Wellbore Remarks
Queryable Fixed-width
Free-text remarks the Commission recorded against a wellbore.
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What this is
Record type 08. Continuation lines of free text, each tagged with a remark type code and a line counter.
2.3 million lines of what the district office actually wrote down.
What you can do with it
Search the Commission's own notes on a well — the reason a permit was conditioned, what was found during an inspection, why a status changed.
Gotchas
Remarks are line-wrapped continuations, not sentences. To read one you have to order by the line counter and concatenate; a single line in isolation is usually a fragment.
Record layout
6 columns. Byte positions are 1-based and come from the RRC record layout, so you can check our decoding against the original file yourself.
wb_remarks
6 columns
| # | Column | Type | Bytes | RRC name | Meaning | Lookup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
api_county
key
join
|
text | — | — | The three-digit county component of the API number. For offshore wells this is the nearest onshore county, not the well's actual location. | — |
| 2 |
api_unique
key
join
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text | — | — | The five-digit well component of the API number. Unique only in combination with the county code. | — |
| 3 |
rmk_lne_cnt
key
|
smallint | 3-5 | WB-RMK-LNE-CNT |
Line number of this remark. Remarks are 70 characters per line and wrap. | — |
| 4 |
rmk_type_code
|
text | 6 | WB-RMK-TYPE-CODE |
Remark type code. | — |
| 5 |
remarks
|
text | 7-76 | WB-REMARKS |
One 70-character line of free text. Order by line number to rebuild the paragraph. | — |
| 6 |
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.
Wellbore Remarks joins to Full Wellbore Database (ASCII) on API county and API unique — many rows here share a single row there.
the remarks recorded against it
Line-wrapped free text from the district office. Order by the line counter to read a remark whole. Keyed on the API county and unique number, which is how every record type in WBA091 hangs off its root record.
full-wellbore-ascii.api_county = wellbore-remarks.api_county AND full-wellbore-ascii.api_unique = wellbore-remarks.api_unique
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 week (Weekly, with the wellbore database.)
- RRC download link
- GoAnywhere MFT
- Record layout manual
- Our table
texas.wb_remarks
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