Oil and Gas Producers Keep Eye on Wildfires in Louisiana, Texas

摘要

Officials in Louisiana have warned Hay-nesville Shale operators to safeguard theirdrilling and production sites against wild-fires while blazes in Texas have led to a dropin demand for natural gas.In drought-stricken Texas, 26 wildfireshave burned 114,000 acres and destroyedmore than 1,700 homes and other build-ings while in neighboring Louisiana, ninefires were reported in Caddo Parish in theheart of the prolific Haynesville Shale nat-ural gas play.