Crude Intel
Texas land, wells, pipelines, environmental sites
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Streets
Satellite
Where:
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Where:
everywhere
· scope it from any drawer
Land & survey
Parcels
Zoom to detail
Zoom 6.0
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statewide
TxGIO StratMap Land Parcels 2025
, 253 counties · owner origin from CAD mailing address
Survey abstracts
labelled by abstract number (A-342) · from zoom 11 · click a boundary for its survey
RRC survey grid via data.texas.gov
Section, block & survey
labelled by section and block (Sec 12 Blk 34) · the west Texas and Panhandle grid · from zoom 11 · click a boundary for its survey, block and section
RRC survey grid via data.texas.gov
· same polygons as the abstracts layer
PLSS townships & sections
townships zoom 5–9, sections from 9 · labelled T/R and section number
BLM PLSS CadNSDI
· the survey grid in a PLSS state
Surface management
BLM
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USFS
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NPS
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FWS
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BOR
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DOD
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State
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Tribal
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Private
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· from zoom 7
NM State Land Office LandStatus · federal surface management + state trust lands
Federal mineral estate
All
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oil & gas
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coal
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other
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· from zoom 6
BLM federal mineral ownership
· where the minerals are reserved to the United States
Oil & gas
Pipelines
RRC Digital Map Data, pipelines
· T-4 permitted lines
Natural gas pipelines (EIA)
interstate
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intrastate
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· from zoom 6
EIA Natural Gas Pipelines
· national layer, clipped to the state
Horizontal laterals
RRC Digital Map Data, wellbores
Wells
RRC Digital Map Data, surface locations + API attributes
· twice-weekly release
Oil
Gas
Permitted
Injection
Horizontal
Plugged
Other
well types are filtered in the drawer · zoom 8–10 shows a thinned sample; 11+ every well
Oil & gas leases
Federal (BLM)
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State (SLO)
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· from zoom 8 · click for lessee, status, acres and dates
BLM lease polygons + NM State Land Office active leases
Spacing units
from zoom 7 · click for the unit name, spacing order and formation
OCC UNITS_ACTIVE
· active horizontal spacing orders (no Osage County)
Environmental (all)
Superfund NPL (EPA)
EPA Superfund NPL sites with status
TCEQ remediation sites
Superfund
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IHW corrective action
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VCP
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Brownfields
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Dry cleaner
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MSD
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TCEQ public GIS services
, six remediation programs
Landfills & waste facilities
TCEQ Regulated Facilities Viewer, IHW permits, active landfills
RCRA TSD facilities (EPA)
EPA Facility Registry Service, RCRA TSD interests
Leaking storage tanks (LPST)
TCEQ LPST program
· positions mostly address-geocoded
Petroleum storage tanks (PST)
TCEQ PST registration
EPA regulated facilities (ECHO)
Superfund
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RCRA
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Air
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Water
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Drinking water
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TRI
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· red ring = significant non-compliance · zoom 5–9 thinned
EPA ECHO all-media facilities
· weekly refresh at EPA
Spills & releases (OCD C-141)
Major
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minor
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· zoom 5–9 thinned, the full record from 10
NM OCD incident reports (form C-141)
Seismicity areas
OCC induced-seismicity areas of interest · zoom 5–12 · click for the directive or AOI
OCC INDUCED_SEISMICITY
· ~80 directive and area-of-interest polygons
Emissions & flaring (all)
Flares seen by satellite (VIIRS 2024)
size = flared volume
VIIRS Nightfire flare catalog, Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute
RRC reported flared/vented gas
Form PR, latest month, by lease at its wells · size = MCF
RRC PR gas disposition data set
· code 10 flared or vented
TCEQ point-source emissions (2024)
size = NOx tons/yr ·
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oil & gas SIC
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other
TCEQ Point Source Emissions Inventory
· routine operations only
EPA greenhouse gas reporters (2023)
size = CO₂e ·
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petroleum & gas systems (Subpart W)
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other
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
· via Envirofacts
Reported flared/vented gas (OCD)
form C-115B, trailing 12 reported months, by well · size = MCF
NM OCD C-115B vent and flare reporting
DEQ point-source emissions
size = NOx tons/yr from zoom 10 · zoom 5–9 is a thinned band with no pollutant totals
ODEQ AirWeb emissions inventory
· NOx, SOx, CO, PM10, VOC and HAP tons per year
Infrastructure & water (all)
Transmission lines
width = voltage ·
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100–161 kV
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220–287
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345
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500
HIFLD Open, Electric Power Transmission Lines
· 7,032 Texas lines
Wind turbines
USGS / LBNL U.S. Wind Turbine Database
· 19,464 turbines, quarterly
Solar arrays (≥1 MW)
USGS / LBNL U.S. Large-Scale Solar PV Database
· array footprints, imagery-verified
Rail lines
dashed = abandoned or out of service
USDOT BTS North American Rail Network
· owner, trackage rights, subdivision
Groundwater wells
Zoom to wells
TWDB Groundwater Database wells · 143k · depth, water level, aquifer, use · from zoom 9
TWDB GIS data, GWDB well locations
Aquifers
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major
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minor
TWDB major and minor aquifers
Groundwater conservation districts
TWDB GCD boundaries
· 101 districts
DSD wells
Active
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Pending acquisition
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Pending sale
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Sold
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· ring = DSD interest
DSD Acquisitions & Divestments, Airtable Wells; Master, joined to RRC wells by API · private
Parcels:
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Texas
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out-of-state
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unknown