PatchOps

Available tools

6 tools

Tool	Description
`searchWells`	PA O&G wells (~224K total). Filter county/operator/status/wellType/wellConfig/wellCategory.
`searchPermits`	PA drilling permits, wells with PERMIT_DATE in window. Default unconv, last 365 days.
`getWellByApi`	Single well lookup by PA permit number (e.g. '003-22621'). PA does NOT use 14-digit API.
`searchOrphanedWells`	PA abandoned + orphaned wells (~27K). DEP Orphan List + DEP Abandoned List + Abandoned.
`searchViolationsAndComplaints`	PA DEP Complaints (~39K). DEP doesn't publish violations as Feature Service.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema + record counts for any of the 4 services.

About

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Oil & Gas Management. PA's quirk: the O&G regulator lives under DEP (the environmental agency), not a separate Railroad Commission analog. ~25,039 Unconventional Wells (Marcellus + Utica horizontals; Range Resources Appalachia, EQT, Coterra dominant). ~198,856 Conventional Wells (legacy vertical oil + gas). PA does NOT use a 14-digit API number. Wells are keyed by `PERMIT_NUMBER` like `003-22621` (county prefix plus sequential). WELL_STATUS distinct values (probed): Active (104,612), Plugged OG Well (52,035), Operator Reported Not Drilled (26,816), DEP Abandoned List (14,979), Proposed But Never Materialized (8,071), DEP Orphan List (6,341), Abandoned (6,101), DEP Plugged (3,746), Cannot Be Located, Regulatory Inactive Status, Duplicate, Uncharted Mined Through. WELL_CONFIG_CODE: Vertical Well (199K conv), Horizontal Well (23K unconv), Deviated Well, Undetermined. WELL_TYPE: GAS (112K), OIL (70.7K), COMB. OIL&GAS, INJECTION, COALBED METHANE, STORAGE WELL. ~27,421 Abandoned and Orphaned Wells (DEP Orphan List + DEP Abandoned List + Abandoned). DEP does NOT publish a violations Feature Service; eFACTS is web-UI only. The Complaints layer (~39,305) is used as a proxy: TYPE_DESC includes Mine Subsidence (9,865), Water Contamination (5,660), Land Contamination (5,369), Air Contamination (4,337), Spill Response, etc. Production reports are NOT a Feature Service either; they are distributed as XML feeds at an agency host, and the spec method `searchProductionReports` was dropped. Washington / Bradford / Susquehanna / Greene counties dominate the Marcellus core.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to PA DEP Bureau of Oil & Gas Management.

Get started

1
Enable Energy APIs
Set ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS=true for your deployment.
2
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on PA DEP Bureau of Oil & Gas with the energy switch.
3
Start Querying
Call the pa-dep-oilgas MCP tool, start with method=searchWells or method=searchPermits.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
6
Start using
Your PA DEP Bureau of Oil & Gas Management connector is ready to use in Claude.