This data release contains several datasets that provide an overview of oil and gas well history and production of the United States, from 1817 to September 1, 2022. Well history data is aggregated into 1-mile and 10-mile squares indicating the total number of wells and counts of wells classified as oil, gas, dry, injection, hydraulically fractured, and/or horizontal wells. Well history is also separated into layers binned on 1-year increments from a well's spud date (date drilling commenced). Production data is aggregated in 2-mile and 10-mile squares that sum the total production of oil, gas, and water volumes. Production data is also separated into layers binned on 1-year increments to reflect the year of production. These aggregations are compiled from data from IHS Markit, which is a proprietary, commercial database. No proprietary data is contained in this release. This data release was updated May 2023 to reflect an offset of 1 year on the original release.

The United States Documented Unplugged Orphaned Oil and Gas Well (DOW) dataset contains 117,672 wells in 27 states. The definition of an orphaned oil or gas well varies across data sources; the dataset includes oil or gas wells where the state indicates that the well is an unplugged orphan, or the following criteria are met: 1) no production for an average of 12 months (6 to 24 months depending on the state), 2) the well is unplugged, 3) there is no responsible party to manage the well for future re-use or for plugging and abandonment, and 4) the location of the well is documented. The dataset includes location coordinates, American Petroleum Institute (API) number, or other identification number, well type, well status, and additional information for each unplugged orphaned well. All data were collected by direct requests to the respective state agency overseeing oil and gas wells or data downloads from their online databases. Location format conversion was performed on wells without coordinate locations using tools provided by the Bureau of Land Management and some state agencies. No other data manipulations were performed to the source data aside from reformatting or the addition of explanatory notes.

United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Completed: Rest of Lower 48 States excl GOM data was reported at 204.000 Unit in Mar 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 203.000 Unit for Feb 2025. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Completed: Rest of Lower 48 States excl GOM data is updated monthly, averaging 362.000 Unit from Jan 2011 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 171 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 971.000 Unit in May 2013 and a record low of 57.000 Unit in Jul 2020. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Completed: Rest of Lower 48 States excl GOM data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RB043: Number of Oil and Gas Wells.

U.S. Federal Oil & Gas Monthly Production & Disposition (2015–2025)

🌎 Project Overview

This dataset provides a comprehensive, cleaned, and analysis-ready record of the monthly production and disposition volumes of U.S. federal oil and natural gas resources from January 2015 through September 2025. Compiled from the authoritative OGOR-B reporting forms and curated by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), it reflects the official federal and Native American natural resource production data.

The dataset captures not only raw production volumes but also detailed disposition categories, which indicate how these resources are sold, measured, or allocated, making it a crucial resource for energy policy analysis, market forecasting, and sustainability research.

🌐 Context & Source Information

• Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior – Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR)
• Original Dataset: Monthly Production Disposition of U.S. Natural Resources Revenue (OGOR-B)
• Coverage: Federal lands, federal waters (Offshore regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific), and Native American lands. Location data is intentionally withheld for Native American production to protect privacy and sovereignty.
• Temporal Scope: January 2015 – September 2025, monthly frequency.
• License: Creative Commons CCZero (CC0) – Public Domain. Anyone can use, modify, and distribute this data.
• Official Landing Page: ONRR Monthly Production Disposition Data

This dataset is a cornerstone for those researching U.S. energy economics, resource management, climate impact studies, and policy development.

📊 Data Dictionary

🛠️ Data Cleaning & Preprocessing

To ensure the dataset is analysis-ready, the following preprocessing steps were applied:

• Missing Value Handling:

  • State / County / FIPS Code: Missing values primarily correspond to offshore records and were logically filled with the label Offshore.
  • Offshore Region: Missing values indicate onshore records and were filled with the label Onshore.

• Data Standardization:

  • Standardized date formats for seamless time-series analysis.
  • Converted numerical volumes from string with commas to clean numeric types.

• Quality Assurance:

  • Verified consistency of commodity labels and disposition codes.
  • Confirmed monthly frequency across the 10-year time span.

These enhancements enable immediate use in machine learning pipelines, econometric models, and visual analytics without additional preprocessing.

🚀 Potential Use Cases

📊 Energy Economics & Market Forecasting

• Model long-term trends in U.S. oil and natural gas production.
• Correlate production with market prices or global economic indicators.
• Forecast supply-demand dynamics using ARIMA, Prophet, or LSTM models.

🌍 Environmental & Policy Research

• Quantify the environmental impact of onshore versus offshore production.
• Assess how federal production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions when combined with emissions datasets.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. energy policies and their evolution over a decade.

📈 Financial & Business Intelligence

• Integrate production volumes into energy sector investment models.
• Build revenue projections and budget impact analyses for federal and tribal authorities.
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This geospatial dataset contains oil and gas wells that intersect either the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service interest or approved boundary or both. Oil and gas wells were obtained from each state and then clipped to these U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service boundaries. An attempt was made to standardize this dataset as much as possible.

A cells polygon feature class was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in the United States. Each cell represents a square mile of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary well data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data are current through 10/1/2005.

A cells polygon feature class was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in the United States. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary well data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data are current through 10/1/2005.

United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled per Rig: Haynesville data was reported at 1.000 Unit in Mar 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for Feb 2025. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled per Rig: Haynesville data is updated monthly, averaging 0.900 Unit from Jan 2011 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 171 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.100 Unit in May 2020 and a record low of 0.400 Unit in May 2012. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled per Rig: Haynesville data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RB043: Number of Oil and Gas Wells.

The drilling history documents oil and gas wells in the Lower Miocene 2 sequence as a whole and in 10-year intervals. The wells included in this interval are determined by completion date and by comparing the depth of the wells to structure contours of the Lower Miocene 2 sequence. The data are provided in a single file (lm2_prod.shp) as well as nine 10-year interval files covering 1910 through 1999.

