Texas Drilling Permits — Railroad Commission (RRC) W-1 Feed

The only Texas drilling-permit feed on Apify. Structured, deduped oil & gas drilling permits straight from the Railroad Commission of Texas's official public Drilling Permit (W-1) Query — the same source the majors and the thousand-dollar data vendors read. Filter by county, operator, permit status, purpose, and date; get one clean JSON record per permit.

Texas is the largest oil & gas producer in the United States, and every well starts with a W-1 drilling permit filed with the RRC. This actor turns that public filing stream into a lead feed and a dataset.

Who buys this

• Oilfield-service suppliers — a New Drill permit is a buy signal for rig services, casing, cementing, and wireline. Get the operator and location the day the permit issues.
• Frac sand, water, and proppant haulers — new horizontal permits in the Permian (Midland, Reeves, Martin, Loving) and Eagle Ford (Karnes, DeWitt) mean tonnage and truckloads to bid.
• Drilling-chemical & mud vendors — target operators by name and county before the well spuds.
• Landmen, mineral buyers, and title shops — track who is permitting on which lease, by lease name and API number.
• Analysts & researchers — a same-day, filterable alternative to Enverus / DrillingInfo, which cost thousands of dollars per year.

What you get — one record per permit

Verified live example (Midland County, approved 2026-07-02):

{
  "source": "webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP",
  "statusNumber": "916198",
  "apiNumber": "329-48443",
  "status": "Approved",
  "currentQueue": "Approved",
  "statusDate": "2026-07-02",
  "submittedDate": "2026-06-03",
  "operatorName": "PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC.",
  "operatorNumber": "665748",
  "leaseName": "TURNER E41H",
  "wellNumber": "8H",
  "district": "08",
  "county": "MIDLAND",
  "wellboreProfile": "Horizontal",
  "filingPurpose": "New Drill",
  "amended": false,
  "totalDepth": 10317,
  "stackedLateralParentDp": null,
  "permitDetailUrl": "https://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP/drillDownQueryAction.do?name=TURNER%2BE41H&fromPublicQuery=Y&univDocNo=499229404"
}

Every field is normalized: dates are ISO YYYY-MM-DD, the operator name and its RRC P-5 number are split apart, total depth is an integer, and the amended flag is a boolean. Each record links back to its official RRC permit-detail page.

Freshness & coverage

• Daily. The RRC issues drilling permits every business day; the W-1 query returns them the same day. This actor reads that query live — no monthly lag.
• Back to 1977. Query any historical window, not just the recent past.
• Statewide. All 254 Texas counties and all 13 RRC districts.
• Official source. Data comes directly from the RRC public query at webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP — no third-party middleman.

Input

Field	What it does
county	County name (e.g. Midland) or 3-digit RRC code.
operatorName	Operator name contains (e.g. PIONEER).
operatorNumber	Exact RRC operator (P-5) number.
leaseName	Lease name contains.
filingStatus	approved (default), pending, all, and more.
filingPurpose	all (default), newDrill, reenter, …
dateFrom / dateTo	YYYY-MM-DD window.
dateBasis	Apply the window to the approval or the filing date.
maxRecords	Spend cap (default 1000).

At least one of county, operatorName, or a date range is required.

Example: all New Drill permits approved in Reeves County so far this month:

{
  "county": "Reeves",
  "filingStatus": "approved",
  "filingPurpose": "newDrill",
  "dateFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-07-22"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• $0.01 per actor start
• $0.01 per permit record

A typical monthly pull for one busy Permian county (a few dozen to a few hundred New Drill permits) costs cents to a couple of dollars. Priced against the alternative: comprehensive commercial permit intelligence (Enverus / DrillingInfo) runs into the thousands of dollars per year, and there is no other Texas drilling-permit actor on the Apify Store. The per-record rate sits well above the general-filings baseline on this catalog ($0.003/record) because these are high-intent, high-value oil & gas leads with buyers who already pay enterprise data prices.

How it works & politeness

The RRC W-1 query is a public, unauthenticated government portal — no login, no CAPTCHA. This actor runs a single sequential session: it bootstraps a query session, POSTs your filters, reads the server-rendered results grid (20 rows per page), and pages through with polite delays and exponential backoff. It sends a descriptive User-Agent and never runs parallel requests against the RRC. An optional Apify proxy can be enabled if you are ever rate-limited.

Notes

• This actor reads public records published by the Railroad Commission of Texas. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the RRC.
• The RRC also publishes a daily pending-permits bulk export, but it contains only applications awaiting approval. This actor uses the W-1 query instead because it covers every status (approved, pending, denied, …), the full history back to 1977, and filters server-side by county, operator, and date.