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Virginia gas/oil history baseline (first well, plateau, well count)

Record

p09-VA-rec-06

State

VA

Category

historical_context · resource_baseline

Status

collected

Period

current

Quality

Unreviewed

Review state

Pending review

Native ID

VA-GAS-HISTORY

Fields

drilled

More than 10,000 wells have been drilled in the Commonwealth of Virginia

field

the coalfields in Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Wise Counties in southwestern Virginia

first

Virginia's first commercial natural gas well was drilled near Bristol in 1931, in what would become known as the Early Grove Gas Field.

Evidence

1. first: Virginia's first commercial natural gas well was drilled near Bristol in 1931, in what would become known as the Early Grove Gas Field.
   https://www.energy.virginia.gov/gas-oil/History.shtml · first paragraph, first sentence · source p09-VA-src-06 · visit p09-VA-visit-06
2. field: the coalfields in Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Wise Counties in southwestern Virginia
   https://www.energy.virginia.gov/gas-oil/History.shtml · first paragraph, region clause trimmed · source p09-VA-src-06 · visit p09-VA-visit-06
3. drilled: More than 10,000 wells have been drilled in the Commonwealth of Virginia
   https://www.energy.virginia.gov/gas-oil/History.shtml · second paragraph, wells sentence trimmed · source p09-VA-src-06 · visit p09-VA-visit-06

Provenance

Collected 2026-10-05 by agent p09-VA.