Photo credits
Every photograph on this site, with its source, licence and credit line. No images are AI-generated.
| Image | Shows | Credit | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hero | A drilling rig and well pad lit up at night, seen from a distance, with the surrounding landscape in darkness. | Kelly O. Maloney, USGS | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |
| op | A pumpjack on a flat prairie well site under a dark, stormy sky. | Tara Chesley-Preston, USGS | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |
| surety | An open, unplugged orphan well with a rusted valve and a bare casing stub in sagebrush prairie in Toole County, Montana. | Nick Gianoutsos, USGS | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |
| reg | A rusted, corroded wellhead and cut-off casing with a wooden surround, overgrown by green plants on a forest floor. | Victor Elam, USFWS | Media Usage Rights/License: Public Domain Image (USFWS media page) | Source |
| contractor | Aerial view of a drilling rig on a small well pad among farm fields and badlands in North Dakota. | Seth Haines, USGS | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |
| g oil | A distant pumpjack on a prairie skyline beyond a pothole pond. | Tara Chesley-Preston, USGS | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |
| g gas | A rusted wellhead assembly of valves and flanges standing alone on bare ground in south Texas scrubland. | Steve Hillebrand, USFWS | Media Usage Rights/License: Public Domain Image (USFWS media page); cropped to remove an operator sign at the edge of the original | Source |
| g head | A rusted, abandoned pumpjack standing in brush above a lake shoreline in Texas. | Steve Hillebrand, USFWS (hosted by USGS) | Sources/Usage: Public Domain (USGS media page) | Source |