Oil Well Status (26 Month W-10)
A rolling twenty-six months of W-10 oil well status test data.
What this is
OLA001K. The last twenty-six months of W-10 status reports — the periodic test filing that keeps an oil well's allowable current.
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
Track how a well's tested potential has moved over the last two years, and find wells whose W-10 is overdue.
- 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
The window rolls. A test that was in last month's file may not be in this month's, so history has to be accumulated by keeping snapshots.
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 …
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