(WO) — With greater than 15 million information digitized prior to now yr, the Railroad Fee of Texas now has 83.4 million oil and gasoline information that may be searched and seen on-line from wherever on the planet.
The large quantity of labor is a part of the RRC’s ongoing success in rising transparency and making the huge trove of data held on the company simply out there to the general public.
Because the oldest regulatory company in Texas, the RRC has oil and gasoline information courting again to the Thirties on paper in district workplaces and on microfilm. The company has been digitizing these information and inserting the pictures on-line for a number of years, permitting anybody with web entry to view them.
Paperwork which were digitized embrace oil and gasoline manufacturing information and effectively completion information that include info resembling effectively depths and producing fields of a effectively. These information are used typically by researchers, landowners, royalty house owners, power firms and public info requesters.
“Placing hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of oil and gasoline information on-line is a win-win for the general public and the company,” stated Danny Sorrells, RRC Deputy Govt Director. “Not solely does it give the general public quick access to historic info courting again virtually 100 years, however our workers can now dedicate the time they might have spent monitoring these information for the general public for different duties on the company.”
District workplace paper information and microfilm information which were digitized may be discovered on the RRC webpage