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.
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Each well is identified by its well number and given a “well page.” A well page provides information on location, permits, violation and inspection data, production data, and where the waste generated at the well goes.
Communities and Companies
From a well page, you can easily click to visit pages with details of the municipal community hosting a well or the operating company that owns a well.
Search
One of the site’s most powerful features is its search engine. If you know something about a well, you can easily find out more about it.
Wells
Each well is identified by its well number and name. For instance, the Renz No. 1 well credited with “discovering” the Marcellus is officially assigned well number 37-125-22074. Each well page lists when the well was permitted, the municipality (e.g., township, borough or city) and county where a well is located, and who operates the well, and which well pad it is associated with. If the well was drilled (or “spudded” in industry parlance), we provide that date too. Where available we indicate whether a well is “unconventional” or “horizontal.” Other data typically include inspections, violation and fines, production history and waste quantities and disposal methods. Soon, we will be adding data on hydraulic fracturing treatments.
Well page
Each well page incorporates a variety of links, from which users may explore different aspects of the well. For instance, from the 37-115-20040 well, users can see its location and well pad, including associated wells. Following the Municipality link, the Dimock Township page gives a listing of all the wells drilled in this roughly 30 square-mile community. A glance at this page shows that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp is a major operator in Dimock. One could sort the list of wells by different parameters. For instance, if the user is looking for the wells in the township that have accrued the most violations, they could sort by that parameter and see that one of the wells, well number 37-115-20040, has racked up 14 separate violations. If the user wanted to see the violation details, they could simply click through to that well. If you wanted, you could also visit the Cabot Oil & Gas Corp page and find out where else this company has oil and gas wells. It turns out that most of Cabot’s Pennsylvania wells are concentrated in Susquehanna County, which is in northeastern Pennsylvania, along the New York State border.
Search
The site is designed to allow you to search for anything you know about a well, and produce relevant results. If you know the name or location of a well or well pad, you can easily find out more about it. 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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For more information about the people, organizations and technology behind WellWiki.org, visit About WellWiki.