This repository contains raw and processed flare observation data for oil and gas producing areas of the Lower 48 States of the US.
Processed Directory
The data contains processed VIIRS data, satellite-estimated Flaring Volumes, state-reported Flaring Volumes both volumetrically and in their CO2 equivalents. This data has been created by synthesizing VIIRS measurements with cleaned and organized well meta and production data sourced from public regulatory authorities in New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota and Colorado.
Note: Ongoing data updates and refreshes will be pushed to this repo.
Raw Directory Raw CSVs of VIIRS flare observation data are in the "raw" directory. These are used by the viirs-flare-code repository (flaringmonitor/viirs-flare-code) to produce Flaring Monitor satellite-estimated flare volumes organized by Operator and by Basin.
Some of these files are over 1M rows and will not open in Microsoft Excel. You should be prepared to edit very large files, or else write code to manipulate them.
Data files are loaded into a Postgres SQL database given Excel file size limitations.
| File Name | Description |
|---|---|
| flaring_monitor_basin_stats.csv | Contains Flaring Monitor satellite-estimated Flaring Volumes and tons of equivalent CO2 emitted for the Permian, Eagle Ford, Denver Julesburg – Niobrara (Colorado only) and Bakken (North Dakota only). Data is available from 2019 onwards and is aggregated at the Basin level. |
| flaring_monitor_company_stats_satellite_modeled.csv | Flaring Monitor satellite-estimated Flaring Volumes and tons of equivalent CO2 emitted organized by Operator. The data is available for Operators in the states of Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota and is available from 2019 onwards. |
| flaring_monitor_company_stats_reported.csv | State reported flaring volumes and tons of equivalent CO2 emitted for Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and North Dakota. The data is aggregated by Operator. |
| flaring_monitor_detailed_observations.csv | Unprocessed satellite radiant heat measurements from VIIRS in MW hours ,associated estimated flared volume and tons of equivalent CO2 emitted by well cluster for operators in Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota. Data is available from 2019 onwards. |
| File name | Description |
|---|---|
| flare_prod.csv.gz | For a given API and month is well expected to be producing oil and/or gas |
| flare_wells.csv.gz | For a given API provides state, location, the most recent operator and operator ticker if available. |
| lower_48_basins.csv.gz | EIA basin map |
| mapping_combined.csv.gz | Mapping of ticker to name |
| reported_flares.csv.gz | Monthly flaring as reported to state regulatory agencies. key_type and key provide a reference to the well or lease record in which this data was found. |
| states.csv.gz | State map |
| viirs.csv.gz | VIIRS radiant heat data for our four states (North Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado) region of interest |
References
[1]. Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng-Chi Hsu, and Kimberly E. Baugh. “VIIRS nightfire: Satellite pyrometry at night.” Remote Sensing 5, no. 9 (2013): 4423-4449.