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:
72,095Wellpads:
846Operators:
40,815Municipalities:
19,438Counties:
170States:
0Impoundments:
19Wells
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, the type of waste it produces, and 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.
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.
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!
For more information about the people, organizations and technology behind WellWiki.org, visit About WellWiki.