What this is

One of the sixteen delimited tables inside the monthly Production Data Query dump. RRC publishes the dump as a single archive; EZRRC publishes each table inside it separately so you can take the one you need instead of a 3.6 GB zip.

Production summed to the field and month. The field number is the join to the field directory, which is the only place the field's name, class and discovery …

How it is laid out

The Railroad Commission publishes this as CSV. Comma-separated text. We decode it into a table you can open anywhere. It has 12 columns and about 10.2M rows.

The columns you will most likely want:

  • district_no RRC's INTERNAL district number, 01 to 14 plus 20 for statewide. This is not the district name the …
  • field_no The eight-digit RRC field number. The field's name is not in most files; join to the field directory …
  • cycle_year Production cycle year, four digits.
  • cycle_month Production cycle month, two digits.
  • cycle_year_month Production cycle as YYYYMM. This is the column to filter a date range on.
  • district_name RRC district as the industry writes it, e.g. 7B, 8A, 6E.

…and 6 more, all documented on the full page.

What we add

Rank fields by production, track a play's output month by month, and find when a field peaked.

  • 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.
  • The Commission's single-letter codes translated into words.

Worth knowing before you use it

A field number appears under more than one district when the field crosses a district boundary — sum across districts for a field total.

A lease number is only unique with the oil/gas code and the district in it. Oil lease 027587 in District 08 and gas lease 027587 in District 08 are different leases; …

The full page lists every trap in this dataset.

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