enhanced-recovery wells, water-disposal wells, service wells (i.e., structure, observation, temperature observation wells), core-holes, and gas-storage wells, onshore and offshore (within three nautical miles of the coastline), located on state and private lands, are administered by California’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). Data related to this activity can be accessed through DOGGR’s online resources.
To obtain information on stimulated wells in California, however, datasets often have to be aggregated from multiple sources. Learn more

Colorado

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission provides data on notices of alleged violations to oil and gas operators, pending permits, approved permits, and the subsurface wells (wells horizontally drilled under the ground) in Colorado.

Florida

Florida Department of Environmental Protection provides data on oil and gas wells in Florida.

Idaho

Current oil and gas well data has only recently been made available for the state of Idaho. The data was found from ID Geological Survey and the ID Department of Lands. Learn more

Illinois

Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse provides data on all oil and gas wells in Illinois; LaSalle County Commissioner was helpful in determining those silica sand mines that are involved in the frac sand mining space with proposals being identified by industry reports and local concerned citizens.

Indiana

Indiana Department of Natural Resources provides data on all oil and gas wells in Indiana.

Kansas

Kansas Geological Survey provides data on all oil and gas wells in Kansas by type; Kansas Corporation Commission provided us with Class II injection well locations and volumes with the latter compiled into a usable format by our staff and Caleb Gallemore at Lafayette University.

Kentucky

Kentucky Geological Survey / University of Kentucky provides data on all oil and gas wells in Kentucky by type.

Louisiana

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS) provides data on oil and gas wells in Louisiana. Often the datasets are very large due to the volume of wells in the state, so we try to limit them on our maps by topic. Learn more

Maryland

Maryland does not publish their inventory of oil and gas wells online, but the Maryland Department of Environment did provide the data to the FracTracker Alliance upon request – but may be severely limited. Learn more

Michigan

Michigan DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) provides data on all oil and gas wells in Michigan; Michigan frac sand mines were determined using several DEQ reports and the confirmed frac sand mine locations in Monroe County.

Mississippi

Mississippi Oil and Gas Board provides data on all oil and gas wells in Mississippi.

Missouri

Missouri Department of Natural Resources provides data on oil and gas permits in Missouri; Local concerned citizens have informed our mapping of existing or proposed frac sand mining infrastructure.

Montana

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation provides data on all oil and gas wells in Montana.

North Dakota

North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources provides several free datasets about oil and gas drilling in North Dakota. The agency’s Oil and Gas: ArcIMS Viewer contains download links to a statewide file of wells.

Nebraska

Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission provides data on all oil and gas wells in Nebraska.
Additionally, Nebraska Class II Injection well locational information and annual volumes were obtained by FOIA from Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

New Mexico

New Mexico Oil Conservation Division provides data on all oil and gas wells in New Mexico.

Nevada

Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources provides data on recent oil and gas wells in Nevada.

New York

New York State’s oil and gas well database is updated nightly. It is available as a downloadable .csv file. Go to the section of the website called Well Data Files in CSV Format to download the zipped file (about 2 MB).
You can also learn about New York’s fracking ban and related maps on our site here.

Ohio

Ohio Department of Natural Resources provides data on horizontal Utica and Marcellus permits and laterals, horizontal Utica permits (for waste).
Additionally, FracTracker maintains a data download library on Ohio, ranging from Class II injection well volumes to water demand in the state from the fracking industry. Learn more
Ohio Class II Injection well locational information was obtained by FOIA and quarterly volumes per well are also obtained by FOIA 1-2 times per year by way of the ODNR Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program.
Certified brine haulers and number of trucks has been obtained by FOIA from ODNR UIC.
Historical well permitting, location, and status has been extracted from ODNR’s RBDMS Microsoft Access Database.
Ohio oil and gas water withdrawal volumes were obtained by FOIA from ODNR and were part of an ongoing mapping effort to determine water supply and demand across West Virginia and Ohio.
FOIA has also been used to compile an inventory of Ohio compressor stations.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Geological Survey provides a list of shale wells in the state available for download on their website.
Oklahoma Corporation Commission also provides well data.
FracTracker aggregates additional data, such as injection well datasets, for Oklahoma and makes them available for download here.

