Historical Ledger — Statewide Oil
Statewide monthly oil production from 1993 to the present.
What this is
LAD001 again, for oil: monthly statewide production from 1993 to now.
How it is laid out
The Railroad Commission publishes this as EBCDIC (IBM cp037). IBM mainframe encoding (cp037). Opening it as text gives you nonsense; it has to be transcoded first. 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
Build a thirty-year oil production history from the Commission's own ledger.
- 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
EBCDIC, packed decimals, implied decimal places.
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 own copy rather than pretending to serve rows it does not have.
The full page lists every trap in this dataset.