Oil and Gas Docket Parties — what it is, in short

What this is:

The name records of the docket file: 223,000 rows tying a docket number to the parties involved. It is the fastest route from a company to its regulatory history.

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 decode it into a table you can open anywhere. It has 4 columns and about 223.4K rows.

The columns you will most likely want:

docket_number The docket these parties belong to. Join to the docket master on it.
name A party to the docket — applicant, operator, protestant or representative. One docket has several.
row_no Sequence number of this row within its parent record. Part of the key.
ingested_at When the upstream pipeline last wrote this row.

What we add:

Find every docket a named operator appears in, and identify the protestants in a contested case.

Decoded out of the Commission's original format into something Excel opens.
Filterable before you download, so you can take one county instead of the whole state.

Worth knowing before use:

Party names are free text as filed and do not carry the operator number. Matching them to the P-5 directory is a name match, and about one in five will not match exactly — punctuation, suffixes and abbreviations all vary.

The full page lists every trap in this dataset.

Get it:

People who want this usually want:

Oil and Gas Docket Contested cases, rulemakings and hearings before the Commission.
P-5 Organization (ASCII) Every organization with an RRC operator number: name, status, type and address.
Certificate of Authorization P-4 (Oil and Gas) Who gathers, buys and nominates each Texas lease's oil and gas, and every P-4 behind it.
Oil and Gas Docket Subjects What each docket was actually about, in the Commission's own words.
P-5 Organization (EBCDIC) The operator directory in the Commission's original mainframe encoding.
R-3 Gas Processing Plants (EBCDIC, retired) Every gas plant Texas has known since 1912, and the last two years of R-3 forms. Frozen 2025-08-25.