Integrated Oil & Gas Data: From Choke Pressures to 218 Countries · Head-to-head
JODI Oil & Gas World Database vs Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data
Which integrated oil & gas data: from choke pressures to 218 countries data fits your job: JODI Oil & Gas World Database, or Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
JODI Oil & Gas World Database
Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | JODI Oil & Gas World Database | Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data |
|---|---|---|
ref_area | documented | not in this set |
time_period | documented | not in this set |
energy_product | documented | not in this set |
flow_breakdown | documented | not in this set |
unit_measure | documented | not in this set |
obs_value | documented | not in this set |
assessment_code | documented | not in this set |
API number | not in this set | documented |
lease / well name and ID | not in this set | documented |
district | not in this set | documented |
field number / field name | not in this set | documented |
completion date / plug date | not in this set | documented |
Coverage, side by side
| JODI Oil & Gas World Database | Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | Participating economies worldwide; 52 countries filed in the most recent cycle; varies by country and product | State of Texas - all RRC districts, every county, plus offshore state waters |
| Temporal | Oil from January 2002, gas from January 2009, both running to the current cycle | Summary production since 1935; lease-level production since 1993; drilling permits since 1976 |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| JODI Oil & Gas World Database | Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI), coordinated by the International Energy Forum with APEC, Eurostat, GECF, IEA, IEF, OLADE, OPEC and UNSD | Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), regulator of the largest US producing state |
| Subject lens | Country-reported supply balances: production, imports, exports, refinery intake, stocks and statistical differences for oil (and gas from 2009) | Upstream ledgers: lease-well-field production, drilling permits, wellbore completions and pluggings, organization and injection inventories |
| Geographic coverage | Participating economies worldwide; 52 countries filed in the most recent cycle; varies by country and product | State of Texas - all RRC districts, every county, plus offshore state waters |
| Temporal coverage | Oil from January 2002, gas from January 2009, both running to the current cycle | Summary production since 1935; lease-level production since 1993; drilling permits since 1976 |
| Detail level | One row per country x product x flow x month; no sub-national or company detail anywhere | Per-well/per-lease/per-field monthly production; permits at application level; GIS layers per well |
| Units | Kilobarrels, thousand barrels per day, kilolitres, kilotonnes, converted barrels; bcm and energy units for gas | Barrels of oil and condensate, MCF of gas, per lease-well-month |
| Scale | About 283,000 primary-product rows and 637,000 secondary-product rows per year | Millions of rows: every permit since 1976, roughly 1.5 million-plus wellbores, three decades of lease-months |
| Field documentation | Verified during research, column by column | Documented from dataset descriptions; record layouts worth confirming before ingestion |
| Best for | Cross-country balances, trade exposure, refinery intake and stock dynamics | Basin and county productivity, permit momentum, well-level asset work |
What each does better
JODI Oil & Gas World Database
The flow architecture. Every product is reported against named balance-sheet steps - indigenous production, total imports, total exports, direct use, refinery intake, transfers and backflows, opening and closing stock levels, stock change, from-other-sources receipts, and an explicit statistical-difference line that absorbs imbalance instead of hiding it. That makes demand-minus-supply questions answerable without reverse-engineering definitions; see refinery throughput for the step most analysts reach for first.
Two product ladders on one spine. The primary file covers crude oil including lease condensate, NGL and other feedstocks; the secondary file covers LPG, naphtha, motor and aviation gasoline, kerosenes including jet fuel, gas/diesel oil, fuel oil and remaining products. Roughly 283,000 primary and 637,000 secondary rows carry a single year.
Unit flexibility and a gas twin. Values arrive in kilobarrels, thousand barrels per day, kilolitres or kilotonnes, with a converted-barrel option for derived figures, and a companion natural-gas database running from January 2009 reports dry marketable production, receipts and trade in bcm and energy terms. Fifty-two economies filed in the most recent cycle, and the dictionary behind all of it is the pairing's only research-verified one.
Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data
Any question containing the words Permian, Spraberry or district 08 lives here and nowhere else.
