Drilling Intelligence API

US Drilling Intelligence, Self-Serve.
No Sales Calls.

Historical well-permit records from 27 configured state sources, plus rig counts, DUC wells, and frac completions as normalized JSON. Check the data frontier for each state before relying on recent activity.

OilPriceAPI ships 2.2M+ historical permit records from 27 configured state sources, plus Baker Hughes rigs, EIA DUC wells and FracFocus completions. State freshness and fields vary by regulator.

US permit coverage — 27 configured state sources

Historical breadth, recent-record activity, and alert readiness are different things. The live panel classifies states only by whether the returned dataset contains a permit dated within its 30-day activity window. That is not a completeness or monitoring-readiness claim.

27
Configured state sources
2,291,697
Permit records
12
States with recent-dated records

Records in the last 30 days (12)

Texas · through 2026-07-31Ohio · through 2026-07-27Louisiana · through 2026-07-29Colorado · through 2026-08-02Oklahoma · through 2026-07-30Michigan · through 2026-07-24North Dakota · through 2026-07-29Utah · through 2026-07-23Kansas · through 2026-07-09West Virginia · through 2026-07-16Mississippi · through 2026-07-20Alabama · through 2026-07-19

No records in the last 30 days (15)

California · through 2026-03-26Wyoming · through 2025-03-25New Mexico · through 2026-06-01Kentucky · through 2025-06-10Illinois · through 2026-05-28New York · through 2026-07-02Montana · through 2026-01-01Arkansas · through 2026-07-01Tennessee · through 2023-07-11Nebraska · through 2025-12-20Alaska · through 2026-06-20Virginia · through 2026-06-07IndianaFlorida · through 2020-03-04Pennsylvania · through 2026-05-21

Plus Baker Hughes rig counts, EIA DUC wells, and FracFocus completions — all as normalized JSON.

Query the live permit endpoint

Sign up, copy your key, and make the call. The response includes the source permit dates returned by the selected state feed; this page does not substitute a fabricated sample date.

1. Get your key

Sign up and copy your API key instantly. Free tier, no card required.

2. Make the call

One curl request returns normalized JSON. REST API, standard auth header.

3. Pipe it in

Drop the JSON straight into your model, app, or dashboard. No GUI in the way.

GET /v1/well-permits
$ curl -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/well-permits?state=TX&limit=1"

This is a free-tier call. Sign up, copy your key, run it.

Try it before you buy it

The free tier returns bounded well-permits for one state, trailing ~90 days — enough to wire it into your model and decide. No card, no demo, no annual contract.

Get your free key

Texas monitoring concierge beta

Monitoring is a separate product experiment from existing commodity API and Scale-plan entitlements. Start with a 14-day concierge trial; recurring alerts remain gated on Texas source reconciliation.

Texas Watch

$99/month
  • Texas county and operator watches
  • Email delivery during the concierge beta
  • 14-day concierge evaluation
Join the Texas beta

Territory Pro

$299/month
  • Multiple Texas territory and operator watches
  • Daily concierge delivery and onboarding
  • SMS, webhook, and export preference preview
Request Territory Pro

Need API request entitlements instead of monitoring? Existing commodity and Scale plans remain separate. View API pricing.

Focused drilling signals, with explicit limits

Choose the API for programmatic access or the Texas concierge beta for territory monitoring. Neither offer is presented as a replacement for a full subsurface, land, or production platform.

SurfaceWhat it providesBoundary
Permit APINormalized historical permit records and record-date metadata from configured state sourcesPer-state freshness, fields, and completeness vary
Texas WatchCounty/operator watch and concierge email deliveryBeta; recurring alerts depend on reconciliation
Territory ProMultiple Texas watches, onboarding, and delivery workflowSMS, webhook, and export are preference previews in beta
Not includedProduction, logs, title, decline curves, or analyst serviceUse the regulator or a broader platform for those jobs

When OilPriceAPI is the wrong tool

Use Enverus, Rextag, or S&P Commodity Insights if you need production data, well logs, decline/type curves, GIS/land-title workflows, or a dedicated analyst. We don't do those, and we won't pretend to. Come to OilPriceAPI when you want clean permit / rig / completion data in your pipeline today through a focused self-serve API or Texas monitoring beta.

Frequently asked questions

What drilling data does OilPriceAPI cover?

The historical permit database contains 2.2M+ records from 27 configured state sources. OilPriceAPI also provides Baker Hughes rig counts, EIA DUC wells, and FracFocus completions as normalized JSON over a REST API.

How fresh is the permit data?

Freshness and completeness vary by regulator. The coverage panel reports each state's latest permit-record date and recent-record activity; configured check cadence or a successful fetch is not presented as source-data freshness or alert readiness.

Can I try it without a sales call?

Yes — the free tier returns bounded well-permits (one state, trailing ~90 days). No card, no demo, no annual contract.

What is NOT included?

Production volumes, well logs, decline/type curves, GIS/mapping, and land/title — those belong to Enverus, Rextag, and S&P Commodity Insights. We ship drilling-activity signals only.

How fast can I get data versus an enterprise platform?

About 30 seconds with OilPriceAPI (self-serve sign-up → API key → first call), versus a typical multi-week demo-and-procurement cycle.

Looking for commodity prices instead of drilling data?See Price Infrastructure