Best of Oil gas exploration production

The 10 Best Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Datasets in 2026

10 Oil gas exploration production picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. EIA International Energy Statistics leads — Why it ranks first: breadth per join key.

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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 9/10
    Integrated oil gas

    EIA International Energy Statistics

    Why it ranks first: breadth per join key.

  2. 2 Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker
  3. 3 9/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    JODI-Oil World Database

  4. 4 9/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    NSTA UKCS Open Data

    Per wellbore and per field. one row per producing day.

  5. 5 8/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    Eurostat Energy Database

    Why it ranks fifth: official, methodology-stable balances you can chain across decades without reconciliation work - docked a notch because the geographic frame stops at Europe's borders, leaving the EIA to carry everywhere else.

  6. 6 8/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    Global Methane Emitters Tracker

  7. 7 8/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    Global Registry of Fossil Fuels

  8. 8 8/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    JODI-Gas World Database

    Why it ranks eighth: it completes the hydrocarbon picture its oil sibling opens, with the same administration-submitted discipline; it sits below JODI-Oil purely on scope, since gas flows are a subset of what most upstream models need.

  9. 9 PUDL Raw EIA Archive
  10. 10 8/10
    Oil gas exploration production

    Railroad Commission of Texas Data Sets

Frequently asked questions

What is the best oil & gas exploration & production dataset overall?

On our scoring, the EIA International Energy Statistics at quality 9/10 - country-series-period observations for every producing nation across petroleum, natural gas and reserves, with regional and OPEC aggregations precomputed. If your question is asset-level rather than country-level, GOGET takes it: 7,673 field-level units with owner, status, reserves and annual production across 95 countries.

Which dataset covers crude oil production by country every month?

Two do, from different directions. The EIA International Energy Statistics publish multi-decade annual, quarterly and monthly histories per series for every producing nation. The JODI-Oil World Database standardizes monthly flows - production, throughput, trade, stocks, demand - across 114 economies covering over 90 percent of global oil supply from January 2002, submitted by administrations to one common template.

Is there a database of worldwide oil and gas fields with owners and reserves?

Yes - the Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker (GOGET). Its March 2026 release lists about 7,673 field-level units across 95 countries: 6,481 active extraction areas, 229 in development and 455 discoveries, each carrying location, ownership, status, discovery year, reserves and annual production rows. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels adds consistent CO2e conversions over 46,741 asset records in 89 countries.

Can methane emissions be tied to specific facilities?

Through the Global Methane Emitters Tracker (December 2025 release). It links about 3,475 satellite-detected plume observations - imagery from August 2022 to March 2024 - to 18,023 emitting assets across 166 countries, including roughly 7,400 oil and gas extraction areas plus gas pipelines and LNG terminals. Figures are modelled estimates layered on the asset base, which matters when you weight them in scoring.

What subsurface data exists for real producing fields?

Two full-field releases anchor the catalog. Equinor's Volve Open Field Dataset spans the field's producing life from 2008 with daily per-well production, complete log suites, seismic and reservoir model grids. BGS's Hutton Field 'Oilfield in a Box' pairs 65 wells with a 3D seismic survey. Between them they carry LAS, DLIS, SEGY and CSV families suitable for reproducing published reservoir workflows end to end.