Permian Basin • Orphan Well Intelligence

Turn Idle Wells Into
Actionable Data

IdleWellData aggregates regulatory filings, production history, and liability scores across every orphan well in the Permian Basin — giving operators and state agencies the intelligence to act with confidence.

// PERMIAN BASIN — LIVE SNAPSHOT
ACTIVE QUERYRUNNING
REGIONTX-PB-WEST • NM-PB-EAST
ORPHAN WELLS INDEXED14,823
COUNTIES COVERED29
AVG LIABILITY SCORE72.4 / 100
LAST DATA SYNC2026-04-03 16:00Z
$4.2B
Est. plug cost
312
High-opportunity wells
89%
Data completeness
6.1yr
Avg idle duration
14K+

Orphan Wells in the Permian

Tens of thousands of idle and orphaned wells dot the basin — each a potential liability, and a potential opportunity hiding behind fragmented, agency-siloed data.

$4B+

Estimated Plugging Liability

Operators and regulators face mounting pressure from EPA, state agencies, and communities. Without prioritization intelligence, every dollar spent is a guess.

6 Agencies

Siloed, Incompatible Records

RRC, NMOCD, EPA, USGS, county filings — the data exists, but it's scattered across incompatible systems, formats, and update schedules.

Built for Both Sides of the Well

Independent O&G Operators

Find Opportunity, Minimize Risk

Screen every orphan well in your target county by liability score, depth, last production date, and plugging cost estimate — before you commit a dollar.

  • County-level well opportunity rankings
  • Composite liability & reclamation cost scores
  • Production history & formation data overlays
  • Regulatory compliance gap flags
  • Exportable due-diligence reports
State Regulatory Agencies

Accelerate Reclamation Programs

Match operators to high-priority orphan wells, track reclamation progress, and surface liability concentrations before they become headline incidents.

  • Basin-wide well status dashboards
  • Operator-well matching recommendations
  • Reclamation milestone tracking
  • High-risk cluster alerts
  • Agency-ready compliance reporting

From Fragmented Records to Ranked Intelligence

01

Ingest

Automated pipelines pull from RRC, NMOCD, EPA, and county databases on a rolling schedule.

02

Normalize

Records are cross-referenced, deduplicated, and standardized into a unified well schema.

03

Score

Each well receives a composite score: liability exposure, opportunity index, and regulatory urgency.

04

Act

Operators and regulators query ranked results, export reports, and coordinate reclamation directly.

Built on Primary Regulatory Data

Texas RRC
Orphan well program, wellbore database, W-3 plugging filings, drilling permits, production history
Texas Open Data
Socrata API — wellbore plugging intervals, well bottom locations (1M+ NAD83 coordinates)
USGS DOW
Documented Orphaned Wells — independent verification & cross-reference dataset (Dec 2021)
NETL GOGI
Global Oil & Gas Features Database — refineries, processing plants, storage, infrastructure
IIJA / Federal
Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act grant wells — federally funded plugging records
P5 Registry
RRC operator registry — 100K+ operators with contact, status & organizational type

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