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 use:
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. There will be no decoded version of this.
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