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Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production History of the United States (ver. 1.1, April 2023)

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.

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Author(s) Christopher C Skinner orcid, Robert F Miller orcid, Scott A Kinney orcid, Nicholas J Gianoutsos orcid, Gregory Gunther orcid, Chilisa M Shorten
Publication Date 2022-09-27
Beginning Date of Data 1817-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2022-09-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UIR5HE
Citation Skinner, C.C., Miller, R.F., Kinney, S.A., Gianoutsos, N.J., Gunther, G., and Shorten, C.M., 2022, Aggregated Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production History of the United States (ver. 1.1, April 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UIR5HE.
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Metadata Date 2023-05-25
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License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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