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Sep. 11—AUSTIN — The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 820 original drilling permits in August 2023, according to a press release. The total includes 710 to drill new oil or gas ...
Aug. 9—AUSTIN — The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 772 original drilling permits in July 2023. The total includes 681 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged ...
Oct. 11—The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 626 original drilling permits in September 2024. The total includes 580 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores ...
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...
States require a drilling permit before a well begins drilling. Requirements to receive drilling permits generally include minimum setbacks from lease or unit boundaries, and adequate casing and cementing programs. States generally require permits for or notices of major work done on a well, and periodic reports of oil and gas produced.
Railroad district (12 total, county boundaries) County; In Texas, the highest level of land subdivision is the boundary of the state itself. Below this are the Texas railroad districts, of which there are 12. These are Spanish grants, surveyed on the "metes and bounds" system of measurement, and are of irregular shape and size.
But Texas is dogged by problems linked to disposal of drilling wastewater underground. The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) regulator has grappled with leaks and blowouts from orphan wells, as well ...
The sixth through tenth digits (20130 in the example above) of the API number is a unique number within the county where the well was drilled. In states with very few wells, the unique number may be based on the permit number, and may be unique within the state rather than the county. This is an unusual situation.