Buckhead Energy publishes compiled oil and gas datasets: drilling activity counted by state and county, drilling cycle times, DUC aging and backlog, lateral-length and formation-mix trends, production distribution by volume band, county momentum and gross production value at benchmark prices, and monthly oil and gas production by county.
Quick answer: Buckhead Energy publishes compiled oil and gas datasets: drilling activity counted by state and county, drilling cycle times, DUC aging and backlog, lateral-length and formation-mix trends, production distribution by volume band, county momentum and gross production value at benchmark prices, and monthly oil and gas production by county. Every figure is an aggregate Buckhead computes from public oil and gas data; figures resting on fewer than 3 wells are withheld, and no operator or individual well is named in drilling figures.
Each dataset below is a set of aggregates Buckhead Energy computes and publishes on its own pages. Every section defines the dataset, explains how it is built and links to the pages that carry it.
Buckhead’s drilling-activity dataset counts, month by month, the drilling permits filed, the wells spudded and the wells reaching first production, by state and by county. It does not attribute drilling to any operator or list any well.
State pages show the last 24 complete months, 12-month totals, and the top 25 counties by permits, spuds or first-production wells.
The US Mineral & Drilling Activity Index and the US Mineral Market Activity Index roll 12-month permit, spud, first-production and DUC-proxy counts up across the leading mineral states, and the permit tracker compares 12-month permits state by state.
12-month totals add only the monthly figures that were published, so they are floors, not exact counts.
Oil & gas permit tracker by state
US Mineral & Drilling Activity Index
US Mineral Market Activity Index
Texas drilling permit activity
Oklahoma drilling permit activity
Texas first-production activity
Cycle times measure how long wells take between drilling milestones: the days from permit to spud and from spud to first production, published as 25th-percentile, median and 75th-percentile values, together with the share of permits that reached spud.
They are published by state (drilling-permit and DUC pages, state activity snapshots and the permit tracker), and by county (the Buckhead county metrics on each county production page).
Cycle-time cohorts: permit-to-spud uses permits 6–36 months old; spud-to-first-production uses spuds 12–36 months old.
Texas permit-to-spud cycle times
Oklahoma permit-to-spud cycle times
Ohio permit-to-spud cycle times
Texas oil & gas activity snapshot
Oklahoma oil & gas activity snapshot
New Mexico oil & gas activity snapshot
North Dakota oil & gas activity snapshot
Colorado oil & gas activity snapshot
Wyoming oil & gas activity snapshot
California oil & gas activity snapshot
Kansas oil & gas activity snapshot
Ohio oil & gas activity snapshot
Utah oil & gas activity snapshot
Buckhead’s DUC-aging dataset tracks wells that have been drilled but have not reported production: how many there are, how long they have waited since spud, and how that backlog has moved over the last 24 months.
Each state page gives the count, days-since-spud percentiles (25th, median, 75th and 90th), a monthly backlog trend and the counties holding the most such wells.
DUC here is a proxy: a well spudded in the last three years with no first production reported yet. It includes dry holes, injection wells and reporting lag, and does not establish completion status.
Lateral-length and formation-mix trends show, year by year, each leading formation’s share of a state’s drilling permits and the median lateral length of those permits.
The trend table appears on formation pages (/formation-<state>/<formation>), which you reach from the state formation directories below.
A formation’s share is its permits as a percent of the state’s permits that year. Median lateral length is published only when at least 5 permits stand behind it.
The production-distribution dataset counts wells by the oil and gas volume they reported in the latest complete month, grouped into volume bands, instead of listing any well.
State pages also rank the counties with the most wells in the top oil bands (3,000 or more barrels a month); the county pages apply the same bands to a single county.
Production bands count wells by reported monthly volume in the latest complete reporting month; bands with fewer than 3 wells are withheld. No well, lease or volume is listed individually.
Texas oil & gas production distribution
Oklahoma oil & gas production distribution
Stephens County, Texas production distribution
Buckhead county metrics summarize a producing county’s activity trend and the historical value of its output: a momentum score that multiplies the change in drilling permits by the change in oil-and-gas production, and gross production value at EIA benchmark prices.
Momentum: 100 means flat. It multiplies permits in the last 12 months against the 12 before by oil-equivalent production (6 mcf = 1 bbl) in the latest 12 reported months against the 12 before.
Gross value: oil and gas are valued separately — oil at the EIA WTI Cushing monthly average, gas at the EIA Henry Hub monthly average × 1.037 MMBtu per mcf — and shown with their total, each rounded to two significant figures. A calendar year is included only when all 12 of its months have published oil and gas volumes and benchmark prices; the page shows up to three of the most recent such years, so a year with a withheld month is skipped. It is gross value before price differentials, deductions and taxes — not any owner’s income and not a valuation.
