WellWiki provides data, news and history on 150,000 oil and gas wells and counting...

Welcome to WellWiki.org.

Currently, the site contains data on approximately 150,000 oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. By the end of summer, we expect to cover over 500,000 oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Eventually, we hope to provide data on all oil and gas well ever drilled in North America – an estimated 4 million wells since the Drake well in 1859.

Wells:

72,095

Wellpads:

846

Operators:

40,815

Municipalities:

19,438

Counties:

170

States:

0

Impoundments:

19

Wells

Each well is identified by its well number and given a “well page.”

A well page provides information on:

• location
• permits
• associated wellpad
• spudding and drilling information
• violation and inspection data
• production data
• what kind of waste it produces
• where that waste goes

Communities and Companies

A well page links to the details of the municipal community hosting a well, the operating company that owns a well, or the waste operator associated with the waste from that well.

Try browsing from the 37-115-20040 well. Following the "Municipality" link, the Dimock Township page gives a sortable listing of all the wells drilled in this community. A glance at this page shows that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp is a major operator in Dimock.

Search

One of the site’s most powerful features is its search engine. The search tool is designed to allow you to search for anything you know about a well and produce relevant results.

For instance, perhaps you read about the February 2014 explosion at two Chevron wells in Green County. The article mentions the “Lanco” well pad. Entering “lanco” in the search box brings back three wells: 37-059-25887, 37-059-25888, and 37-059-25889.

In its current form, WellWiki.org is primarily “structured” data – meaning facts and figures about wells, towns and operators. The pages are assembled by having a wikibot crawl and scrape a MySQL database. To unleash the site’s full potential, we need interested stakeholders like you to complement these numbers with narrative-driven content, just like with Wikipedia. For instance, in the case of the Chevron Lanco explosion, one of our editors put together a summary of the incident. In another case, an editor created a page about forced pooling, a different type of issue. If you are interested in becoming a WellWiki.org editor, please sign up!

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