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The 10 Best Oil & Gas Drilling Datasets in 2026

10 Oil gas drilling picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. BSEE Well API multiregional query leads — It ranks second because it is the only record that covers the entire federal offshore estate at borehole grain with daily cadence.

  • 10ranked picks
  • 64documented fields on stage
  • 0/6with mapped coverage

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

  1. 1 AER Alberta Energy Outlook
  2. 2 9/10
    Oil gas drilling

    BSEE Well API multiregional query

    SURF_AREA_CODE · SURF_BLOCK_NUMBER · SURF_LEASE_NUMBER …+4 more

    It ranks second because it is the only record that covers the entire federal offshore estate at borehole grain with daily cadence.

  3. 3 9/10
    Oil gas drilling

    Colorado ECMC Data Portal

    API_Label · Operator · Well_Name / Well_Num / Well_Title …+10 more

    Production at well-facility-month level. permits, locations and facilities as individual records.

  4. 4 Texas RRC data sets for download
  5. 5 USGS aggregated drilling production history
  6. 6 9/10
    Oil gas drilling

    BSEE Data Center

    Lease Number · Area Code / Block Number · Production Month …+7 more

    Well/borehole, lease, block, platform, pipeline and company level. monthly production periods.

  7. 7 8/10
    Oil gas drilling

    EIA Drilling Productivity Report

  8. 8 8/10
    Oil gas drilling

    FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry

    DisclosureId · APINumber · JobStartDate …+24 more

    Eighth because it answers a question no well registry touches: what went down the hole, ingredient by ingredient.

  9. 9 8/10
    Oil gas drilling

    EIA rotary rig counts

    Date · Rotary rigs in operation (total U.S.) · Rotary rigs, onshore …+4 more

  10. 10 NDIC Oil Gas Division

Frequently asked questions

What is the single best oil & gas drilling dataset?

The AER's ST98 Alberta Energy Outlook, on our scoring. Quality 9/10 with eleven companion data files resolving Alberta well activity to PSAC area and formation from 1999, reserves and supply-side detail alongside - and the only ten-year forward forecast in the slice, projecting drilling to 2034. No US record predicts activity; every one of them reports it after the fact.

Which dataset has the longest historical coverage?

USGS's Aggregated Drilling and Production History: every US well from September 1817 through September 2022, binned into 1-mile and 10-mile grid squares and by calendar year, with counts split oil, gas, dry, injection, horizontal and fractured. For rig activity specifically, EIA's rotary rig series runs from 1949; Wyoming's point layer spans 1900-2020.

Do these records include well locations I can map?

Yes, at three grains. Point geometry: Colorado ECMC serves 124,387 well points with lat/long and UTM, NDIC lists 43,824 Bakken wells with surface coordinates and legal descriptions, Wyoming ships about 202,888 points with basin and field names. Grid geometry: USGS aggregates national wells into 1-mile squares. Offshore: BSEE codes both surface and bottomhole lease blocks per borehole.