This data release contains spatial data on the location, number, size and extent of energy-related surface disturbances on the Colorado Plateau of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico as of 2016. The database includes: 1) polygons of oil and gas pads generated from automated and manual classification of aerial imagery, and 2) polylines of roads derived from the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefile, supplemented with additional oil and gas access roads digitized from aerial imagery. Pad polygons and road segments are attributed with a "spud year" date based on spud information from the nearest well point. Spudding is the process of beginning to drill a well in the oil and gas industry, and the spud year is a close approximation of when the access roads and pads were cleared for development. The spud year information can be used to develop a chronology of oil and gas surface disturbances across the study region. The remote sensing-based pad mapping captures bright soil of disturbed areas on active pads (not reclaimed areas or other features), and is likely an underestimate of the actual pad size in many areas. The remote sensing mapping methods may also capture areas of bright soils that are not part of a pad, especially in locations surrounded by very bright desert soils.

This geospatial data includes oil and gas wells within the Colorado portion of the Raton Basin, as of January 2005. It includes a subset of over 60,000 existing and proposed oil and gas well locations within the State of Colorado. The well point data represent permitted locations, most of which have been drilled and completed, or drilled and abandoned. Some permitted locations were never drilled; these locations are also included in the shapefile. Selected well identification numbers and other header information are provided as attributes. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) is the official repository for Colorado's oil and gas information. Links to the COGCC website and to the shapefile (WELL_SHP), which were used to develop this geospatial data, are provided in the Cross-Reference section in these metadata.

Oil and Gas Active and Plugged Wells as reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Colorado Oil and Gas Association

Oil and Gas Weekly/Monthly Well Activity as reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Digitization of a selection of oil and gas well pad sites in the Piceance region of Western Colorado. A random sample of 146 pad locations from the "Digitized Piceance Oil and Gas Pads of Western Colorado, 2015" were used to identify the locations digitized in this dataset. The 146 polygons spatially intersect polygons in the 2015 shape file, but are not completely contained within the 2015 polygons. Well pad sites were delineated using a modified version of the Rapid Land Cover Mapping protocol (Preston and Kim, 2016). The base imagery used to delineate boundaries is the 2005 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Oil and Gas Extraction (211) in Colorado (COOILGASNGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about extraction, mining, CO, oil, gas, GSP, private industries, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

This dataset is based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) resource assessments for “undiscovered” natural gas liquid resources, which are resources that have not yet been extensively proven by drilling (USGS 2014). Individual resource assessments describe the amount of petroleum resources in units with similar geologic features. We quantified the density of natural gas liquid resources by adding together the amounts in spatially overlapping assessment units and dividing these totals by polygon areas. Since assessments for geologic areas used in this analysis were completed at various times, the certainty related to these values is likely to vary according to geologic unit. USGS [U.S. Geological Survey]. 2014. Energy Resources Program. Oil and gas: assessments data. Department of the Interior, Reston, Virginia, USA.

Oil and Gas Production and Sales by County (1999 - Present) - Database Search provided by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Well data were mined from Geothermal Prospector (GTP), Southern Methodist University (SMU), the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), and the Colorado Geological Survey (CGS). The well data gathered was then used to assess sedimentary geothermal feasibility in the Denver Basin, the Piceance Basin, and the Raton Basin.

Oil and Gas Water Well Data reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

This dataset is based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) resource assessments for “undiscovered” gas resources, which are resources that have not yet been extensively proven by drilling (USGS 2014). Individual resource assessments describe the amount of petroleum resources in units with similar geologic features. We focused on the amount of undiscovered continuous gas because technological advances have made exploitation of continuous resources increasingly profitable and large amounts remain undeveloped in comparison with conventional resources. We quantified the density of continuous gas resources by adding together the amounts in spatially overlapping assessment units and dividing these totals by polygon areas. Since assessments for geologic areas used in this analysis were completed at various times, the certainty related to these values is likely to vary according to geologic unit. USGS [U.S. Geological Survey]. 2014. Energy Resources Program. Oil and gas: assessments data. Department of the Interior, Reston, Virginia, USA.

This data release contains several datasets that provide an overview of oil and gas well count, as well as oil, gas, water production, and water injection volumes in counties that overlap the Colorado River Basin in 2015 and 2019. Data are aggregated in 2-mile squares and are compiled from data from S&P Global, which is a commercially available database. No proprietary data is contained in this release.

Oil and Gas Mechanical Integrity Test (MIT) Data reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Oil & Gas Production By County 1995-2000 as reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Oil and Gas Production Report 2005 as reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Gas Production by Operator 1998 as reported by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

The USGS Central Region Energy Team assesses oil and gas resources of the United States. The onshore and State water areas of the United States comprise 71 provinces. Within these provinces, Total Petroleum Systems are defined and Assessment Units are defined and assessed. Each of these provinces is defined geologically, and most province boundaries are defined by major geologic changes. The San Juan Basin Province is located in South Western Colorado and North Western New Mexico, encompassing all or parts of Montezuma, La Plata, and Archuletta Counties in Colorado and all or parts of San Juan, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Mckinley, Bernalillo, and Cibola Counties in New Mexico. The main population centers within the study area are Durango Colo.; and Farmington, New Mexico. The San Juan River and Animas River and their tributaries drain the area. The province boundary was drawn to include the geologic structures generally considered to be in or bounding the San Juan Basin

The USGS Central Region Energy Team assesses oil and gas resources of the United States. The onshore and State water areas of the United States comprise 71 provinces. Within these provinces, Total Petroleum Systems are defined and Assessment Units are defined and assessed. Each of these provinces is defined geologically, and most province boundaries are defined by major geologic changes. The Denver Basin Province is located in eastern Colorado, western Nebraska, southern South Dakota, and eastern Wyoming encompassing all or parts of Pueblo, El Paso, Crowley, Lincoln, Kit Carson, Elbert, Teller, Douglas, Jefferson, Denver, Arapahoe, Adams, Washington, Yuma, Morgan, Weld, Broomfield, Boulder, Larimer, Logan, Sedwick, Freemont, and Phillips Counties in Colorado. All or parts of Cheyenne, Deuel, Kimball, Banner, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Garden, Sheridan, Box Butte, Sioux, and Dawes Counties in Nebraska. All or parts of Laramie, Platte, and Goshen Counties in Wyoming, and all of parts of Custer, Fall River, and Shannon Counties in South Dakota. The main population centers within the study area are Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Greeley Colo.; Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The main highways, I-70 and I-80 generally traverse the area from east to west, while I-25 generally traverse the area from north to south. The province boundary was drawn to include the geologic structures generally considered to be in or bounding the Denver Basin.