Statewide Oil Well Database
Testing and technical data for every oil well on the statewide schedule.
What this is
WLA001K. The oil-schedule well file: technical and test data carried against each well on the statewide proration schedule, including the W-10 potential test information the allowable is calculated from.
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
Read the test data that sets an oil well's allowable, and reconstruct how a lease's allowable was derived.
- 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
EBCDIC, with packed-decimal numeric fields — a plain transcode is not enough, the numbers have to be unpacked.
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 pretending to serve rows it does not have.
The full page lists every trap in this dataset.