This map shows the oil and natural gas wells across the United States. Oil and Natural Gas Well: A hole drilled in the earth for the purpose of finding or producing crude oil or natural gas; or producing services related to the production of crude or natural gas. Geographic coverage includes the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming) as well Oil and Natural Gas wells in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba that are within 100 miles of the country's border with the United States. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) the following states do not have active/producing Oil or Natural Gas Wells: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Some states do have wells for underground Natural Gas storage facilities where these have been identified they were included. This layer is derived from well data from individual states and provinces and United States Agencies. This layer is complete for the United States but further development of data missing from two Canadian provinces and Mexico is in process. This update release includes an additional 497,036 wells covering Texas. Oil and gas exploration in Texas takes advantage of drilling technology to use a single surface well drilling location to drill multiple bottom hole well connections to extract oil and gas. The addition of Well data from Texas results in the addition of a related table to support this one surface well to many bottom hole connections. This related table provides records for Wells that have more than one bottom hole linked to the surface well. Sourced from the HIFLD Open Data Portal for Energy.

This file contains the polygon SDE Feature Class for Federal Fluid Minerals(Oil and Gas) for the Bureau of Land Management(BLM) Montana/Dakotas. Federal Fluid Minerals as well as Federal Lease status and Indian Minerals/Leases are included. Plat maps are used to find federal mineral ownership and the Bureau of Land Management's LR2000 database is used to find current leasing status. Assistance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs is used to find Indian Mineral/Lease status. BLM Field Office with Oil and Gas responsibilities (Great Falls, Miles City, or North Dakota) provide final review of data.

DescriptionThe map shows the location where oil spills and brine spills have been documented by the US Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and the State of North Dakota's Department of Health. LayersOil Spills- Pipeline SpillsThe types and relative volumes of oil spills are shown on the map using different colors of markers and sizes of the markers.Types include: Equipment Failures, Storage Failures, Vehicle Accidents, Wellhead SpillsSource: PHMSA.dot.govUpdated July 2019Uncontained Oil Spills by VolumeSpills that were not contained by the boundaries of oilwell pads were mapped, and the volumes of the spills are shown by the size of the marker.Source: https://deq.nd.gov/Spills/Data from Jan. 1, 2014-July 19, 2019North Dakota Brine Spills by VolumeBrine is the saline wastewater resulting from oil and gas exploration and production. It is enriched with a variety of toxic elements and compounds.Source: https://deq.nd.gov/Spills/Data from Jan. 1, 2014-July 19, 2019ND PipelinesThe layer shows the locations of major pipelines.Source: PHMSA.dot.govUpdated July 2019ND Oil FieldsThe layer shows the areal coverage of oil fields in North DakotaSource: https://www.dmr.nd.gov/OaGIMS/viewer.htmUpdated July 2019North Dakota Flood Plains - Mandatory InsuranceTo proactively assess and address flooding risks to the public, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This program was created by Congress in 1968 to help provide a means for property owners holding federally backed mortgages to financially protect themselves in the event of a flood. Flood insurance is mandatory if you live in a high-risk area and have a mortgage from a federally regulated or insured lender.Source: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/12886Updated July 2019North Dakota Flood Plains - 500 YearThe "500-year flood" corresponds to an AEP of 0.2-percent, which means a flood of that size or greater has a 0.2-percent chance (or 1 in 500 chance) of occurring in a given year.Source: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/12886Updated July 2019North Dakota Flood Plain - FloodwayA "Regulatory Floodway" means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height. Communities must regulate development in these floodways to ensure that there are no increases in upstream flood elevations. For streams and other watercourses where FEMA has provided Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), but no floodway has been designated, the community must review floodplain development on a case-by-case basis to ensure that increases in water surface elevations do not occur, or identify the need to adopt a floodway if adequate information is available.Source: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/12886Updated July 2019