Texas RRC Oil & Gas Well Scraper — Operator & Lease Data

Scrape Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) oil and gas well records from the public EWA system. Returns API number, operator name, lease, field, county, district, well type, proration schedule status, and total drilled depth for wells across all 13 RRC districts. Covers 300,000+ wells.

What does the Texas RRC Oil & Gas Well Scraper do?

The actor queries the RRC Enhanced Web Access system by district, county (optional), and well type. It paginates across all result sets within RRC's 1,000-record-per-query limit and assembles a complete, structured dataset. No API key or account is required.

Current coverage is Texas RRC only. The actor slug references WVDEP but West Virginia DEP support has not been implemented — all records in this actor are Texas RRC data.

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
api_number	8-digit API well number (RRC format)
state	State abbreviation (TX for all records)
district	RRC district code (01–10, 6E, 7B, 7C, 8A)
county	County name
lease_number	RRC oil lease number or gas well ID
lease_name	Name of the lease
well_number	Well number within the lease
field_name	Oil or gas field name
operator_name	Current operator company name
well_type	Well type code: PR (Producing), SH (Shut In), AB (Abandoned), TA (Temp Abandoned), IN (Injection), NP (No Production)
on_schedule	Whether well is on proration schedule (Y/N)
api_depth	Total drilled depth in feet
source_url	Direct URL to the well record on RRC EWA

How to use it

{
  "districts": ["08"],
  "wellTypes": ["PR"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Returns up to 1,000 producing wells in RRC District 08 (Permian Basin) across all counties. Scraping all producing wells in District 08 without a county filter returns approximately 85,000 records — plan run cost and time accordingly.

{
  "districts": ["01", "02"],
  "counties": ["015", "021"],
  "wellTypes": ["PR", "SH"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Returns producing and shut-in wells in Austin and Bastrop counties within Districts 01 and 02.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
districts	array	Yes	RRC district codes: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 6E, 7B, 7C, 08, 8A, 09, 10
counties	array	No	Texas county FIPS codes (3-digit). Leave empty to iterate all producing counties in each district
wellTypes	array	Yes	Well type codes: PR, SH, AB, TA, IN, NP
maxItems	integer	Yes	Maximum number of well records to return

County FIPS codes are the standard Texas 3-digit county identifiers (e.g. 015 for Austin County, 113 for Jeff Davis County, 227 for Midland County). The full list is published by the US Census Bureau and the Texas Association of Counties. Leave counties empty to let the actor iterate all oil-producing counties in each requested district.

Well type reference

Code	Description
PR	Producing — currently producing oil or gas
SH	Shut In — capable but production suspended
AB	Abandoned — permanently plugged
TA	Temporarily Abandoned — inactive, not yet plugged
IN	Injection — used for enhanced recovery or disposal
NP	No Production — drilled but never produced

Use cases

• Mineral rights research — identify operators and production status for specific leases, fields, or tracts across Texas counties
• Energy analytics and land data — enumerate wells by district, field, or operator for production analytics or basin mapping
• Landman and land brokerage databases — build or refresh lease and operator records across all 13 RRC districts
• Regulatory and ESG monitoring — track well status changes (e.g. producing to abandoned) across operator portfolios

Notes

• The RRC EWA returns a maximum of 1,000 records per district-county-well type query. The actor splits searches by county to stay within this limit and iterates all counties when none are specified.
• The actor inserts 300ms delays between requests to avoid overloading the RRC system.
• api_depth is the total drilled depth from the API filing and may differ from producing perforations.

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