By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Five Eagle Ford Shale Oil and Gas workers were seriously injured in an oil drilling rig explosion on Friday, October 24, 2014, near Cotulla, Texas. La Salle County emergency rescue crews rushed to the scene of the oil drilling…

Eagle Pass, Texas, September 11, 2014: (Press Release) On September 11th and 12th, Maverick County Development Corporation in conjunction with Eagle Ford Consortium organized an excursion for the State of Coahuila Economic Development Delegation to visit the Eagle Ford Shale. The activities initiated with a ceremony held at IBC Bank…

(San Antonio, Sept. 23, 2014) –The production of oil and natural gas in the Eagle Ford Shale generated more than $87 billion in total economic output for the state last year, according to a study released today by The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Institute for Economic Development. UTSA researchers also concluded that…

AUSTIN — The energy boom is bringing jobs and prosperity to communities in the Eagle Ford Shale region, but it also is putting more traffic, work crews and trucks on local roadways. In an effort to reduce crashes in these increasingly busy areas, the Texas Department of Transportation is reminding…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. While University of Texas at San Antonio researchers estimate that the Eagle Ford Shale Oil and Gas boom has generated a $61 Billion total economic impact and supported 116,000 jobs in 20 South Texas counties, a severe consequence of…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A shortage of low rent housing in Eagle Pass is forecasted due to the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas boom, announced Mary Velasquez, Executive Director of the Eagle Pass Housing Authority.  Velasquez had just attended the Eagle Ford…

“Opportunity should be the key word pumping through the brush country of South Texas as oil and gas production keeps rising from the Eagle Ford Shale”, Sen. Carlos Uresti said this week. “Jobs and investment in this area continue to surge, bringing opportunity to individuals and communities across the region,”…

By: Dr. Tom Tunstall Roads in the Eagle Ford Shale are under intense pressure from the voluminous truck traffic that now runs up and down South Texas highways–literally hundreds of trips per day on many of them. What is becoming apparent is that there is a disconnect in the Texas…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Heckmann Water Resources, an Eagle Ford Shale company, was slapped by one of the largest jury verdicts in the State of Texas for the amount of $281 Million by a Dimmit County, Texas jury in a wrongful death case…

By: Jose G. Landa© Local city and county officials, public dignitaries, educators, business representatives, and many other community members attended the Eagle Ford Shale Economic Impact in Maverick County Forum held on Monday, November 18, 2013 at the Sul Ross State University-Rio Grande College, Small Business Development Center, located at…