NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines

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New York DEC Division of Mineral Resources oil and gas wells plus surface mining permits — Allegany / Cattaraugus / Chautauqua dominant for wells; sand and gravel for mines. No credentials required.

What is NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines?

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Division of Mineral Resources — oil and gas wells plus surface mining permits, both exposed via agency host data. Two layers: layer 1 with ~47,390 wells (oil/gas/storage/brine/CBM/geothermal/stratigraphic); layer 0 with ~6,145 surface mining permits. NY environmental data folded into this connector per the Batch L plan — DEC handles both well regulation and mineral mining permits. WELL_TYPE / WELL_STATUS are 2-letter codes (OD oil-development 17,865; GD gas-development 10,056; IW injection 4,502; DW disposal 1,695; PA plugged-abandoned 20,543; AC active 11,782); GENERALWELLTYPE / GENERALWELLSTATUS provide human-readable rollups (Oil Well 18,003; Gas Well 10,896; Storage Well 1,132; Brine Well 766; Geothermal Well 128). Top wells counties: Allegany 16,397 (35%); Cattaraugus 11,934; Chautauqua 6,367; Erie 3,504. Mines COMMODITY values stored space-padded fixed-width — handler trims (Sand and Gravel 4,919 = 80% of permits; Bluestone 243; Clay 238; Topsoil 168; Limestone 129; Salt 4; Zinc 4; Wollastonite 4; Talc 3). Mines INITDATE/ISSUEDATE/ENDDATE are stored as MM/DD/YYYY strings (NOT epoch ms like wells) — handler converts to ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Every well record includes a LINK to the canonical agency host GasOil portal. ; on both layers. Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Available Tools

searchWells
NY oil/gas/storage/brine/CBM/geothermal wells (~47.4K). Filter county, operator (COMPANY_NAME), generalWellType (Oil Well/Gas Well/Storage Well/Brine Well/Geothermal Well), wellTypeCode (OD/GD/IW/DW/etc.), generalWellStatus (Unplugged/Plugged), slant, formation, town, bbox/near.
searchMines
NY surface mining permits (~6.1K). Filter county, commodity (Sand and Gravel/Bluestone/Clay/Limestone/Salt/Zinc), status code (A/R/N/T/P), permittee, town, bbox/near.
getWellByApi
Single well lookup by API_WELLNO (14-digit, NY uses 31-prefix per AAPG convention). Returns LINK to public DEC portal.
getMineById
Single mine lookup by MINEID (DEC permit identifier).
getServiceInfo
Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, enum values for every filter, and §0 probe notes for both layers.

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 NY DEC Oil & Gas + Mines with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchWells with county: 'Allegany' and generalWellType: 'Oil Well' for the heart of NY's Allegheny Plateau O&G, or searchMines for surface mining permits.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines 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 NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines 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 NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines to GitHub Copilot:

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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:

"NY Department of Environmental Conservation — Oil & Gas + Mines-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"
}