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Oil and Gas Wells Data Portal

Explore millions of U.S. well records by type and status

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Data Library

FracTracker’s datasets and data sources

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FAQ

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Petrochemical Data Portal

Explore and download data for petrochemical sites and facilities nationwide

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FracTracker Web App National Map

Learn how oil and gas development is impacting communities across the United States and browse user-generated submissions. You can customize the map by selecting which types of development you’d like to show (wells, pipelines, compressor stations, and processing stations) and what types of user reports appear (noise complaints, smells, etc.).

National Energy and Petrochemical Map

FracTracker’s most comprehensive map, which includes oil and gas infrastructure, pipelines, fossil fuel and clean energy power plants, ethane crackers and chemical plants, and more.

Recent National Maps

On this page you can learn more about oil and gas drilling issues that cross state boundaries. Also included are national maps, such as the location of all active oil and gas wells in the U.S.

Pipeline Incidents

Reported incidents from natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines, 1/2010-12/2019

National Pipeline Map

Fossil fuel pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) import and export terminals

Oil & Gas in the U.S.

Active Oil & Gas Wells in the U.S.

FracTracker map of the density of wells by U.S. state as of 2015

Clean Energy Action Maps

Maps of renewable energy infrastructure and movements against fossil fuels

Farms and Fracking

Agricultural production in the U.S. and shale plays and basins

Waste to Energy

Map of U.S. facilities generating energy from biomass and waste

Frac Sand Industry

Frac sand mines & related facilities in North America

Water Monitoring in Northeast

Part of the Knowing Our Waters project

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US Abandoned and Orphaned Wells – updated in August, 2021. See accompanying methodology document for more details on the datasets used.

All FracTracker national datasets, including: upstream and midstream oil, gas, and petrochemical data; Coal mines; Renewable energy; Federal lands (BLM, FWS, Indian Reservations, USFS, etc); and more.

Recent Articles

Oil refinery in Toledo, OH. Photo by Ted Auch.

Testimony On EPA’s Proposed Methane Pollution Standards for the Oil and Gas Industry

January 31, 2023

FracTracker Alliance supports strong federal methane rules and urges further improvements that are needed to curb dangerous methane emissions.

Book Review Part II: ‘Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export: Exporting Energy and Emissions in a Time of Transition’

January 11, 2023

In second installment of this book review, Ted Auch, PhD, reviews chapters 4-8 of Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export. Published in January 2022, this work explores the social dimensions of the global fossil fuel export system, with a focus on public perceptions and responses to new infrastructures.

Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2019. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

Book Review Part I: ‘Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export: Exporting Energy and Emissions in a Time of Transition’

December 19, 2022

In this book review, Ted Auch, PhD, reviews the first three chapters of Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export. Published in January 2022, this work explores the social dimensions of the global fossil fuel export system, with a focus on public perceptions and responses to new infrastructures.

Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining: Environmental BOMB, Not Balm, for the Planet

December 7, 2022

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Since late 2021, FracTracker has been collecting information on cryptomining operations around the United States, and has partnered with Global Energy Monitor to further research, document, and map many more of these cryptocurrency mining operations.

Map of potential carbon capture technology

Letter to Equinor USA

November 16, 2022

A letter written to Equinor USA Operations Manager Chris Golden in September 2022 requesting that Equinor USA cease plans to invest in carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), and hydrogen development in the United States.

Take Action in Support of No New Leases

September 6, 2022

The federal government is accepting comments on a 5-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Program. We need your voice to join in solidarity with communities in the Gulf and the Arctic and call for no new leases.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Fact or Fiction?

August 31, 2022

Extractive industry uses propaganda to protect private profits at the expense of the public interest. According to the evidence, there is reason to believe that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one such scheme.

Does Hydrogen Have a Role in our Energy Future?

June 21, 2022

There has been increasing focus on using hydrogen gas as a fuel, but most hydrogen is currently formed from methane, which could lead to more fracking.

Older National / Multi-State Maps

List of the Harmed

PACWA’s List of the Harmed (May 2013)

Western Bird Habitats

How Oil & Gas Drilling Impacts the Endangered Greater Sage Grouse and Lesser Prairie-Chicken – EcoWatch

Well Water Impacts

U.S. Map of Suspected Well Water Impacts project

Fracking w/Diesel

FracFocus.org wells fracked w/diesel (2011 – Aug. 2012)

FracFocus Wells 2011-13

Well data from FracFocus.org 2011 – June 2013

Train Infrastructure 2014

Train infrastructure 2014

Oil train - Photo by Washinton House Democrats

Koch Industrial Complex

All Koch related locations, number of employees, and revenue generated

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