Distribution tables of oil and gas wells by production rate for all wells, including
marginal wells, are now available for many states for the years 1992 to 2004. Graphs
displaying historical behavior of well production rate are also available. To download
data for all states and all years, including years prior to 1992, in an Excel spreadsheet
XLS (8000 KB).
The quality and completeness of data is dependent on update lag times and the
quality of individual state and commercial source databases. Undercounting of the
number of wells occurs in states where data is sometimes not available at the well
level but only at the lease level. States not listed below will be added later as
data becomes available.
The Distribution of Oil and Gas Wells and Production Project was
undertaken on behalf of the National Energy Technology Laboratory with support from the
U.S.PetroSystem to provide a database for analyses assessing the impact of technological
development on marginal gas wells.
U.S.PetroSystem, formed in the spring of 2000, is a cooperative multi-agency program
established for the creation, maintenance and sharing of data used in the study of domestic
and worldwide oil and gas resources, reserves, production, productive capacity, and their
associated technologies and economics. These agencies support this work not only for the
cost effectiveness and efficiency gained from pooling their resources but also for the
shared knowledge gained from cooperation. At present, the U.S.PetroSystem member
organizations include the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the National Energy
Technology Laboratory (NETL), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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