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What this is

One of the sixteen delimited tables inside the monthly Production Data Query dump. RRC publishes the dump as a single archive; EZRRC publishes each table inside it separately so you can take the one you need instead of a 3.6 GB zip.

Seventeen million rows breaking each lease-month's volume out by disposition code: sold to a purchaser, run to a pipeline, used as lease fuel, vented or flared, injected, put into storage, lost in processing.

Production tells you how much came out of the ground. Disposition tells you what happened to it.

What you can do with it

Measure flaring and venting by lease, operator, field or district — the disposition codes are the only public source for that.

Reconcile produced volume against disposed volume, and see how much gas is used as lease fuel rather than sold.

Gotchas

Each disposition code is its own column, not a row — the table is very wide rather than long. Oil, gas, condensate and casinghead gas each have their own set.

Disposition should sum to production plus opening balance minus closing balance, and does not always. Discrepancies are real filings, not parsing errors.

A lease number is only unique with the oil/gas code and the district in it. Oil lease 027587 in District 08 and gas lease 027587 in District 08 are different leases; so is oil lease 027587 in District 09.

district_no here is RRC's INTERNAL district numbering (01-14, 20), not the designation the industry prints. Internal 07 is District 6E, 08 is 7B, 09 is 7C, 10 is District 08, 11 is 8A, 13 is 09 and 14 is District 10. The district directory is the lookup; reading the number as a label is wrong.

Volumes are whole numbers in the reporting unit — barrels for liquids, MCF for gas. There are no implied decimals here, unlike the EBCDIC ledgers.

Cycle year and cycle month are separate columns; cycle_year_month is the two of them concatenated as YYYYMM and is the cheapest thing to range on.

Production is reported by lease, not by well. A lease can be one well or two hundred.

Record layout

53 columns.

pdq_og_lease_disp_cycle 53 columns

Record layout for pdq_og_lease_disp_cycle — 53 columns
# Column Type RRC name Meaning Lookup
1 oil_gas_code key join text Whether the lease is carried on the oil schedule or the gas schedule. Oil or gas schedule
2 district_no key join text RRC's INTERNAL district number, 01 to 14 plus 20 for statewide. This is not the district name the industry uses: internal 07 is District 6E, 08 is 7B, 09 is 7C, 10 is District 08, 11 is 8A, 13 is 09 and 14 is District 10. Join to the district directory rather than reading it as a label. RRC district (internal number)
3 lease_no key join text RRC lease number. Unique only within a district and a schedule, so a lease key is district + oil/gas code + lease number.
4 cycle_year text Production cycle year, four digits.
5 cycle_month text Production cycle month, two digits.
6 operator_no join text The operator's six-digit RRC P-5 organization number. Join to the P-5 Organization dataset for the company's name, address and P-5 status.
7 field_no join text The eight-digit RRC field number. The field's name is not in most files; join to the field directory to get it.
8 cycle_year_month key text Production cycle as YYYYMM. This is the column to filter a date range on.
9 lease_oil_dispcd00_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd00 vol
10 lease_oil_dispcd01_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd01 vol
11 lease_oil_dispcd02_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd02 vol
12 lease_oil_dispcd03_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd03 vol
13 lease_oil_dispcd04_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd04 vol
14 lease_oil_dispcd05_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd05 vol
15 lease_oil_dispcd06_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd06 vol
16 lease_oil_dispcd07_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd07 vol
17 lease_oil_dispcd08_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd08 vol
18 lease_oil_dispcd09_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd09 vol
19 lease_oil_dispcd99_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease oil dispcd99 vol
20 lease_gas_dispcd01_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd01 vol
21 lease_gas_dispcd02_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd02 vol
22 lease_gas_dispcd03_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd03 vol
23 lease_gas_dispcd04_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd04 vol
24 lease_gas_dispcd05_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd05 vol
25 lease_gas_dispcd06_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd06 vol
26 lease_gas_dispcd07_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd07 vol
27 lease_gas_dispcd08_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd08 vol
28 lease_gas_dispcd09_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd09 vol
29 lease_gas_dispcd99_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease gas dispcd99 vol
30 lease_cond_dispcd00_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd00 vol
31 lease_cond_dispcd01_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd01 vol
32 lease_cond_dispcd02_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd02 vol
33 lease_cond_dispcd03_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd03 vol
34 lease_cond_dispcd04_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd04 vol
35 lease_cond_dispcd05_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd05 vol
36 lease_cond_dispcd06_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd06 vol
37 lease_cond_dispcd07_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd07 vol
38 lease_cond_dispcd08_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd08 vol
39 lease_cond_dispcd99_vol bigint measured in bbl Lease cond dispcd99 vol
40 lease_csgd_dispcde01_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde01 vol
41 lease_csgd_dispcde02_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde02 vol
42 lease_csgd_dispcde03_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde03 vol
43 lease_csgd_dispcde04_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde04 vol
44 lease_csgd_dispcde05_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde05 vol
45 lease_csgd_dispcde06_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde06 vol
46 lease_csgd_dispcde07_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde07 vol
47 lease_csgd_dispcde08_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde08 vol
48 lease_csgd_dispcde99_vol bigint measured in MCF Lease csgd dispcde99 vol
49 district_name text RRC district as the industry writes it, e.g. 7B, 8A, 6E.
50 lease_name text Lease name as filed.
51 operator_name text Operator name as carried in this file. Names drift between filings — join on the operator number, never on the name.
52 field_name text Field name.
53 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.

