Oil and Gas Reports and References

The following hyperlinks will take you to various information and reports available through the Pennsylvania Geological Survey.

General Information

• Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania – Education Series 8 (1.87 MB)
• Pennsylvania Geology, vol. 29, no. 1 (931 KB)
• Map 10 – Oil and gas fields of Pennsylvania (614 KB)
   

Databases and information systems

• Wells Information System
• PA*IRIS Document Imaging Service
   

Maps

• Oil and Gas Base Maps
• Historical Farmline Maps
   

Reports

• Subsurface Rock Correlation Diagram: Open-File Report OFOG 07–01.0: Subsurface Rock Correlation Diagram, Oil and Gas Producing Regions of Pennsylvania
• PaGS Reports (shows areal coverage of reports)
• PaGS Special Bulletins (shows areal coverage of reports)
• United States Geological Survey Publications (shows areal coverage of reports)
   

Guidebooks and Papers

• Information on the thermal history and Alleghanian unloading (1.61 MB) of central Pennsylvania from the 2003 Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists guidebook. See page 66 of the article (PDF document page 4)
• Field Trip Guidebook for the Eastern Section AAPG Annual Meeting, September 10, 2003 and the PAPG Spring Field Trip, May 26, 2004
• Staff geologist Christopher D. Laughrey and others provide information on the Council Run gas field in Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania in a paper entitled "Petroleum geology and geochemistry of the Council Run gas field, north central Pennsylvania (2.61 MB). This paper is made available from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) journal AAPG Bulletin, v. 88, no. 2 (February 2004) with their permission
• Abstracts from the 2006 Eastern Section meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (see listing under “Statewide” heading)