Buckhead Energy Operators API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Buckhead Energy Public Operators API
  version: 3.0.0
  description: 'Read-only JSON over oil & gas metrics Buckhead Energy computes: state and county drilling-activity counts, permit-to-spud and spud-to-production cycle times, DUC aging, lateral-length trends, production bands, county momentum scores, operator leaderboards by wells operated, and county / formation leaderboards. Designed for AI agents, partner integrations, and custom data consumers.


    Coverage: 24 U.S. states (TX, OK, NM, ND, CO, WY, CA, KS, MS, UT, IL, MT, AL, AR, IN, KY, LA, MI, NE, OH, PA, SD, TN, WV). Figures are Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data. The derived metrics (activity counts, cycle times, DUC aging, lateral trends, production bands, momentum) and the leaderboards are recomputed daily; the county production volumes that momentum reads are updated monthly.


    **Aggregates only.** The API never returns per-well records (no API numbers, well or lease names) and never returns commodity prices. Every list is capped at 25 rows.


    **Drilling activity by state and county only.** Permits, spuds, first production, DUCs, cycle times and lateral trends are published only as state and county counts. No drilling-activity figure is attributed to an operator, and nothing is finer than a county. Operator endpoints return wells operated and producing wells. Counts resting on fewer than 3 wells, and percentiles resting on fewer than 5, are withheld (null).


    **No authentication required.** Subject to standard rate-limiting (100 req/min per IP, 5,000 req/day per IP, 10 concurrent per IP). The daily limit is shared by REST and MCP, and both limits apply across all server instances. Responses include X-Request-ID and X-RateLimit-* headers; 429 includes Retry-After. Responses are bounded to 1 MiB and 5,000 array entries, with a 15-second execution deadline.'
  contact:
    name: Buckhead Energy
    url: https://www.buckheadenergy.com/
    email: land@buckheadenergy.com
servers:
- url: https://www.buckheadenergy.com/api/v1
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Operators
  description: Operator profiles and leaderboards by wells operated (no drilling activity is attributed to an operator)
paths:
  /:
    get:
      tags:
      - Operators
      summary: API index — lists every live REST endpoint
      description: Self-describing discovery document. The endpoints array must list every live /api/v1 route.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: API name, version, and endpoint list
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
      operationId: getApiIndex
  /operators/top:
    get:
      tags:
      - Operators
      summary: National wells-operated leaderboard
      description: Largest US oil & gas operators by total wells operated (Buckhead aggregation). Machine-readable twin of /top-operators-us. Rankings are by wells operated, never revenue or market cap. Top 25.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: National operator leaderboard
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                  meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
      operationId: getNationalTopOperators
  /operators/{slug}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Operators
      summary: 'Operator profile: wells operated by state'
      description: Operator registry identity (when in directory) and total and producing wells across states (Buckhead aggregation of wells operated). No drilling activity is attributed to an operator.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/OperatorSlug'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Operator data
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatorEnvelope'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      operationId: getOperatorProfile
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            status:
              type: integer
            message:
              type: string
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    OperatorEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: object
          properties:
            profile:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatorProfile'
            wells:
              type: object
              properties:
                totalWells:
                  type: integer
                producingWells:
                  type: integer
                statesActive:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                topFormation:
                  type:
                  - string
                  - 'null'
                topCountyByState:
                  type: array
                  maxItems: 25
                  items:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      county:
                        type: string
                      state:
                        type: string
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    Meta:
      type: object
      properties:
        apiVersion:
          type: string
          example: '1.0'
        dataAsOf:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date
          description: Date the underlying metrics were last refreshed
        source:
          type: string
          description: Attribution
          example: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data
    OperatorProfile:
      type: object
      properties:
        slug:
          type: string
        companyName:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        state:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        website:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        phone:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        address:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Invalid input
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    OperatorSlug:
      name: slug
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[a-z0-9-]{1,160}$
      description: 'Operator slug (lowercase, hyphenated). Example: pioneer-natural-resources, exxonmobil, eog.'
      example: exxonmobil
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 25
        default: 25
      description: Max rows to return (at most 25).
x-mcp:
  url: https://www.buckheadenergy.com/mcp
  transport: streamable-http
  discovery: https://www.buckheadenergy.com/.well-known/mcp.json
  note: A native Model Context Protocol server exposes the same metrics as MCP tools.