By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development Eagle Ford Shale Community Development Program is hosting a workshop titled “Scenario Planning: Adapting to Unanticipated Change” on Thursday, September 26, 2013, in Eagle Pass, Texas from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. at…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon Copyright 2013 The State of Texas Governor’s Small Business Forum together with the Dimmit County Chamber of Commerce are hosting a one day conference discussing opportunities in the Eagle Ford Shale on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, at 10 A.M. at the Pan American Event Center, 3421…

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune September 5, 2013 LAREDO — The impacts of a new oil and gas drilling boom on this South Texas city and the communities surrounding it have been staggering. Towns that didn’t have gas stations before now have multiple hotels. Laredo’s population has grown by…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Terrace Energy Corporation successfully completed a re-entry of an existing Eagle Ford Shale well on its 147,000 acreage in its Maverick County Project on August 8, 2013, announced David Gibbs, President of Terrace Energy Corporation. Gibbs noted that “while our initial primary target continues…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon Copyright 2013 Texas transportation and oilfield equipment entrepreneur Douglas S. Cain, President of Lake Truck Lines, Inc. and Lake Oilfield Services, Inc., envisions Eagle Pass, Texas as “the Gateway to the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin Shale” because of its strategic geographic location within…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 A United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, grand jury indicted Eagle Passan, Jose Flores, III, an Eagle Ford Shale contractor, on July 17, 2013, in Del Rio, Texas, on two counts including bank fraud and fraud by…

The Eagle Ford Shale now ranks as the largest single oil and gas development in the world based on capital expenditures. Wood Mackenzie Ltd.1 recently calculated that oil and gas companies will spend $28 billion in the South Texas Eagle Ford play during 2013. In 2012 many infrastructure projects had…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Although besieged by the second largest prison escape in Mexico, 132 prisoners, on September 17, 2012, and subsequent intense and fierce gun battles between local, state, and federal police forces, the Mexican military forces, and the elite…

By: Jose G. Landa Eagle Pass Business Journal The Eagle Ford Shale increased traffic dangers and accidents have caused Maverick Count;y residents the loss of internationally reknowned cardiologist, Dr. Ricardo G. Cigarroa, services at his Eagle Pass, Texas medical offices located at the Maverick County Hospital District at 3406 Bob…

In a late evening accident at an oil company site approximately 27 miles south of Jourdanton, three workers were injured. It was later determined that two men, had very severe injuries. These men were transported by ambulance to the Atascosa Sheriff’s Department for triage and later airlifted to San Antonio…