Drilling Permits Pending Approval (with latitudes and longitudes)
Original only Fixed-width
Applications the Commission has received but not yet approved, twice a day.
Get the data
No download is available for this dataset yet. It is catalogued here so the record layout and code lookups are at least written down.
What this is
Permit applications in flight. Same fixed-width shape as the approved permit file, including coordinates, but every record is an application the Commission has not acted on yet.
Published twice a day, at 11:30 and 17:30, which makes it the earliest public signal there is that an operator intends to drill somewhere.
What you can do with it
See intent before approval — who is filing where, days or weeks before the permit shows up in the approved file.
Diff two consecutive pulls to watch applications move from pending to issued, and measure how long the Commission is taking to act.
Gotchas
A pending application is not a permit. Some are withdrawn, some are denied, and the same well can appear here more than once as an operator amends its filing.
Records vanish from this file the moment they are approved — nothing marks them as approved, they simply stop appearing. If you want the history you have to keep your own snapshots.
EZRRC does not parse this file. Upstream has not built a reader for it yet, so the catalog documents it and links to the Commission's own copy rather than pretending to serve rows it does not have.
Record layout
0 columns.
We have not transcribed the record layout for this dataset yet. The RRC manual linked under “Where this comes from” is the authoritative description in the meantime.
Where this comes from
- Published by
- Texas Railroad Commission — the original page
- Original format
- Fixed-width Columns are byte ranges with no separators, described only in a scanned record layout.
- Update cadence
- Updated twice a day (Twice daily, 11:30 am and 5:30 pm.)
- RRC download link
- GoAnywhere MFT
- Record layout manual
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