Search Wellcards, locations and record availability
Search more than 28,000 Ontario petroleum well records. Start with a licence, a place or the map, then save useful wells to a member project.
New to the records?
If you do not yet have a well licence, begin with a county, township, lot and concession, a street address, or a point on the map.
Useful starting points
These links run live Advanced Search queries. Result counts will change as the Library database is updated.
Active oil wells
Combine the well type Oil Well with the mode Active Well.
Active natural gas wells
Use the exact type phrase Natural Gas Well and the active mode.
A land description
Start broad, then layer fields: Lambton County, Enniskillen Township, Lot 17, Concession II.
Near a known well
Find wells within 10 km of licence T010000. You can substitute any known licence.
Recently drilled records
Search by total-depth date. This example uses a populated five-year period; change the dates for your research year.
Recently plugged records
Search by plugging-end date. Enter the same year twice when you need a single year.
The same well can be found more than one way
Known identifier or name
Use Simple Search for a licence, well name, operator, county, or familiar phrases such as active oil well.
Location first
Use structured land-description fields, a nearby place, a street address, the interactive Well Map, or the PxTools KMZ.
Records first
Filter for reported logs, core analyses, core photos or chip photos, then check the Wellcard to see exactly what is available.
Build a member project
Pin wells, collect them in PxTools Workbench projects, tag a small transect, and send the selected wells to a 2D stratigraphic diagram or 3D fence.
Make the search reusable
Visitors can search, map wells, inspect public record availability, and view public core and chip photos. Members can work with deeper Wellcard content, projects, tags, photo overlays, scanned-log access and PxTools Workbench visualizations.