Six production series, split the way engineers argue about them. Total oil, total gas, crude oil from oil wells, condensate from gas wells, gas well gas and casinghead gas - the condensate-versus-crude distinction is exactly the seam a country-level aggregate erases. The summary tables stretch back to 1935, with lease-level detail spanning three decades.
The paperwork layer. Drilling-permit master files cover every application since 1976 with latitude and longitude attached (drilling permits as an auditable ledger, not a count), the Full Wellbore file carries completion and plugging dates for roughly 1.5 million-plus wellbores, and P-5 organization records, UIC injection-well inventory and GIS shapefiles round out the picture. Revisions are honest too: May 2026 sits flagged preliminary, with six-to-eight months of late and corrected filings still to land.
Where they're equivalent
More than their different shapes suggest. Both report at month grain - JODI's grid is monthly by design, RRC's production tables run months against years - placing each among the 296 of 1,744 cataloged datasets whose native frequency is monthly. Both score 8/10 against the catalog's 7.81 average. Both ship as documented tabular schemas rather than narrative PDFs alone, both measure physical volumes in stated units rather than index numbers, and both rest on reporting obligations - member-country submissions on one side, regulatory filings on the other - rather than modeled estimates. Each also marks data status explicitly: a colour-coded assessment code on the JODI side, preliminary-month flagging with a published revision window on the RRC side.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit - they are different instruments pointed at the same industry.
Take JODI Oil & Gas World Database if your question crosses a border. Accept the ceiling: no state, basin or company appears behind any number.
Take Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data if your question names Texas ground. Well-level productivity, permit momentum ahead of production, county leaderboards, condensate split from crude, plugging activity across 1.5 million-plus wellbores - anything answered by regulatory ledgers keyed to real wells. Accept the frame: the state line is hard.
Investors and quants tend toward JODI for macro positioning and toward RRC for asset-level factor work; market researchers and consultants usually want both - the country backdrop for the deck, the county detail for the model.
Sample both, pick by fit. See JODI Oil & Gas World Database · See Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data
Or take both in one feed
Yes - they stack because they occupy different layers of the same system. A defensible workflow: let JODI set the country frame - US production, imports, refinery intake and stocks against the other 51 reporting economies - then read RRC underneath the United States cell, since the largest producing state supplies much of what moves that national line. County and field detail becomes your explanation for the aggregate.
Three alignments decide whether the merge holds. Second, units: kilobarrels and thousand barrels per day on one side, barrels and MCF per lease-month on the other, needing one conversion pass before any sum. Third, revisions: RRC figures stay provisional for six-to-eight months of corrected filings while JODI carries an explicit statistical-difference line - align vintages before comparing, or the seams will show as phantom swings. Browse the rest of the shelf at the integrated oil & gas data hub.
Datadory ships either record alone or both merged onto one calendar, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Or take both in one feed.
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Fair questions
Is JODI Oil & Gas World Database better than Texas RRC Oil & Gas Data?
Better at different jobs. JODI owns the country balance sheet: monthly production, imports, exports, refinery intake and stocks across 52 reporting economies back to 2002, with an explicit statistical-difference line.
Do the two datasets cover the same ground?
Only partly. Both log hydrocarbon volumes at month grain with a data-status marker attached. JODI aggregates each economy's flows across a nine-step supply chain and names no region below the country; RRC names every district, county, field, lease and well inside Texas but stops at the state line. One is a worldwide scoreboard, the other a well file.
Which dataset reaches further back?
Depends which clock you wind. RRC's summary production tables stretch to 1935 and its permit ledger to 1976, with lease-level detail from 1993. JODI's oil series starts at January 2002 and its gas series at January 2009, both carrying complete flow-by-product grids from their first month. Depth favors Texas; consistent structure favors JODI.
Which should an analyst studying Permian well productivity sample first?
Then add JODI to place Texas output inside the US national balance and the 52-economy global picture. Sample rows arrive before anything ships.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes - alone or merged onto one calendar, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call. Each arrives normalized to its documented field dictionary (seven fields on the JODI side, six on the RRC side) with sample rows for inspection. The joining work is aggregation-aware alignment - country cells above, well-level ledgers below, units reconciled - handled in the merge. Or take both in one feed.