Oil and Gas Docket Subjects

What this is

The subject records of the docket file: 1.1 million lines of subject text, with the flags the Commission tags them with.

The docket master says when things happened. This says what happened.

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 5 columns and about 1.2M rows.

The columns you will most likely want:

• docket_number The docket this subject text belongs to. Join to the docket master on it.
• line_no Line number within the docket's subject text. Order by it to rebuild the paragraph.
• subject_text One 50-character line of the docket's subject description.
• subject_flags Two bytes of subject flags.
• ingested_at When the upstream pipeline last wrote this row. Not an RRC field — it is EZRRC's provenance stamp, …

What we add

Search the docket by subject matter — Rule 37 exceptions, allowable changes, enforcement, field rule amendments.

• 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.

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) Which purchaser or transporter is authorised to move product off which lease.
• Oil and Gas Docket Parties The organizations and people named in each docket.
• P-5 Organization (EBCDIC) The operator directory in the Commission's original mainframe encoding.
• R-3 Gas Processing Plants (EBCDIC, retired) Retired on 2025-08-25 and replaced by the JSON dataload.