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Every drilling permit
in Texas, refreshed
every morning.

The Railroad Commission publishes every W-1. We pull the feed each morning and re-check the previous two weeks, because filings and status changes land late. Then we tell you where that county keeps its deed records, and who the operator on the filing actually is now.

All three are free. The permit search asks for an email. Nothing else does.

OIL & GAS M&A · ONE EXAMPLE SEQUENCE

One company, walked
across one hundred and twelve years.

  1. Humble Oil Co

    foundedRoss Sterling, et al. · Humble, TX

  2. Humble Oil & Refining

    incorporatedTexas producer consolidation

  3. Humble Oil & Refining

    acquired byStandard Oil NJ takes remaining interest

  4. Exxon Company USA

    renamedStandard Oil NJ rebranded; subsidiaries unified

  5. ExxonMobil

    mergedFTC #991-0077 · closed Nov 30

  6. ExxonMobil

    acquired XTO$41B · Fort Worth Permian shale operator

  7. ExxonMobil

    acquired Pioneer$59.5B · largest upstream deal in Exxon history

This is one walk.
The set holds 3,327 more name-pairs.

The rest are findable by name: search the archive . Curated reference set. Not exhaustive, not chain of title. Free, no signup.

That’s one hundred and twelve years on the record. The room that reads it is next.

We’ve made the calls.Worked the pipeline.Closed the deal.These are the toolswe built to do it faster.

THE ROOM
  1. 01INDEPENDENTSRead the week's W-1s off a daily pull, not off a lease broker's mailer three weeks later.
  2. 02MINERAL COMPANIESWhich portal actually holds that county's images, how far its index runs, and whether it's free, registration-walled, or paid.
  3. 03FAMILY OFFICESTrace an operator back through its acquisitions before you decide whose name is really on the check.
  4. 04BROKERSPermit activity by county and operator, exportable to CSV, so you can work a basin instead of a rumor.

Who is drilling. Who owns it.
Who you are actually calling.

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