ST-1 Application Report — what it is, in short

What this is

The ST-1 is the application for a severance tax exemption or reduction. This file carries 12,716 online applications since April 2019: the district, lease, operator and address, the classification and filing type, the current filing status, and the whole procedural trail — received, issued, spud, completion, and up to three submit/reject cycles plus any hearing request.

It is the clearest view there is of how the incentive process actually runs.

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 26 columns and about 14.1K rows.

The columns you will most likely want:

st1_docket_id The ST-1 docket identifier. Primary key.
district_nbr RRC district.
lease_nbr Lease number the application concerns.
lease_name Lease name as filed.
operator_p5 Applicant's six-digit P-5 operator number.
operator_name Operator name as carried in this file. Names drift between filings — join on the operator number, never …

…and 20 more, all documented on the full page.

What we add

See which applications were approved, which were rejected and how many times, and how long the Commission takes to act.

Find an operator's incentive applications, and join to the regulatory lease directory on district plus lease number for the field and well count.

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

The district here is the printed designation (7C, 8A), unlike the high-cost gas file which uses the internal number.

filing_status is a bare number with no published code table; status 4 dominates the file. Read the ST-1 user guide before interpreting it.

Online filings only. Applications made on paper before April 2019 are not here.

The full page lists every trap in this dataset.

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People who want this usually want

P-5 Organization (ASCII) Every organization with an RRC operator number: name, status, type and address.
High Cost Gas Every lease certified as high-cost gas for severance tax relief.
High Cost Gas (Tight Sands Only) RRC's tight-sands file — which is the whole high-cost gas record, not a subset.
Natural Gas Policy Act NGPA Section 107 determinations.