StateImpact's New App Shows Who's Drilling Near You

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Who’s drilling where?

StateImpact’s new inter­ac­tive app answers that ques­tion, by track­ing every sin­gle pro­duc­ing Mar­cel­lus Shale well in Penn­syl­va­nia. The app tells you who owns each well, how much gas it has pro­duced, and what, if any, vio­la­tions drillers have been cited for.

Each well has its own spe­cific URL you can link to or share via Twit­ter and Face­book. If you think there’s more we need to know about the drilling site, there’s a space for you to share com­ments, sto­ries or pictures.

Our app is based on data from DEP’s web­site. The depart­ment updates pro­duc­tion infor­ma­tion twice a year, and refreshes vio­la­tion reports about once a month. The next pro­duc­tion update is sched­uled for­Jan­u­ary. We’ll refresh the app as soon as the new data is public.

Some con­text on the app’s infor­ma­tion: the pro­duc­tion data cov­ers DEP’s last report­ing period, so the total you’ll see for each well is the amount of gas pro­duced between Jan­u­ary and June 2011. The app only tracks pro­duc­ing wells, so the thou­sands of addi­tional wells DEP has issued per­mits for, but aren’t yet pro­duc­ing, do not appear on the site. Finally, a reminder that 1,608 wells doesn’t mean there are 1,608 large drilling rigs dot­ting Penn­syl­va­nia. Energy com­pa­nies drill mul­ti­ple wells on each site.