Drilling Permit Master and Trailer — Daily File (with latitudes and longitudes)
Every drilling permit application, refreshed nightly, with surface and bottomhole coordinates.
- Rows
- 114.7K
- Size
- 81.6 MB
- Updates
- Nightly
- Last seen
- 31 Jul 2026
The Railroad Commission publishes these as EBCDIC, fixed-width ASCII, dBase and shapefiles, described only in scanned COBOL manuals. Here they are with the record layouts, code lookups and join keys spelled out — and exports in formats a spreadsheet can open.
Every drilling permit application, refreshed nightly, with surface and bottomhole coordinates.
The same permits as the nightly file, cut once a month as a stable snapshot.
Every well ever assigned an API number in Texas, with casing, tubing, perforations, formations, plugging and inactive-well tests.
Forms G-1 and W-2: the filings that turn a drilled hole into a producing well.
Surface and bottomhole well locations as shapefiles, county by county.
Patent survey lines and tracts as shapefiles.
Abandoned, liquid and gas pipeline routes as shapefiles.
Roads, water features, cities and political boundaries as shapefiles.
Every map layer for a county in one package.