Statewide Oil Well Database
Original only EBCDIC
Testing and technical data for every oil well on the statewide schedule.
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
WLA001K. The oil-schedule well file: technical and test data carried against each well on the statewide proration schedule, including the W-10 potential test information the allowable is calculated from.
What you can do with it
Read the test data that sets an oil well's allowable, and reconstruct how a lease's allowable was derived.
Gotchas
EBCDIC, with packed-decimal numeric fields — a plain transcode is not enough, the numbers have to be unpacked.
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
- EBCDIC IBM mainframe encoding (cp037). Opening it as text gives you nonsense; it has to be transcoded first.
- Update cadence
- Updated once a month (Monthly. Available by the 27th.)
- RRC download link
- GoAnywhere MFT
- Record layout manual
EZRRC is an independent mirror of public-domain data published by the Texas Railroad Commission. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the RRC. For any legal or regulatory purpose, verify against the official RRC release.