These datasets contain basic data and interpretations developed and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's Framework Studies and Assessment of the Gulf Coast Project. Other major sources of data include publicly available information from state agencies as well as publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and other scientific organizations. In cases where company proprietary data were used to produce various derivatives such as contour surfaces, the source is cited but the data are not displayed.

This feature class was created to assemble oil and gas well information for a comprehensive inventory of energy data pertinent to the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative decision-making process. These data are available as online resources for scientists, resource managers engaged in the Initiative, and other researchers. The GIS data and map services created for this study are available for interactive analysis and/or download at the Energy Geoscience Center WLCI website.

A complete set of wells associated with oil, natural gas, and coal bed natural gas development in the western states as of June 2004. This is a static dataset even though liquid energy development is a highly dynamic endeavor. Because these well location datasets are generally housed and managed by various state-based agencies (typically the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commissions) a uniform, spatially precise coverage for the western United States has not been available to date. This layer consolidates the best available well location data from ND, SD, MT, WY, CO, NM, UT, AZ, OR, and CA (ID and WA do not report any liquid energy development) and standardizes the attributites. While static as of June 2004 the well status field (SUM_STATUS) identifies 'pending' wells planned at some future data. Also, the user is cautioned that this layer only contains known and reported wells and may not represent 100% of the wells actually on the ground.

This dataset contains USA Crude oil and Natural gas drilling activity , geographic coverage is the 50 states and the district of Columbia from 1949-2021. Data from US Energy Information Administration.Note:Total rotary rigs in operation is the sum of rigs drilling for crude oil, rigs drilling for natural gas, and other rigs (not shown) drilling for miscellaneous purposes, such as other service wells, injection wells, and stratigraphic tests.

County-level data from oil and/or natural gas producing States—for onshore production in the lower 48 States only—are compiled on a State-by-State basis. Most States have production statistics available by county, field, or well, and these data were compiled at the county level to create a database of county-level production, annually for 2000 through 2011. Raw data for natural gas is for gross withdrawals, and oil data almost always include natural gas liquids. Note that State-provided natural gas withdrawals were not available for Illinois or Indiana; those estimates were produced using geocoded wells and State total production reported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency.

In the data file, counties with increases or decreases in excess of $20 million in oil and/or natural gas production during 2000-11 are also identified. See the Documentation for more details.

Currently, an ERS update to this data product is not planned.

A cells polygon feature class was created by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in the State of Illinois. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown or dry. Data were retrieved from the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) oil and gas wells database. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary well data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data are current as of 2006.

This point layer contains the approximate locations of all the Oil and Gas wells within Florida as of February 5, 2025. This layer was designed to provide the Oil and Gas Program with a graphical representation of historic Operational Permitted Oil Wells for planning and management purposes. An Excel table version of this dataset can be found at https://floridadep.gov/water/oil-gas/documents/oil-and-gas-permit-database.

This shapefile contains points that describe the location of hyrdrocarbon exploration and production wells drilled in Afghanistan.

United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled: Haynesville data was reported at 36.000 Unit in Feb 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 40.000 Unit for Jan 2020. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled: Haynesville data is updated monthly, averaging 38.000 Unit from Jan 2014 (Median) to Feb 2020, with 74 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 57.000 Unit in May 2018 and a record low of 8.000 Unit in Mar 2016. United States No. of Oil & Gas Wells: Drilled: Haynesville data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RB022: Number of Oil and Gas Wells.

These well locations were derived from historical mine maps known as the WPA, Ksheet, and Hsheet collections. These locations are provided for informational purposes only and should not be sole means of decision making and are in no way a substitute for actual on the ground observation. In 1859, the United States’ first commercial oil well was drilled in Venango County, Pennsylvania. In the 150 years subsequent to this, an unknown number of oil and gas wells have been drilled in the state. A current estimate by the Independent Petroleum Association of America places that number at approximately 325,000. Of those 325,000 wells, over 200,000 are still unaccounted for. As these wells are found and verified, they are cataloged in the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Abandoned and Orphan Well database to facilitate plugging. There are currently over 8,200 wells listed in this database (2013). With so many unknown oil and gas wells scattered across Pennsylvania and the environmental threats that they pose, identification remains a vital component of DEP’s Oil and Gas Program. Currently, the DEP, Office of Active and Abandoned Mine Operations is involved in many projects dealing with historic and active mine map restoration and geo-referencing. These maps, which vary in age, not only contain information on historic mine locations, but also oil and gas locations. Through collaboration between the Bureau of Mining Programs and the Bureau of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management, potential oil and gas well locations were assembled using three mine map collections. These collections include the WPA mine map collection, Ksheets collection, and the Hsheets collection. From these sources, over 30,000 potential historic oil and gas well locations were derived. The Bureau of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management is constantly looking for historic sources to help locate oil and gas wells in the state that remain unaccounted for. This particular dataset was created using georeferenced mine maps of various/unknown accuracy and various/unknown coordinate systems to various base maps, including but not limited to USGS topographic maps and PAMAP aerial photography. The locations were then digitized using the georeferenced mine maps. These locations are provided for informational purposes only and should not be sole means of decision making and are in no way a substitute for actual field observations.

Geospatial dataset of abandoned oil and gas well locations, plugging statuses, and well/fluid types compiled from United States open-access state databases.

Cell maps for each oil and gas assessment unit were created by the USGS to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in an assessment unit or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells were then coded to indicate whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, are both oil- and gas-producing , or are dry or the type of production is unknown.. The well information was initially retrieved from the IHS Energy Group, PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data were current as of 2005 when the cell maps were created in 2007.