Texas oil and gas data

Where this comes from

Well records come from Texas Railroad Commission (RRC). Facility and emissions layers, where present, come from EPA programs including GHGRP, NEI and ECHO, and from PHMSA for pipeline incidents. Atlas normalises these into one schema and joins them on the well API number.

Regulatory data has limits worth knowing. It does not capture failure-mode emissions, it can carry operator reporting errors, and it lags current conditions. Every figure above is a count of what the agency published, not an independent measurement.

Analysis

• Permian Basin Oil Fields: Every Well, County and Operator The Permian Basin holds 389,187 wells on record across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Counts, counties, operators, and 2024 production, on one map.
• Texas Oil Fields: 65,000 Names and Two Drilling Eras Texas files 65,038 field designations that roll up to 23,923 fields. Most contain no horizontal well at all, and a few hundred hold the shale inventory.
• Saltwater Disposal Wells: How Many, and Where to Find Them How many saltwater disposal wells seven states report, why the disposal and enhanced recovery split is not comparable between them, and where the records live.
• RRC GIS Viewer: The Texas Railroad Commission Public Map The Texas Railroad Commission's public GIS viewer maps wells, pipelines, and surveys in 22 layers. What each shows, and where production and permits live.
• Oil Field Map: How to Find Any Named Field's Wells An oil field is one state agency's label, not a national object. What a field name means in the well records, and how to map one in Texas, Colorado, or Wyoming.
• UIC Well Classes: Class II, Class VI, and Where to Look What a UIC well is, how EPA's six injection well classes differ, why Class II dominates and Class VI carries carbon storage, and where records live.
• RRC Wellbore Query: How to Search Texas Well Records Online Search any Texas well by API, operator, or lease in the RRC Wellbore Query, one of the Commission's Online Research Queries, plus where production lives.
• Natural Gas Pipeline Map: Lines, Operators, and Safety A natural gas pipeline map with gathering versus transmission lines, operator mileage, and PHMSA safety records, shown with the Texas network on Atlas.
• Southern Permian Oil Jumped 14% in 2024: Emissions Impact Southern Permian oil (RRC District 7C) jumped 14% to 186M barrels in 2024. Compliance and ops implications for associated gas and methane intensity.