What's New at the Railroad Commission of Texas

What’s New features new content to the Railroad Commission of Texas website, including form and rule proposals and adoptions, regulatory advisories and notices, job postings, events, news releases and media advisories.

Job of The Week

• RRC - Systems Support Specialist III 
  

  The Railroad Commission of Texas seeks an experienced Systems Support Specialist III within the ITS Desktop Support staff to provide highly complex (senior-level) computer systems support work. Work involves providing customer support for agency information technology systems and operating automated office equipment. May train others.  Updates, maintains and provides customer support for end-user authentication systems. Creates, deletes and maintains email accounts. Creates, deletes and maintains server accounts. Provides desktop computer support to end users.  Helps maintain compliance with related agency, state and federal statutes and policies. Must be able to lift, carry and move printers, computers, and monitors. Work is performed under general supervision with some latitude for exercise of independent judgment. Performs related work as assigned.

  
  
  More information on Careers at RRC

Regulatory

• RRC Accepting Comments on Revisions to Form P-18, Skim Oil/Condensate Report (05/02/2023)
• Save the Dates - RRC Regulatory Conference (05/01/2023)
• RRC Commissioners Assess Nearly $900,000 in Fines (04/27/2023)
• RRC Accepting Comments on Draft Oil & Gas Division Monitoring and Enforcement Plan (04/25/2023)
• NTO - Plan of Correction Letters Electronic or Online Filing Mandatory September 1 (03/20/2023)
• RRC Adopts Amendments to LPG Form 501 (02/22/2023)
• NTO - RRC Adopts Amendments to Regulations for Compressed Natural Gas and Liquified Natural Gas (02/09/2023)
• NTO - U.S. Chemical Safety Board Recommendations Following their Report on the 2019 Aghorn H2S Incident (02/06/2023)
• NTO - Disposal Well Monitoring and Reporting Requirements in the Permian Basin (02/06/2023)
• NTO - Updates to Form CI-D and Form CI-X Online Filing System Launch January 31 (01/30/2023)

Data & Information

• Texas Oil & Gas Production Statistics for January 2023 (04/04/2023)
• Texas Drilling Permit and Completion Statistics for February 2023 (03/08/2023)
• Severe Weather Outlook (08/22/2022)
• Railroad Commission Takes Transparency a Step Further with New Flaring/Venting Database (02/16/2022)
• U.S. Department of Energy -U.S. Oil And Natural Gas: Providing Energy Security and Supporting Our Quality of Life (09/2020)

Media

• RRC Begins Well Plugging Work in Houston Neighborhood (03/16/2023)
• RRC Concerned Texas May Not Be Able to Maximize Federal Funds to Plug Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells (02/27/2023)
• Numbers Show Natural Gas Supply in Texas Held up During Winter Storm Elliott (01/17/2023)
• RRC Receives National Award for Work on Abandoned 100-Plus-Year-Old East Texas Mine (10/26/2022)
• RRC First in Nation to Utilize Federal Funds to Plug Even More Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells (10/19/2022)
• Marshall Mine Wins RRC’s Texas Coal Mining Reclamation Award (05/05/2022)
• RRC Investigation Does Not Indicate High H2S Levels at Boehmer Lake (04/08/2022)
• RRC Implements First-Ever Operator-Led Plan to Reduce Seismicity in West Texas (03/07/2022)
• RRC’s Commissioners Approve Financing Order to Keep Monthly Gas Utility Bills Low (02/08/2022)