PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`searchFormationTops`	Marcellus + Utica formation tops (~478 control wells). Each record returns formationTops[] with code/name/MD/SS/THK for HURN/JAVA/ANGL/RNSR/MDLX/WRVR/GBRK/TLLY/MNNG/OKCA/B/CHVL/USPG/TRSZ/ONDG/HMLN/MRCL.
`searchOilGasGeology`	WVOG fields by play (~1.2K). Filter fieldType (Gas/Oil/Storage/CBM), play (Mgn/Mbi/Dvs/MDe/etc.), geologicAge, lithology.
`searchGeologicMaps`	Generalized geology age polygons (10). Filter age (Devonian/Pennsylvanian/etc.) or mapUnit code.
`searchMarcellusWells`	Completed Marcellus wells (~5.5K) with production history. Returns recentGas/recentOil + cumulativeGas/Oil. Filter county/operator/targetFormation/yearFrom/minCumulativeGas.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema + record counts for any of 4 services. Returns _nativeServer summary listing all 14 WVGES folders.

About

West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey (WVGES), subsurface geology for the Marcellus and Utica plays. Probed 2026-05-02. Native server at agency data services, 14 folders (Boundaries/CAP/CBMP/Geology/Geothermal/Hosted/LakeTight/OilGas_ATG/OilGas_MRCL/OilGas_WVOG/Utica/Boundaries/etc.). 4 layers consumed: OilGas_MRCL/MarcellusPlusGeology/1 'Control Wells' (~478 with formation tops HURN_MD/JAVA_MD/ANGL_MD/RNSR_MD/MDLX_MD/WRVR_MD/GBRK_MD/TLLY_MD/MNNG_MD/OKCA_MD/OKCB_MD/CHVL_MD/USPG_MD/TRSZ_MD/ONDG_MD plus matching _SS subsea and _THK thickness columns), OilGas_MRCL/Marcellus/0 'Completed Marcellus Wells' (~5,517 with a rich production-history schema: gas_2005..2025, oil_2005..2025, ngl_2013..2025), OilGas_WVOG/WVOG_Fields/0 'Fields by Play' (~1,211 polygons: Field_Type Gas=1019/Oil=142/Storage=36/CBM=14, Play codes Mgn/Mbi/Dvs/MDe/Pps/Dbs/Des/UDs/etc.), and Geology/Generalized_Geology_Ages/2 (10 age polygons, Cambrian to Permian). Critical upstream quirk: MarcellusPlusGeology/1 does not support pagination (advancedQueryCapabilities.supportsPagination=false; queries with resultRecordCount return error 400 'Pagination is not supported'). The handler queries with returnIdsOnly=true first, then fetches features by objectIds in chunks of 100. The other 3 layers paginate normally. WVOG_Fields columns have truncated names: Formation_ (with a trailing underscore), Geologic_A, Discovery_, Number_of_, Pressure_a, Hydrostati, Permeabili, Oil_Satura, Gas_Satura, Water_Satu, Geothermal, Salinity, Depth_of_R. WVOG_Fields has unmasked sentinel values -99999.99/-99999.9999/-99999 for missing data, which the handler treats as null. The Marcellus wells layer 0 has 95+ columns (21 gas_YYYY, 21 oil_YYYY, 13 ngl_YYYY), and the handler aggregates production into recentGas/recentOil arrays plus cumulative totals. Spatial reference varies (102100 Web Mercator for OilGas_MRCL; 26917 NAD83 UTM 17N for some Geology services), so the handler always requests it. Spec drift: the spec mentioned 'searchOilGasGeology' for pay-zone overlays; the closest authoritative source is WVOG_Fields with Play, Lithology, Thickness, Porosity, and Pressure attribution. The Utica/MD_Energy_Investigations_2 service has 160+ layers, but most are project-specific WMA studies (R.D. Bailey, Lewis Wetzel, Tug Fork), too narrow for generic exposure.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to WV Geological & Economic Survey.

Get started

1
Enable Environmental APIs
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true for your deployment.
2
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on WV Geological & Economic Survey with the environmental switch.
3
Start Querying
Call the wv-ges MCP tool, start with method=searchFormationTops or method=searchMarcellusWells.

Connect to your AI assistant

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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.
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Start using
Your WV Geological & Economic Survey connector is ready to use in Claude.