Drilling Permit Master
The monthly master file of drilling permit applications, without coordinates.
What this is
The original OGA049 permit master: one fixed-width record per permit application, carrying the operator, the lease, the field, the well number, the permit and status numbers and the filing dates.
It is the oldest of the four permit products and the only one with no latitude or longitude. RRC keeps publishing it because decades of downstream systems read exactly these byte offsets.
How it is laid out
The Railroad Commission publishes this as Fixed-width ASCII. Columns are byte ranges with no separators, described only in a scanned record layout. We mirror the Commission's file exactly as they published it, byte for byte. We have not decoded this one into a table yet, so reading it needs the right tooling.
What we add
Read the permit record exactly as RRC's mainframe writes it, byte for byte, when you need to reproduce a historical extract or validate a reader against the published layout.
- Mirrored so the file is here when the Commission's own link is not.
- Documented — what it is, where it came from, and when we last fetched it.
Worth knowing before you use it
No coordinates. If you want to map permits, use the daily or end-of-month file instead — they are the same records with the '14' and '15' GPS trailer records attached.
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 …
The full page lists every trap in this dataset.