Your analysts are too busy to build in-house data tooling. It matters, but it takes time to do correctly — and that time is a luxury most teams don't have. NWIP handles it for you. Your subscription delivers both halves of the product: the structured data as files you own and query in your own tools, and access to the live NWIP web application you log into to explore that same data in the browser. NWIP currently spans two states — Texas and Colorado — with the data and the platform both in active development, and more states on the way.
NWIP is built on the same public record ECMC and RRC publish — that's the point. Here is what "free" actually costs, and what buying past it gets you.
RRC's query system carries the agency's own note that the data is not an authoritative record — verification is your job. NWIP hunts defects against a numbered data-fidelity register and renders silent source blanks as honest absence, never zero-filled. When the state itself won't stand behind the numbers, any deal model or compliance filing built on them carries that risk as yours. The register exists so you know what's solid, what's flagged, and what's honestly absent — before you commit capital to it.
RRC's deep data ships as mainframe extracts in EBCDIC with packed COBOL fields — 28 record layouts in the wellbore manual alone — and ECMC splits across a dozen one-record inquiry systems and a scanned-image archive. That decoding, extraction, and normalization is already done here. An engineer-month of COBOL decoding costs more than a year of NWIP — and it leaves you with a pipeline to maintain before you can ask a single question. Your first query here runs today.
Two agencies, incompatible schemas, no shared keys. NWIP normalizes both states onto one well key, with crosswalks built where the sources never linked. You can't size a counterparty's real position when their Colorado wells and Texas wells live in systems that don't speak. One key across both states means operator exposure is one query.
The portals answer one record per web form; NWIP's files answer a county, an operator, a basin in one pass. Screening acreage, flagging plugging liabilities, finding every well that matches a risk profile — the questions that find money and find trouble are population questions, and web forms structurally cannot ask them. NWIP asks them in one pass.
Decades of filings sit in the state archives as scanned images; NWIP OCR-extracts them into queryable rows with extraction quality labeled per record, alongside production history as parsed data. Legacy wellbores on your acreage, decades of production behavior, old plugging records — the liabilities and the value both live in the history, and history you can query beats history you page through as scans.
The subscription delivers the files themselves — typed Parquet you query in Python, R, or DuckDB — alongside the live application. Your models, your tools, your drive. No per-seat meter running, nothing that vanishes when a session ends — an asset your team builds on.
No more days searching dated government sources. No more spreadsheets stitching together disparate records. NWIP is the data foundation your team has been building toward. The scale figures above are curated: NWIP centralizes public records from more than a dozen federal and state agencies and normalizes them into query-ready Parquet tables — 613,339,172 rows across 534 files — so the work of finding, decoding, and joining the source data is already done before you download. Those same records are also live in the NWIP web application your subscription includes — a browser tool you log into, evolving alongside the data.
Production history, formation breakdown, and operator activity for every well within your area of interest — in a single query.
Read the analysis →Build technical reports, regulatory filings, and client deliverables on cited primary-source data without per-seat platform fees. Production decline curves, completion benchmarks, and formation-level analysis pull directly from the same Parquet files cited in your methodology section.
Track drilling permits and operator activity by section-township-range to identify acreage where capital is being deployed before lease prices move. Cross-reference operator ownership history and well registry to qualify mineral rights acquisitions or competing leasehold positions.
Quantify operator-level compliance posture across spill history, NOAVs, inspection records, environmental chemistry, and bradenhead test results. Screen plugging liability and bond coverage gaps across an inactive well inventory in hours instead of weeks of manual agency-by-agency searches.
Underwrite oil and gas exposure on per-well economics rather than operator press releases. 12-month per-foot productivity, lateral length distributions, and decline curve analysis across 613M+ records support investment thesis development and acquisition target screening.
Conduct longitudinal studies and investigative reporting on oil and gas operations using primary-source regulatory data with full methodology documentation and SHA-256 verified delivery — citable in peer-reviewed publication and discoverable in litigation without dependency on operator-provided datasets.
Monthly oil, gas & water production — 15,792,074 Colorado well-months and 77,915,718 Texas lease-months (different grains, reported separately)
Complete well registry with spatial and formation data (1,434,425 wells across Colorado and Texas)
Colorado facility and infrastructure data (4,440 facilities, 13 facility types)
Colorado environmental chemistry records (4.9M rows, 4-table star schema)
Plugging & reclamation documents — 175,414 Colorado Form 6 records and 479,810 Texas W-3 plugging records
Spill & release reports across Colorado and Texas (63,510 incidents)
Colorado bonds & financial assurance records (4,357 sureties, $615.9M total bond value)
Colorado field inspection records (420,257 inspections, 14.35% violation rate)
Colorado bradenhead pressure test records (357,150 tests)
Colorado Notice of Alleged Violation (NOAV) records (7,452 enforcement actions)
Colorado Mechanical Integrity Test (MIT) records (14,804 tests, 527 failures)
Colorado sidetrack well crosswalk — 5,329 sidetrack wellbores mapped to the primary registry
Drilling permits — 1,039,896 permits across Colorado and Texas, with mineral owner classification and formation data
Hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosures (4,168,374 disclosures across 135,981 wells in Colorado and Texas)
USGS subsurface formation top elevations for the Denver Basin (2.8M+ records, 2025 model) · Colorado
Basin-level rig productivity and benchmarking — 10,276 Colorado-region and 1,470 Texas-region monthly records
USGS induced seismicity catalog (78,600 events across Colorado and Texas)
County-level demographic context from 2022 American Community Survey (64 county records) · Colorado
Federal land oil & gas statistics (FY2025 aggregates) · Colorado
Greenhouse gas emissions by facility under EPA reporting program (20,375 records across Colorado and Texas)
Toxic release inventory (58,187 records across Colorado and Texas)
Compliance and enforcement history across 185,535 facilities in Colorado and Texas
Safe drinking water systems and violations (21,638 systems, 1,086,279 violations across Colorado and Texas)
Air pollutant emission notices filed with Colorado Department of Public Health (32,072 records, 2020 to present) · Colorado
Oil & gas annual emission inventories across 7 pollutants (5,068 records, 181 operators, 2021 to present) · Colorado
State-level monthly production benchmarking — 170,656 Colorado and 735 Texas records
Groundwater monitoring sites and level measurements — 61,417 sites across Colorado and Texas; 503,551 Colorado (NWIS) and 1,669,258 Texas (TWDB) level readings
State trust land mineral leases, ownership, and infrastructure (35,255 features across 4 layers) · Colorado
Create an account and the full platform is yours for 30 days — both live states, every dossier section, no credit card. When the trial ends, it ends.
Start Free 30-Day TrialNWIP is architected for multi-state coverage. Every state oil and gas commission maintains comparable public data at similar depth — production records, well registries, environmental filings, and regulatory documents. The platform serving Texas and Colorado today is the same platform that will serve every producing state in the portfolio.
States on the roadmap: North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, and Pennsylvania. Each state release multiplies the analytical surface area available for cross-state comparison, acquisition analysis, and regional research.