Map · well lookup
Look up any West Virginia well.
Searching the state survey’s well database. A name search across every record takes a few seconds.
Map · well lookup
Searching the state survey’s well database. A name search across every record takes a few seconds.
Map · well lookup · public record
Reading the state survey’s record for this well, the parcel beneath it, and what is permitted around it. This usually takes a few seconds the first time a well is opened.
Map · well lookup · public record
API 47-077-00004, Portland district, Preston County. What the state survey records for this well, what is happening around it, and what none of that says about who owns the minerals beneath it.
Opens the map centered on the recorded surface location, with the tax district the counts below use outlined and the parcels around it. For a horizontal well the lateral runs underground away from that point, and the survey does not draw that path.
No production rows for this API number in the state reports on file here (Operator-reported volumes by well, filed with the state and not audited by it. Annual reports 1985 to 2025, monthly detail since 2016; horizontal wells through month 6 of 2026.). A permitted or plugged well reports nothing; a producing well missing here may have reported under a different API suffix.
The surface parcel is the county assessor’s record of who owns the land at the marker. Minerals are often severed from the surface and held by someone else; the parcel is a place to start in the deed index, not an answer.
One API number can carry several records: the original location, a deviated location, a recompletion, a plugging. The page summary above uses the most recent.
In Portland district of Preston County the survey lists 2 permits not yet completed and 0 wells completed since 2025. The largest permit holder in the district is Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC with 2.
| API | Lease / well | Operator | Formation | Status | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
47-077-00115 | — | Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC | — | Permitted | — |
47-077-00014 | Terra Alta South | Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC | — | Permitted | — |
Is a cousin on this lease too? Inherited interests are usually shared among relatives. Send them the page; nothing about you travels with it.
13 wells completed since 2016 and 4 permits outstanding in this county. The operator page shows every county, the formations it targets, and news that names it.
Compare the API number and the operator. The survey records the operator at completion and the current producing operator when they differ; your statement shows whoever pays you now. If the lease name differs, that is common: operators rename units. If the API number is not here at all, say so in a case and a researcher checks the regulator's records.
Not necessarily. The mineral owner field is what the operator listed when it filed, and the interest may have been sold, divided, or passed through an estate since. It is exactly the kind of lead a free screening follows into the county records.
Yes. Enter your email in the watch box on this page. Every Monday you get one email with the well's operator and status, the newest production the state has for it with the change from the month before, any permit activity on it, and the county report. Same-day alerts for a status or operator change are planned. Watching a well is never treated as interest in selling.
The survey updates its database from state permit and completion records on its own schedule and does not guarantee completeness. This site re-reads it daily; the current year is always partial.
Preston County pipeline
Permitted and completed wells by year, and who holds the permits.
Operators in Preston County
Ranked by wells completed and permits held.
What an interest is worth
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