Drilling Permit (W-1) Imaged Files
Scanned W-1 permit forms and the plats filed with them.
What this is
The paperwork itself: scanned images of the Form W-1 applications and the survey plats attached to them, published nightly as PDFs.
This is where the information that never made it into a structured field lives — the hand-drawn plat, the operator's remarks, the signature blocks.
How it is laid out
The Railroad Commission publishes this as PDF / TIFF images. Scanned images. There is no machine-readable data inside. 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 original filing when the structured record is ambiguous, and recover the plat geometry for a well whose coordinates look wrong.
- 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
These are images. There is no text layer to search and no record layout — everything useful in them has to be read by a person or run through OCR.
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 …
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