The same block adds median drilling timelines and the DUC-proxy count. It appears on county production pages (/data/<state>/<county>) where Buckhead has publishable metrics for that county; pick a state from the county-production grid below.
Buckhead’s county-production dataset gives monthly oil (barrels) and gas (thousand cubic feet) production, with producing-well counts, for each U.S. county, parish or reporting area it covers.
Each state page ranks its counties; each county page shows the most recent 60 months and the Buckhead county metrics. A county’s monthly oil or gas volume is published only when at least 3 wells report that commodity.
Production reporting period: 1990-01–2026-09.
Last complete dataset refresh: . Individual counties may contain newer records from a partial refresh.
Reporting periods vary by county and may contain gaps. A missing month is not assumed to have zero production. Production months and dataset refresh dates are different from regulator publication dates.
Every figure in this catalog is Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data: grouped counts, sums, percentiles and indices that Buckhead computes. They are not a regulator's publication, and they are reference data, not a valuation.
Counts: a count resting on one or two wells is withheld and shown as "<3"; a true zero still reads 0.
Medians and percentiles: published only when at least 5 wells stand behind them (shown as "n<5" otherwise).
County oil and gas volumes: a county-month's oil is published only when at least 3 wells report oil, and its gas only when at least 3 wells report gas.
Complementary suppression: a figure that would let a withheld one be recovered by subtraction is withheld too — for example, a subset shown as "all but <3" when the hidden remainder is the small part.
Totals are floors: state, county and 12-month totals add only the published cells, so they can understate the true figure.
No row-level facts: no well names, API numbers, lease names or per-well dates, laterals or volumes are published anywhere on the site, in the API or in the MCP server.
Cadence: drilling activity, cycle times, DUC aging, lateral trends and production bands are recomputed every day at 03:00 UTC (latest recompute dated 2026-10-17). County oil and gas production is rebuilt monthly (last complete refresh 2026-10-06); county momentum and gross value use that monthly production.
Source: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data. There are no downloads.
Buckhead's read-only REST API and MCP server expose a subset of the metrics in this catalog. Every list is capped at 25 rows, and neither serves per-well records or bulk downloads.
REST API: /api/v1 — per-state drilling activity, cycle times, DUC aging, lateral trends, production bands and county momentum, plus a per-county metrics endpoint (activity, cycle times, DUC aging, momentum). It has no county-production or gross-value endpoint. Every endpoint is described in /openapi.json.
MCP server: /mcp — a Model Context Protocol server with the same state and county metrics as tools, plus the last 24 reported months of a county's oil and gas production (get_county_production, list_production_states). It does not return gross value. Discovery at /.well-known/mcp.json.
Buckhead Energy publishes compiled oil and gas datasets: drilling activity counted by state and county, drilling cycle times, DUC aging and backlog, lateral-length and formation-mix trends, production distribution by volume band, county momentum and gross production value at benchmark prices, and monthly oil and gas production by county. Every figure is an aggregate Buckhead computes from public oil and gas data; figures resting on fewer than 3 wells are withheld, and no operator or individual well is named in drilling figures. The monthly county-production dataset currently holds 1,054 county series across 25 states. Each section of this page links to the pages that publish it.
Buckhead Energy groups public oil and gas data and publishes only the aggregates. A count resting on one or two wells is withheld and shown as "<3" (a true zero still reads 0); a median or percentile needs at least 5 wells; and a county's monthly oil or gas volume is published only when at least 3 wells report that commodity. A figure that would let a withheld one be recovered by subtraction is withheld too, and totals add only published cells, so they are floors. No well names, API numbers, lease names or per-well volumes are published.
The drilling activity, cycle-time, DUC, lateral-trend and production-band metrics are recomputed every day at 03:00 UTC; the latest recompute is dated 2026-10-17. County oil and gas production, which also feeds the county momentum and gross-value figures, is rebuilt monthly, with at least one county series containing records through Sep 2026. Reporting periods differ by county, and a production month is not a regulator publication date.
No. The figures are Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data. They are reference data, not a valuation, appraisal or investment advice.
Yes, for a subset of these metrics. The read-only REST API at https://www.buckheadenergy.com/api/v1 has state endpoints for drilling activity, cycle times, DUC aging, lateral trends, production bands and county momentum, and a per-county metrics endpoint; it has no county-production or gross-value endpoint. The MCP server at https://www.buckheadenergy.com/mcp offers the same state and county metrics as tools, plus the last 24 reported months of a county's oil and gas production; it does not return gross value. Every list is capped at 25 rows, and neither serves per-well records or bulk downloads. Endpoints are described in https://www.buckheadenergy.com/openapi.json and https://www.buckheadenergy.com/.well-known/mcp.json.
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