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What this is

The name records of the docket file: 223,000 rows tying a docket number to the parties involved.

It is the fastest route from a company to its regulatory history.

What you can do with it

Find every docket a named operator appears in, and identify the protestants in a contested case.

Gotchas

Party names are free text as filed and do not carry the operator number. Matching them to the P-5 directory is a name match, and about one in five will not match exactly — punctuation, suffixes and abbreviations all vary.

Record layout

4 columns.

og_docket_name 4 columns

# Column Type RRC name Meaning Lookup
1 docket_number key join text The docket these parties belong to. Join to the docket master on it.
2 name text A party to the docket — applicant, operator, protestant or representative. One docket has several.
3 row_no key integer Sequence number of this row within its parent record. Part of the key.
4 ingested_at timestamptz When the upstream pipeline last wrote this row. Not an RRC field — it is EZRRC's provenance stamp, and it is what the freshness badge is measured against.

What this joins to

The Railroad Commission never states these keys anywhere in the files. They are the reason the data is hard to use, so here they are with the exact columns on both sides.

Oil and Gas Docket Parties joins to P-5 Organization (ASCII) on Name — rows can match many rows in both directions.

is the organization named

The docket file names parties as free text and does not carry the P-5 number, so this is a name match against the operator directory. 4,079 of 5,000 sampled party names match exactly; the remainder differ by punctuation, a suffix or an abbreviation. Treat a miss as 'not matched', never as 'not an operator'.

oil-and-gas-docket-parties.name = p5-organization-ascii.name

Oil and Gas Docket Parties joins to Oil and Gas Docket on Docket number — many rows here share a single row there.

was brought by and against

The organizations and people named in the case, one row each.

oil-and-gas-docket.docket_number = oil-and-gas-docket-parties.docket_number

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, with the docket file.)
RRC download link
GoAnywhere MFT
Record layout manual
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