We prepare and file the Railroad Commission reports your operation owes.
Some are due every month. Others come around once a year. In a small company that work usually lands on the owner, after everything else is done. Send us your numbers and we prepare each report, check it against your own records, and file it on time.
Filing moved online in 2026. The work before it did not change.
On September 1, 2026 the Commission stopped accepting these reports on paper. They all still start the same way: pulling run tickets, hauler statements and meter readings, and tying the volumes out before anything can be entered. Submitting got faster. The work that has to happen first did not.
AllocationEvery recovered barrel is traced back to the property whose water produced it.
The only records we ask for
are the ones the reports need.
Preparing these reports takes your run tickets, your meter readings and your hauler statements. It does not take your revenue statements, your joint interest billing or your bank records, so we do not ask for them and never see them. We do not do accounting, we do not work permits or leases, and we do not go to the field.
EfficiencyAll of your recurring reports
Some of these reports come due every month, others once a year, and two more on cycles of their own. We take the whole recurring set and carry all four schedules, so no part of the calendar stays with you.
P-18 · PR · H-10 · P-5 · H-5 · W-3X
AccuracyOne reconciled set of volumes
Most of these reports draw on the same underlying numbers: what fluid came in, where it went, and what oil was recovered from it. We reconcile that once, from your run tickets and meter readings, and prepare every report from the same set.
Volumes tied out before anything is filed
CostSized for one or two facilities
In the Commission’s own records, the median disposal operator runs two facilities and almost half run exactly one, and the median operator filing production holds four leases. An operator that size is not the small end of this market. That is the middle of it, and it is what this work is priced and staffed for. Nothing here asks you to buy software or run an onboarding project.
Flat per facility · no retainerThe person who does your filings.
Jacob Schoch prepares your reports, reconciles the volumes they are built from, and answers the Commission when it writes back. It is the same person every month, and you can reach him at the number on this page. We use software on our own side to keep the deadlines straight. It does not prepare a report and it does not speak for you.
What the monthly filing costs you now.
Set the three sliders to what this work actually takes in your company. The result is your own arithmetic: the hours these filings consume in a year, and what those hours cost at the rate you enter.
These are your numbers, not ours. Set the sliders to what the work actually takes you. We have not published an average because we do not have one worth quoting yet.
On the figures you entered, the range works out to $11,232–$14,040 a year. It is an estimate from your own inputs, not a quote and not a result we are claiming.
Estimate based on your inputs. The free review returns a firm, flat per-facility quote.
Three things that go wrong
with recurring filings.
A returned filing blocks the next one
One late or rejected report is not fatal by itself. The sequencing is what hurts: a new monthly report cannot be started until the previous one is approved, so a single stuck filing puts every month behind it. As more forms move online, the Commission is expected to start checking the numbers on one against another. We keep your reports consistent with each other so those checks turn up nothing.
Untraced barrels are credited to another operator
Statewide Rule 56 turns on whether a recovered barrel can be traced to its source. Volumes that cannot are allocated back to the properties whose water produced them, and those operators report them as their own production. Nothing is seized and nothing is held back. The barrel simply gets credited to somebody else, which is why the source records matter more than the total.
The filing calendar competes with the field
You are running trucks, tanks and a disposal schedule, and the filing dates land in the middle of it. Reading rule changes and portal notices is a separate job from the one you are doing. Send the run tickets and meter readings and we prepare each report, tie the volumes to your own records, and file it on the date it is due.
What the first month looks like,
and every month after it.
Historical review
We rebuild your filing history from the public record and set it against the numbers in your own files. Every difference is listed with the period it came from.
Reconcile & clear
Imbalances corrected, amended filings drafted, and flagged or pending reports worked directly with RRC staff until the account is clean.
File and follow through
Your monthly filings submitted on time, volumes checked against your meter tickets, and whatever the Commission sends back worked until it is cleared.
Carry the calendar
Some reports come due every month, others once a year, and a couple less often than that. We track what is due and when, so you are not the one remembering it.
The standardEvery number checked against your own tickets before the report is filed.
