Status of Registry Data

As of November 3, 2021 the Registry has processed production history and reserves data for 14,138 oil and gas assets from 139 countries, creating 450,000 records from about five billion raw data points.

Country Level Data

Three global sources have been used to compile production and reserves data for oil and gas producing countries: the BP Global Statistical Analysis (BP), data held by the Energy Information Administration, an agency in the United States Federal Statistical System (EIA), and the database of the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC). Where national regulator datasets are available, they are used in addition.

The time series for the global sources are as follows:

• BP: oil (1965-2020), gas (1970-2020), coal (1981-2020)
• EIA: oil (1965-2020), gas (1970-2020), coal (1981-2020)
• OPEC: oil (1960-2019), gas (1960-2019).

Project-Level Data by Jurisdiction

• Mexico: Production and Reserves: 413 fields, 19,823 production records, 18,160 reserves records, from about 900,000 data points.
• US Gulf of Mexico: Production and Reserves: 1,317 projects (defined as "fields" in BOEM data), 78,758 project-level production records, 75,642 project-level reserves figures.
• British Columbia, Canada - Production and Reserves: 2,523 projects at the pool or sub-pool level, creating 57,225 production records and about 5,000 reserves records from about six million data points initially.
• USA, state of Texas: production: Data are currently grouped by 1,876 operators across the state, creating 44,228 records. The original source files from th4e Texas Railroad Commission contain over four billion data points.
• Argentina: project-level production and reserves: About 800,000 data points on the Ministry of Economy website interpreted into 21,775 project production records, and 8,660 reserves records for 711 assets.
• the United Kingdom: project-level production: About a million data points on the website of the Oil and Gas Authority, interpreted into 11,196 project production records on 453 projects.
• Global Energy Monitor: About 9,000 project data points covering substantial production in countries which do not release data systematically. Sources include the GEM Global Coal Tracker, which charts over 80% of global coal production at mine level.
• Opgee Research Center, Stanford University: About 350 sizeable oil and gas projects. Data are pulled from the Opgee open emissions model, which has been used to underpin the US State of California's Clean Fuel Standard.
• Colombia: project-level production: About 2 million data points on the website of the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos, interpreted into project production records on 821 projects.
• Colorado
• Netherlands production and reserves
• Norway: project-level production and reserves: About 120,000 data points on the website of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, which operates an extensive open data platform, interpreted into 4,500 project production and 290 reserves records for 118 fields.
• Australia: Queensland
• Australia: South Australia
• Denmark: project-level production and reserves.