Measured demand probe

Would joined flaring authorization and observation data replace manual compliance research?

A measured demand probe for a well- and operator-level dataset joining regulatory flare/vent exceptions, reported volumes, and satellite observations. This is research, not an available OilPriceAPI product.

Who this tests: Methane and ESG software teams, lenders, insurers, operators, researchers, and county or state analysts who reconcile what was authorized, reported, and observed.

Demand evidence so far

Keywords Everywhere, United States, 2026-09-02: “oil and gas flaring” 170 estimated searches/month and “flaring data” 30/month; Texas- and Permian-specific terms were 10/month each.
Exa surfaced active open-source work joining VIIRS observations with regulator well and production records, validating that the normalization job is real even though exact API-intent search volume is small.
Production API logs did not contain a attributable flaring-series request in the latest daily refused-demand ledger, so this probe must not be promoted as customer-proven demand.

Smallest useful dataset

Flare/vent exception application, authorization period, permitted volume, operator, lease, and API number where supplied.
Monthly reported flared or vented volumes with source period and revision provenance.
Satellite observation cluster, estimated volume, confidence, and well-pad/operator match method.
Explicit unmatched and ambiguous records instead of silent operator attribution.

Decision contract

Primary metric

Human-reviewed workflow-evidence submissions per 100 consented experiment exposures; PostHog measures the submission and the operational inbox records the evidence needed to classify it.

Continue when

✓ At least five qualified workflow conversations, including two teams that currently join two or more source classes manually.
✓ At least two design partners provide representative reconciliation cases and accept a bounded sample evaluation.
✓ A source probe reaches at least 95% audited field accuracy for one state without hiding ambiguous matches.

Stop or redesign when

× Interest is primarily educational and no buyer has a recurring authorization-versus-observation workflow.
× Required attribution or licensing cannot support the target workflow at viable cost.

Inspectable sources

Texas RRC Statewide Rule 32 query

Applications submitted since May 2, 2021 and authorized-exception PDFs for approved applications.

Texas RRC downloadable datasets

Official regulatory, field, well, and production download surfaces with source-specific formats and cadences.

Flaring Monitor open datasets

An existing open implementation combining VIIRS observations with public regulator records across several producing states.

Does this replace work you do today?

Tell us which sources you reconcile, how often, and what decision the joined data changes. Prompt views, clicks, and successful submissions are measured separately; only a reviewed workflow submission counts as qualified demand.

Contribute workflow evidence