Code lookups used here

Every coded column in this dataset resolves to a real lookup table, so a well code of G can be read as what it actually means.

RRC district (internal number) 14 values

Read by district_no

RRC's internal sequential district numbering, 01 to 14 plus 20 for statewide. The production data, the UIC database and the high-cost gas certifications all use this. Internal 07 is District 6E, 08 is 7B, 09 is 7C, 10 is District 08, 11 is 8A, 13 is 09 and 14 is District 10. There is no internal 12.

RRC district (internal number) — 14 codes and their meanings
CodeMeans
01 District 01 — San Antonio (internal 01) Internal district number 01, which RRC prints as District 01 and administers from San Antonio.
02 District 02 — San Antonio (internal 02) Internal district number 02, which RRC prints as District 02 and administers from San Antonio.
03 District 03 — Houston (internal 03) Internal district number 03, which RRC prints as District 03 and administers from Houston.
04 District 04 — Corpus Christi (internal 04) Internal district number 04, which RRC prints as District 04 and administers from Corpus Christi.
05 District 05 — Kilgore (internal 05) Internal district number 05, which RRC prints as District 05 and administers from Kilgore.
06 District 06 — Kilgore (internal 06) Internal district number 06, which RRC prints as District 06 and administers from Kilgore.
07 District 6E — Kilgore (internal 07) Internal district number 07, which RRC prints as District 6E and administers from Kilgore.
08 District 7B — Abilene (internal 08) Internal district number 08, which RRC prints as District 7B and administers from Abilene.
09 District 7C — San Angelo (internal 09) Internal district number 09, which RRC prints as District 7C and administers from San Angelo.
10 District 08 — Midland (internal 10) Internal district number 10, which RRC prints as District 08 and administers from Midland.
11 District 8A — Midland (internal 11) Internal district number 11, which RRC prints as District 8A and administers from Midland.
13 District 09 — Wichita Falls (internal 13) Internal district number 13, which RRC prints as District 09 and administers from Wichita Falls.
14 District 10 — Pampa (internal 14) Internal district number 14, which RRC prints as District 10 and administers from Pampa.
20 District 20 — State Wide (internal 20) Internal district number 20, which RRC prints as District 20 and administers from State Wide.

Source: Generated from texas.pdq_gp_district.district_no

Oil or gas schedule 2 values

Read by oil_gas_code

Which schedule a lease is carried on. This is not decoration: an oil lease number and a gas lease number can be the same digits and mean different leases, so a lease key is only unique with this code and the district in it.

Oil or gas schedule — 2 codes and their meanings
CodeMeans
O Oil Carried on the oil proration schedule; lease numbers are oil lease numbers.
G Gas Carried on the gas proration schedule; lease numbers are gas well IDs.

Source: PDQ Dump user manual; values confirmed as the complete distinct set in texas.pdq_og_lease_cycle.oil_gas_code

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.

PDQ Lease Disposition by Cycle joins to PDQ Regulatory Lease Directory on Oil gas code and District number and Lease number — many rows here share a single row there.

disposed of production from the lease

The lease key resolved to a name, operator and field.

pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.oil_gas_code = pdq-regulatory-lease-directory.oil_gas_code AND pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.district_no = pdq-regulatory-lease-directory.district_no AND pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.lease_no = pdq-regulatory-lease-directory.lease_no

PDQ Lease Disposition by Cycle joins to PDQ Lease Production by Cycle on Oil gas code and District number and Lease number and Cycle year month — one row here matches one row there.

was disposed of as

Production says how much came out of the ground; disposition says where it went — sold, flared, injected, used as lease fuel. Same lease and same cycle, one row each.

pdq-lease-cycle.oil_gas_code = pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.oil_gas_code AND pdq-lease-cycle.district_no = pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.district_no AND pdq-lease-cycle.lease_no = pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.lease_no AND pdq-lease-cycle.cycle_year_month = pdq-lease-disposition-cycle.cycle_year_month

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