Pipeline Layers by County
Original only Shapefile Has coordinates
Pipeline routes as shapefiles, one layer per county.
Get the data
Free. You will be asked to confirm an email address before the files are built — that is the only gate, and it is there so we can tell you when a large export is ready.
What this is
Pipeline centrelines the Commission maps, one shapefile layer per county — pipe001l for Anderson, and so on.
Liquid, gas and abandoned lines are not separate layers: they are all in the one layer, told apart by attributes. COMMODITY1 to COMMODITY3 and CMDTY_DESC carry what the line moves, STATUS_CD its status and SYSTYPE the system type, alongside the operator name and P-5 number, diameter and T-4 permit.
What you can do with it
Map gathering and transmission infrastructure against production and processing.
Gotchas
These are the Commission's mapped routes, not an as-built survey, and abandoned lines are included — filter on STATUS_CD if you do not want them.
Every RRC map layer is published in the Geographic coordinate system in decimal degrees on the NAD27 datum — EPSG:4267. That is not what web mapping expects. Overlaying it on anything modern without reprojecting to WGS 84 puts Texas wells roughly 100 metres from where they belong.
Files are packaged county by county under RRC's 8.3 naming convention, so a statewide layer means merging 255 files: one per county on the odd codes 001 to 507, plus a FED bundle covering federal offshore waters. Merging the 254 county files alone silently drops everything offshore.
This is mirrored whole rather than decoded, and that is the right shape for it: a shapefile is a working format, not an encoding to be undone, and every GIS tool opens one. Read the datum note above before you overlay it on anything -- that is the part that goes wrong quietly.
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
- Shapefile ArcView shapefile — several files that must be kept together.
- RRC publishes
- Updated twice a week (Twice a week.)
- 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.