The monthly cycle,
from your data to the filed report.
After a one-time setup, your monthly filings run on our calendar instead of yours. Each month you do exactly two things: send your numbers and approve the finished reports. We carry the allocation, the filing, and the letters.
- We handle it
We ask for the month’s data
On the first of each month we email you for that period’s volumes, so a filing deadline is never yours to track.
- Your turn
You send your numbers
Attach your data in whatever format your system already exports. No templates, no reformatting, no portal to learn.
- We handle it
We build your filings
We allocate the recovered volumes, reconcile them against what you sent, and prepare each report. Where a number does not agree with your records, we come back to you with the line and the document behind it.
- Your turn
You review & approve
We email the finalized reports. You look them over and give the green light. Your approval is all it takes.
- We handle it
We file & notify
We submit each report in the system that takes it, on your behalf. Where a filing requires notices to other parties, we prepare and send those too.
Two of the five steps are yours: sending the volumes and approving the finished reports.
That is two contacts a month. The allocation, the preparation, the filing and the letters that go out with it are ours. Anything that does not reconcile is raised with you rather than settled without you.
Get started todayThe P-18, straight.
The Commission’s own documents in one place, and plain answers to the questions this report raises most often.
Official Railroad Commission of Texas resources. Emergent Environmental is not affiliated with the Railroad Commission of Texas.
What is RRC Form P-18?
Form P-18, the Skim Oil/Condensate Report, is the Texas Railroad Commission filing for facilities where skim liquid hydrocarbons (oil or condensate) are recovered and then sold or disposed. It documents the water received, the skim oil recovered, and the volume disposed for each reporting period.
Full guide: What is Form P-18?Who has to file a P-18?
Operators of saltwater disposal (SWD) and water-gathering facilities that recover and sell or dispose of skim oil or condensate. If your facility skims hydrocarbons off the water it handles, the Commission expects a P-18.
Full guide: Who must file a P-18?When is the P-18 due?
The Skim Oil/Condensate Report is filed monthly through the RRC LoneSTAR portal, due by the 15th of the month following the reporting period. You can confirm the requirement in the official P-18 instructions linked above.
Full guide: P-18 deadlines and penaltiesCan I still file the P-18 on paper?
No. Effective September 1, 2026, the Railroad Commission no longer accepts hardcopy P-18s; the monthly report must be filed electronically through LoneSTAR. The one exception: corrections to reports originally filed in the legacy system still go to the Production Audit Department on paper.
Full guide: How to file in LoneSTARWhat happens if a P-18 is late or does not reconcile?
Filings that are late, or whose fluid balance does not reconcile to the barrel, can trigger manual review or come back returned until corrected, and the next monthly P-18 cannot be started until the previous one is approved. As the Commission moves more of its forms into LoneSTAR, cross-form checks, like matching P-18 volumes against the H-10, are expected to follow. A pattern of problems strains your standing with the Commission; clean, on-time, reconciled filings keep your account clear.
Full guide: P-18 deadlines and penaltiesWhat is skim oil or condensate?
Skim oil and condensate are the liquid hydrocarbons recovered, or skimmed, from the water a disposal or gathering facility handles. Because they carry value and must be traced to a producing source, the State tracks them on the P-18.
Full guide: P-18 glossaryDo you file the P-18 on my behalf?
Yes, on your sign-off. You send us your monthly volumes; we allocate every barrel, reconcile the fluids, and prepare the report, then submit it to the Commission through LoneSTAR once you approve it. We also send the required skim allocation letters. Your approval is the green light.
Full guide: How to file in LoneSTARWhat does Emergent cost?
A flat monthly price for each facility, with no retainer and no hourly billing. What we charge does not move with your volumes or your revenue. We start with a free review of your trailing filings and quote the price at the end of it, so you know the cost before you decide anything.
Find out what the Commission already sees.
Your filing history is public record, and so is anything in it that does not line up. We rebuild it at no cost, show you what we found and which period it came from, and give you a price to take the reporting over. The findings are yours to keep either way, including if you decide to fix them yourself.