{"id":"49102e45079445fabdb9b5c0679d96ee","owner":"FracTrackerAlliance","created":1432065021000,"modified":1438624205000,"guid":null,"name":null,"title":"Oil and Gas Wells in the US (2015)","type":"Web Map","typeKeywords":["ArcGIS Online","Explorer Web Map","Map","Online Map","Web Map"],"description":"This map includes oil and gas wells in the United States, with data collected between March and May of 2015.  Altogether, there are 1,666,715 wells represented on this map spread among 35 different states and 1,673 different counties.<\/font><\/span>

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Name:<\/b>  Wells by State<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Date:<\/b>  July, 2015<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Source:<\/b>  FracTracker Alliance, based on various data<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Notes:<\/b>  This layer contains all active oil and gas wells in the United States by state.  The well data were obtained from each state's oil and gas regulatory agency, with the exception of North Carolina, which did not reply to our requests.  The data were aggregated spatially, so errors in latitude and longitude values would be reflected in errors in this layer as well.  This layer disappears at the scale 1:1,500,000, and is replaced with the Wells by County layer, below.<\/span><\/font><\/div>

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Name:<\/b>  Wells by County<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Date:<\/b>  July, 2015<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Source:<\/b>  FracTracker Alliance, based on various data<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Notes:<\/b>  <\/span><\/font>This layer contains all active oil and gas wells in the United States by county.  The well data were obtained from each state's oil and gas regulatory agency, with the exception of North Carolina, which did not reply to our requests.  All other states are based on individual well data, with the exception for Texas, which periodically publishes well totals by county, the most recent being February 2015.  For all other states, the data were aggregated spatially, so errors in latitude and longitude values would be reflected in errors in this layer as well.  <\/span>This layer disappears at the scale 1:500,000, and is replaced with the three wells layers, below.<\/span><\/font><\/div>
Name:<\/b><\/span>  US Oil and Gas Wells (<\/span>Part 1<\/span>)<\/span>
Date:<\/b><\/span>  <\/span>May, 2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b><\/span>  Various state regulatory agencies, FracTracker Alliance<\/span>
Notes:<\/b><\/span>  This layers contains <\/span>active (drilled but not plugged) oil and gas wells in following state:  AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA and WY.<\/span> Well data for Texas (n=291,835) is available, however, it must be purchased, and can therefore not be redistributed. The data is <\/span><\/font>available for download<\/a>, and is accompanied by a text file that includes all regulatory agency names and website addresses.  <\/span><\/font>

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Name:<\/b><\/span>  US Oil and Gas Wells (<\/span>Part 2<\/span>)<\/span>
Date:<\/b><\/span>  <\/span>May, 2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b><\/span>  Various state regulatory agencies, FracTracker Alliance<\/span>
Notes:<\/b><\/span>  This layers contains <\/span>active (drilled but not plugged) oil and gas wells in following state:  AR, IL, KS, LA, MO, ND, NE, OK and SD.<\/span> The data is <\/span><\/font>available for download<\/a>, and is accompanied by a text file that includes all regulatory agency names and website addresses.  <\/span><\/font><\/div>

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Name:<\/b><\/span>  US Oil and Gas Wells (<\/span>Part 3<\/span>)<\/span>
Date:<\/b><\/span>  <\/span>May, 2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b><\/span>  Various state regulatory agencies, FracTracker Alliance<\/span>
Notes:<\/b><\/span>  This layers contains <\/span>active (drilled but not plugged) oil and gas wells in following state:  AK, AL, FL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MS, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA and WV.<\/span> The data is <\/span><\/font>available for download<\/a>, and is accompanied by a text file that includes all regulatory agency names and website addresses.  <\/span>
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Name:<\/b><\/span>  US Oil and Gas Wells (generalized)<\/span>
Date:<\/b><\/span>  <\/span>May, 2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b><\/span>  FracTracker Alliance, based on data from various state regulatory agencies<\/span>
Notes:<\/b><\/span>  This file is to show the location of oil and gas wells at national map scales, while maximizing map performance and accuracy.  It was created by drawing lines around clusters of wells that were within 5 miles of each other.  For this reason, some wildcat wells (the solitary well in Idaho, for example) are not represented on the generalized layer, but do exist on the more detailed data layer (above).<\/span>
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Name:<\/span><\/b>  East Coast Mesozoic Basins
Source:<\/b>  US Geological Survey <\/a>
Date Updated:<\/b>  Sep 02,2014
Notes:<\/b>  In addition to the major shale basins and plays (see data published by EIA, below), some exploration is occurring in smaller basins on the East Coast of the United States, the development of which will likely require a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.  For more information, see the associated report<\/a><\/span>.  In the original data is published by the USGS, each basin is released as a separate shapefile.  The FracTracker Alliance has modified this by combining all of the East Coast Mesozoic basins into a single shapefile.<\/span><\/font><\/p>Name:<\/b>  Shale Plays<\/span>
Date:<\/b>  Jan 8,2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b>  <\/span>Energy Information Administration<\/a>
Notes:<\/b>  Shale plays are locations that contain subsurface, carbon-rich shale deposits.  Not all locations will have economically viable wells, however.  In some cases, shale plays can be developed with a combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.  In other cases, the shale acts as a source rock for hydrocarbons that are more traditionally extracted.<\/span>

Name:<\/b>  Shale Basins<\/span>
Date:<\/b>  <\/span>Jan 8,2015<\/span>
Source:<\/b>  <\/span>Energy Information Administration<\/a>
Notes:<\/b>  Shale basins are broad depositional areas where the development of organic-rich shale deposits is likely.  Often, these areas were once shallow seas.<\/span><\/font><\/div><\/div><\/div>","tags":["Oil and gas","National"],"snippet":"Oil and gas wells in US","thumbnail":"thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png","documentation":null,"extent":[[-180,-4.148],[-8.4039,71.2094]],"categories":[],"spatialReference":null,"accessInformation":null,"licenseInfo":null,"culture":"en-us","properties":null,"url":null,"proxyFilter":null,"access":"public","size":21883,"appCategories":[],"industries":[],"languages":[],"largeThumbnail":null,"banner":null,"screenshots":[],"listed":false,"commentsEnabled":true,"numComments":0,"numRatings":0,"avgRating":0,"numViews":24359}