Open Data

County Oil & Gas Production Data

Free monthly oil and gas production for 440 US counties across 17 states, aggregated from each state regulator and normalized to a single schema: period, oil_bbl, gas_mcf, co2_mcf. Every file is licensed CC-BY-4.0 — use it in research, journalism, or tools with attribution.

How the data is sourced, refreshed, and normalized: methodology & data sources. Each county also has a page with charts, operators, and permits — linked beside every download. Figures we have published and later found wrong are listed in corrections & errata.

Citing this data

Pointer Minerals (2026). County Oil & Gas Production Data [normalized from state regulator reports]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21728007

The DOI resolves to an archived snapshot with a fixed content hash. This page is refreshed weekly and will usually be ahead of it — cite the DOI for a figure a reader must be able to reproduce exactly, and this page for the current numbers.

For a specific county, cite the county page URL — each carries its own source agency and reporting period. Questions or corrections: [email protected].

For AI agents & developers

Query this data over MCP

This dataset is also served over the Model Context Protocol — a read-only server that AI assistants and agents can connect to for live Texas operator, county-production, and dataset lookups. Every response carries its source URL and license, so answers built on it can cite Pointer Minerals.

https://mcp.pointerminerals.com/mcp

Connect from any MCP client — e.g. npx mcp-remote https://mcp.pointerminerals.com/mcp — then call tools like search_operators, get_county_production, or list_datasets. Public, read-only, CC-BY-4.0.