What you can ask
- “What does VA Department of Energy — Oil & Gas + Horizontal Grids + Mining have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent VA Department of Energy — Oil & Gas + Horizontal Grids + Mining records and put them in a table.”
- “What does VA Department of Energy — Oil & Gas + Horizontal Grids + Mining cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Virginia Department of Energy (ex-DMME) — coalbed methane / oil & gas wells, 54.6K SWVA drilling grids, and statewide mineral mining permits. - searchOilGasWells ⭐ active (8.6K) | permittedUndrilled (208) | plugged (1.97K) via wellLayer - searchHorizontalGrids ⭐ 54.6K SWVA 20-acre drilling grid polygons - searchMineralMines ⭐ active (431) | released (1.82K). Filter mineName or mineralType - getWellByFiNo (cross-layer lookup), getServiceInfo §0 caught: Legacy dmme.virginia.gov DEAD — public surface is energy.virginia.gov. Geothermal/8 (NGDS, 1.3K) duplicate of DGO_wells — DROPPED. 73% CBM (Coalbed/Pipeline + Coal Bed). Counties UPPERCASE (BUCHANAN/DICKENSON/WISE 88%). Native CRS EPSG:6591; outSR=4326 reprojects.
Connector ID va-energy
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchOilGasWells
readVirginia oil and gas wells. wellLayer: active|permittedUndrilled|plugged. Filter county/operator.
EntitieswellCounties UPPERCASE. operationType: Coal Bed / Gas / Oil / Horizontal Gas.
searchHorizontalGrids
readSWVA 20-acre horizontal drilling grid polygons (~54.6K). Filter Grid_Id or FID_Region.
EntitiesformationsearchMineralMines
readVA mineral mining permits. status: active|released. Filter mineName or mineralType.
Mineral type is the upstream two-letter Mine_Type code (for example OP or QU).
getWellByFiNo
readSingle well lookup by FiNo (e.g. "BU-12345"). Defaults to all 3 well layers.
Required paramsfiNoEntitieswellgetServiceInfo
readSchema, record counts, max-page caps, enum values, §0 probe notes for any of 6 services.
Entitiesmetadata
