PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`searchOilGasWells`	VA oil & gas wells. wellLayer: active (8.6K, default) \| permittedUndrilled (208) \| plugged (1.97K). Filter county (UPPERCASE), operator (CoName), operationType (Coal Bed/Gas/Oil/Horizontal Gas/Coalbed/Pipeline/Conversion), productionStatus, quadrangle, fiPrefix, bbox/near.
`searchHorizontalGrids`	SWVA 20-acre horizontal drilling grid polygons (~54.6K). Filter Grid_Id substring or FID_Region. Returns Polygon GeoJSON for direct map handoff.
`searchMineralMines`	VA mineral mining permits. status: active (450, default) \| released (1.78K). Filter mineralType (OP/QU/DR/DG/UG/EX/OT), mineName, countyCode (3-letter), applicationType, bbox/near.
`getWellByFiNo`	Single well lookup by FiNo (e.g. 'PW-0004'). Defaults to searching all 3 well layers (active → permittedUndrilled → plugged); pass wellLayer to scope.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, enum values for every filter, and §0 probe notes for any of the 6 services.

About

Virginia Department of Energy (ex-DMME) coalbed methane and conventional oil/gas wells in the SW Virginia Appalachian field, plus 54.6K horizontal drilling grids and statewide mineral mining permits, all exposed via the agency host. Six curated layers: layer 0 Active Wells (~8,602), /4 Permitted Undrilled (~208), /5 Plugged Wells (~1,972); layer 0 Horizontal SWVA 20-Acre Grids (~54,626 polygons); layer 1 Active Permits (~450), /2 Released Permits (~1,776). Section 0 caught: the legacy agency host is dead (empty body), since the public surface migrated entirely to the agency host. layer 8 (NGDS Oil and Gas Wells, 1,257 records) is a duplicate, older subset of DGO_wells (8,602 active) and is dropped in favor of the DGO layer. VA O&G is 73% CBM-driven (Coalbed/Pipeline 4,211 plus Coal Bed 2,085 of 8,602 active wells); top operators are Pocahontas Gas LLC 3,911, EnerVest Operating 3,432, and Diversified Production 819 (96% of records across only 48 distinct operators). Counties are stored UPPERCASE on TblCnName (BUCHANAN 3,956; DICKENSON 2,342; WISE 789; TAZEWELL 757; RUSSELL 646, with 88% of active wells in 5 counties). The mines schema uses 3-letter denormalized codes throughout (TblCnCode county, TblInCode inspector, TblMtCode mineral type: OP open-pit 270, QU quarry 151, DR dredge 12, DG dragline 11, UG underground 2). Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to VA Department of Energy, Oil & Gas + Horizontal Grids + Mining.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable VA Department of Energy with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchOilGasWells with county: 'BUCHANAN' (UPPERCASE) for the heart of SW VA's coalbed methane field, or searchHorizontalGrids for 20-acre drilling-grid polygons.

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 VA Department of Energy, Oil & Gas + Horizontal Grids + Mining connector is ready to use in Claude.