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

OLA013K. The oil proration ledger: per lease, twelve months of production and fourteen months of allowable with the carried balances.

RRC splits it into ten files, one per district or district pair, listed separately on its downloads page. One layout, one MFT folder, one dataset here.

What you can do with it

Compare oil lease production against allowable month by month, and find leases running an overproduction balance.

Gotchas

EBCDIC with packed decimals and implied decimal places.

Twelve months only. The historical ledger is where the long series lives.

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 20th.)
RRC download link
GoAnywhere MFT
Record layout manual

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