Oil & Gas Drilling Permits Tracker (Multi-State)

A daily feed of new oil & gas drilling permits across US states — operator, API number, well name, county, target formation, and location — pulled directly from public state-regulator data. One normalized feed instead of a different website for every state. Pay per permit.

Coverage

State	Basin	Source	Freshness	Permit date
New Mexico	Permian	OCD/EMNRD	to yesterday	✅
Pennsylvania	Marcellus	DEP	to yesterday	✅
North Dakota	Bakken	NDIC/DMR	live (hourly)	newest-first by NDIC file #
Oklahoma	Anadarko	OCC	public feed currently lags ~2 months	✅

Roadmap: Texas (RRC) and Colorado (ECMC) are in development. Request states via the Issues tab.

What you get per permit

state, operator, permitNumber, apiNumber, wellName, county, permitType, permitDate, status, formation, latitude, longitude, sourceUrl.

{
    "state": "NM",
    "operator": "MARATHON OIL PERMIAN LLC",
    "apiNumber": "30-015-58507",
    "wellName": "ATREIDES FEDERAL COM #701H",
    "county": "Eddy",
    "permitType": "H",
    "permitDate": "2026-07-16",
    "status": "New",
    "formation": "PURPLE SAGE, WOLFCAMP (GAS)",
    "latitude": 32.234, "longitude": -104.234,
    "sourceUrl": "https://ocdimage.emnrd.nm.gov/"
}

Why this actor

• Multi-state in one call — the only comparable actors are single-state; this normalizes several states into one schema.
• Official regulator data — stable government ArcGIS services, not fragile website scraping.
• Filter built in — by state, recency (days back), operator, and county.
• Pay per permit — no subscription. Compare: DrillingEdge starts at $29.99 and Enverus DrillingInfo is enterprise-priced for the same category of data.

Pricing

Event	Price	When charged
Actor start	$0.02	Once per run
Permit record	$0.01	Per permit delivered

Example: 500 recent permits across NM + PA + ND ≈ $0.02 + $5.00 = $5.02.

Input

{
    "states": ["NM", "PA", "ND"],
    "daysBack": 30,
    "operators": ["Marathon", "Devon"],
    "counties": ["Eddy", "Lea"],
    "maxPermits": 500
}

• states — which states to pull (see coverage table)
• daysBack — include permits from the last N days (states with a permit-date field)
• operators / counties — optional case-insensitive filters
• maxPermits — cap on records returned

Use cases

• Oilfield services & suppliers — reach operators the moment a new permit drops
• Landmen & mineral owners — track permitting activity in your counties
• Investors & analysts — monitor operator drilling cadence and basin activity
• Journalists & researchers — the public permitting record, structured
• AI agents — an MCP-callable "what got permitted in the Permian this week?" tool (Apify MCP server)

Notes

• Data comes only from public state-regulator systems. No login, no private data.
• North Dakota's public feed carries no permit-approval date, so ND returns the most recent permitted locations by NDIC file number (daysBack doesn't apply to ND).
• Oklahoma's public hosted layer currently lags ~2 months (a regulator-side refresh issue) — it's included but off by default; widen daysBack to see its data.
• Formation is present for NM and OK; PA/ND populate it only once drilling begins (often null at permit time).
• Want Texas, Colorado, more states, or webhook alerts on new permits matching your area of interest? Open an issue in the Issues tab.