Texas

The football stadium at Texas Christian University (TCU), which swells in the fall with the purple-and-white clad students and fans who are better known as the Horned Frogs, soon will be sharing space with natural gas drillers.

Torrential rains that have swept through Oklahoma and other parts of the Midwest and Texas have come at an “incredible cost to the oil and gas industry,” the chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) said last week.

An estimated 18 million acres offshore Texas will be up for lease in late August when the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) holds the first sale in its five-year (2007-2012) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing program.

Torrential rains that have swept through Oklahoma and other parts of the Midwest and Texas have come at an “incredible cost to the oil and gas industry,” the chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) said Tuesday.

An estimated 18 million acres offshore Texas will be up for lease in late August when the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) holds the first sale in its five year (2007-2012) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing program.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Texas oil and natural gas well driller Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. for several violations and has proposed penalties totaling $47,600 for allegedly failing to protect employees from hazardous working conditions.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Texas oil and natural gas well driller Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. for several violations and has proposed penalties totaling $47,600 for allegedly failing to protect employees from hazardous working conditions.

CPS Energy, which is owned by the City of San Antonio, has completed a prepaid gas supply deal that it claims is the first in Texas where a municipally-owned utility is the sole purchaser in the prepayment transaction. Gas customers of CPS stand to save more than $100 million over the next 20 years because of the prepay deal, CPS said.

CPS Energy, which is owned by the City of San Antonio, has completed a prepaid gas supply deal that it claims is the first in Texas where a municipally-owned utility is the sole purchaser in the prepayment transaction. Gas customers of CPS stand to save more than $100 million over the next 20 years because of the prepay deal, CPS said.