AR Oil & Gas Commission

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Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission well inventory, Smackover-Norphlet lithium-brine lease polygons (Standard Lithium / ExxonMobil), and historical pipelines via the AR State GIS Office. ~38K wells covering Fayetteville Shale + Smackover. No credentials required.

What is AR Oil & Gas Commission?

Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission well registry mirrored by the Arkansas State GIS Office at agency data services. Three curated layers: layer 5 OIL_AND_GAS_WELLS_AOGC (~38,245 wells with rich AOGC schema — permitnumberstring, wellid, operatorname, wellname, welltype, welltypedescription, wellstatus, wellstatusdescription, countyname, poolnamestring, fieldname, section/township/range, depthbottom); /8 PIPELINES_USGS_1986 (~719 historical polylines — USGS 1986 snapshot, NOT live AOGC data); /20 LITHIUM_LEASED_AREAS_AOGC (~7 Smackover-Norphlet brine polygons — Standard Lithium + ExxonMobil commercial-scale acreage). Top counties: UNION 7,112 (19% — South AR Smackover oil); FRANKLIN 3,116 / SEBASTIAN 2,469 / LOGAN 2,095 (Arkoma); OUACHITA 2,855 / COLUMBIA 2,839 / LAFAYETTE 2,371 (Smackover); VAN BUREN 1,846 / CONWAY 1,480 (Fayetteville Shale). Top welltype: GAS 19,082 (50%), OIL 16,793 (44%), SWD 1,282, EOR 328, EXP 283, CBM 71, GS 33. Top wellstatus: PR 16,570, PA 16,061, A 3,385, EX 1,232, TA 304, AOW 267, IN 255. §0 spec drift caught: build-plan said Location/data services for wells — that has only GNIS-style geographic names, NO O&G; Utilities/data services doesn't exist (only PrintingTools/RasterUtilities/Symbols sub-services). Canonical wells live at layer 5. Field names lowercase upstream (operatorname, wellstatus); CountyName stored UPPERCASE. wellstatus has lowercase 'ex' typo alongside canonical 'EX'. ; Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Available Tools

searchWells
AR oil and gas wells (~38.2K). Filter county UPPERCASE (UNION, FRANKLIN, OUACHITA), operator, status (PR/PA/A/EX/TA), wellType (GAS/OIL/SWD/EOR/CBM), field.
searchLithiumLeasedAreas
Smackover-Norphlet lithium-brine lease polygons (~7). Standard Lithium + ExxonMobil commercial-scale acreage. Filter leaseName + bbox/near.
searchPipelines
USGS-1986 historical pipeline polylines (~719). Filter bestClass + quadName + bbox. Historical snapshot, not live AOGC data.
getWellByPermit
Single well lookup by permit number (e.g. '1022') or wellid (e.g. '313981092').
getServiceInfo
Schema, record counts, and enum values for any of the 3 services.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable AR Oil & Gas Commission with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchWells with county: 'VAN BUREN' and wellType: 'GAS' for Fayetteville Shale, or searchLithiumLeasedAreas to see commercial-scale Smackover brine acreage.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect AR Oil & Gas Commission to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect AR Oil & Gas Commission to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting AR Oil & Gas Commission to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"AR Oil & Gas Commission-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}