Bailey Nelson
Founder, Epoch 11 · Geologist
I've spent twenty years as a geologist in energy basins around the world. The hardest part of the job was rarely the rocks. It was the data.
Well records sit with dozens of agencies, each with its own formats, units, codes and languages. Some are current, some are years out of date, and a few are quietly wrong. Pulling a basin together meant weeks of downloading, reformatting and checking before the real work could begin, and starting over every time the picture changed.
Epoch 11 is the tool I wish I'd had. We collect public well and mineral records straight from the agencies that hold them, clean and normalize every source into one layout, and load the lot into a database built to carry tens of millions of records without losing the detail that makes each one trustworthy.
The result is one current picture of the subsurface: where activity is happening this month, and how the geology ties together across basins, borders and geologic provinces.
How we work
Straight from the source
Every record comes from the government agency that holds it, and links back to that agency's own page.
One layout
Field names, units and codes are brought into a single e11_ layout: depths in feet, codes in plain English.
Flagged, never hidden
When a record looks wrong, we keep it as published and say why in a data quality note. We don't quietly fix or drop it.
Current
Most sources are pulled again every month, and every run is logged, so each change can be traced.
Get in touch
Working on a basin, an aquifer or a question the map could help answer? I'd like to hear about it: [email protected], or use the contact form.