Pennsylvania

PASDA – Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is Pennsylvania’s official public access geospatial information clearinghouse.
PADEP – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection provides data on violations for download in their compliance report, wells drilled data in their spud data reports, and a number of other helpful resources for accessing oil and gas data (including unconventional / fracking data) in the Commonwealth.
FracTracker’s Pennsylvania page also has several data downloads, photos, and resources that may not be available from the above sources. Learn more

South Dakota

South Dakota Geological Survey provides data on oil and gas wells in South Dakota.

Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (Oil and Gas Program) provides data on oil and gas wells in Tennessee.

Texas

A significant amount of oil and gas data is available for purchase from the TX Railroad Commission.
Texas frac sand mine data has been obtained by way of industry reports and recently several contacts outside San Antonio where a half dozen mines are being built and/or in the proposal phase. Contact us to learn more.

Utah

Utah Department of Natural Resources provides data on all oil and gas wells in Utah.

Virginia

Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy provides data on all oil and gas wells in Virginia.

Washington

Washington State Department of Natural Resources provides data on all oil and gas wells in Washington State.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission provided FracTracker with a list of facilities that are involved in the production of frac sand mining in the state. Learn more
FracTracker Alliance has also obtained frac sand mine proposals and identified parcels by way of a strong network of county commissioners, concerned citizens, etc.

West Virginia

WVDEP (West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection) provides data on oil and gas wells, as well as the horizontal laterals (under the ground) via their GIS server.
FracTracker also has a rich library of West Virginia data and photos available for download. Learn more

Wyoming

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission provided FracTracker with oil and gas data on wells, horizontal laterals (under the ground), and injection wells. Learn more

NATIONAL DATA SOURCES

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)

We merge the National Transportation Atlas Database with Highway Rail Crossing Inventory Data for the FRA public data.

FracFocus

FracFocus provides information on chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, with publicly-available data downloads in machine-readable format. Learn more

National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA)

Released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), NATA contains air emissions data and models health risks across the country. Learn more

Open-FF

Open-FF transforms FracFocus disclosure data into a usable resource for researchers, journalists, and activists. Learn more

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

PHMSA provides data on natural gas pipelines, hazardous liquid pipelines, and LNG plants. Access raw data, yearly summaries, and safety performance trends. Learn more

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The SEC EDGAR database helps determine variables like company assets, frac sand mine production volumes, and future growth. Learn more

U.S. Census

The U.S. Census Bureau provides population and demographic statistics every 10 years. We use CSV files from state and county level searches in American FactFinder.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The USDA offers shapefiles for US watersheds. We utilize the NRCS SSURGO Database and USDA Geospatial Data Gateway.

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

EIA provides independent and impartial energy information to support policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding. Access mappable data for US Shale plays, basins, and various energy statistics on EIA’s website. Learn more

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)

US EPA eGRID data maps and compares energy generation across states. ECHO data tracks mining and oil and gas facility violations. We also use FLIGHT data to analyze carbon dioxide emissions per MW of energy generated. Learn more

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

USGS offers scientific data on natural hazards, resources, ecosystems, and climate change impacts. It is a primary source for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data. Learn more

PUBLIC DATA PROJECTS

Energy Data eXchange
EDX is an online collection of capabilities and resources that advance research and customize energy-related needs. EDX is developed and maintained by the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) researchers and technical computing teams to support private collaboration for ongoing research efforts, and tech transfer of finalized DOE NETL research products. Learn more
Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
EDGI is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate, inform, and enforce them. EDGI’s data archive project seeks to preserve publicly accessible and potentially vulnerable scientific data and archive web pages from EPA, DOE, NOAA, OSHA, NASA, USDA, DOI, and USGS. Learn more
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
EITI is the global standard to promote the open and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources. The Standard seeks to address the key governance issues of the oil, gas and mining sectors. EITI provides a data portal as part of their open data policy. Data for the U.S. are specific to natural resource management related to federal lands and waters. Learn more
Data Refuge
Data Refuge helps to build refuge for federal data and supports climate and environmental research and advocacy. Learn more
Penn Libraries
UPENN / Penn Libraries provides access to data sets across disciplines. A librarian can provide one-on-one assistance locating and retrieving quantitative or spatial data sets from specialized resources: Data archives, public domain resources, or Penn’s own collection. Learn more

Please note that this inventory was up to date as of April 2018, but links may break or change over time.