West Virginia oil and gas data

Where this comes from

Well records come from West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP). 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

• UIC Wells: What the Six Classes Mean and Where to Find Them What a UIC well is, how EPA's six injection well classes differ, why Class II dominates the count, and how to find UIC well records by state.
• WVDEP Oil and Gas: Which Search Tool Answers Your Question The WVDEP Office of Oil and Gas runs six separate search tools. Here is which one answers which question about a West Virginia well, and what none of them show.