Oil & Gas Field Rules
Original only Delimited
The spacing, density and allocation rules the Commission adopted for each field.
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
An Oracle export describing what the Commission has decided about each field: well spacing, density, the allocation formula that divides a field's allowable among its leases, and the docket that set them.
Field rules are why two wells in the same county have different allowables.
What you can do with it
Find the spacing and density rules governing a field before evaluating a drilling location, and see which docket adopted them.
Gotchas
The file is an Oracle export layout rather than a fixed-width RRC record, so it does not look like the rest of the catalog.
Special field rules override statewide rules, and a field can have several rule sets adopted at different times.
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
- Delimited Separated text, usually with an unusual delimiter such as a brace.
- 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.