Drilling Permit Master
Original only Fixed-width
The monthly master file of drilling permit applications, without coordinates.
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
The original OGA049 permit master: one fixed-width record per permit application, carrying the operator, the lease, the field, the well number, the permit and status numbers and the filing dates.
It is the oldest of the four permit products and the only one with no latitude or longitude. RRC keeps publishing it because decades of downstream systems read exactly these byte offsets.
What you can do with it
Read the permit record exactly as RRC's mainframe writes it, byte for byte, when you need to reproduce a historical extract or validate a reader against the published layout.
Gotchas
No coordinates. If you want to map permits, use the daily or end-of-month file instead — they are the same records with the '14' and '15' GPS trailer records attached.
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 once a month (Monthly. Available by the 7th working day.)
- 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.