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Wednesday, January 22, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 i gas production problems iSfoker says Texas officials must join to solve problems IDEiYfTI Assoclated Press sa j c j g ov Mark White, Lt. - - ' [USTIN — A Panhandle oil and Gov. Bill Hobby, Speaker Gib Lewis, iroker said Tuesday the state’s Comptroller Bob Bullock and Texas’ [lected officials should join to- railroad commissioners need to get together “in a big room and say, ‘Hey folks, let’s cure this problem’ — No. 1, identify it, and No. 2, set about to cure it.’’ /-Ml ho/ thought is is VH/tT Alt AiWT! I r to solve oil and gas produc- broblems in that region, includ- jie “white oil" dispute. InSlover of Amarillo, who iden- 1 himself as a "volunteer spokes- for mineral and royalty own- aid major oil and gas companies Dtplaying fair in the Panhandle aid not specify any company, over said if the majors “don’t [someone out there drilling for jid gas, they force them out of field. It’sjust that simple.” ahandle oil and gas production ly will become the political hot Itoofthe 1986 statewide political if something isn’t done very [about it.” Slover said. Slover said White, Hobby and Le wis also should write the Federal En ergy Regulatory Commission and tell the commission to “get the heck out of our business.” He said if he were a Panhandle oil producer he would ignore a Rail road Commission letter against re porting “white oil” as crude oil. Two legislative committees are reviewing whether the water-white liquid pro duced by chilling vapors to as low as 20 degrees below zero should be considered crude oil. Asked if the committee’s recom mendations might be the answer to the problem, Slover said, “Heck no, not by any means.” White oil operators lost their ar gument in state district court to count the liquid as oil, and the case Filed by white oil interests was ap pealed to the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin. Counting the liquid as crude oil enables certain operators to meet commission standards for classifying a well as an oil well, which has pric ing and production advantages over gas wells. In September, the commission sent letters to the operators of 541 wells that had been retested without refrigeration, or LTX, units, and or dered 271 wells shut-in, effective Oct. 1. Some later passed the oil well test r>f qt least one barrel of oil per 100,000 cubic feet of gas and were reinstated as oil wells. At the same time, the commission notified all Panhandle field opera tors that they would have to start storing, measuring, and reporting LTX liquids separately from well head liquids, beginning with Jan uary production. “If I were an oil producer in the Panhandle, I would personally disre gard that letter and would report all lease production as being lease pro duction,” Slover said. He said the letter from Jim Mor row, director of the commission’s Oil and Gas Division, “constitutes a bla tant disregard for small oil and gas producers, mineral owners, state and local taxing entities, and even for the commission’s own formal proceedings and orders.” MSC TRAVEL and OLSON TRAVEL present Harold Conway’s GREAT BRITAIN 1986 July 9-August 17 40 days $2500 see the sights of England, Wales, Scotland for more information MSC Travel 845-1515 Harold Conway 845-8793 Police beat if MW WWM jilsT Wromj tTSM g incidents were (oned to the Texas A&M Uni- rsity Police Department ough Mondav: MISDEMEANOR THEFT: > A Seiko watch and $4 were len from a room in Dorm 4. /About $62 was stolen front a let in the Read Building. > A wallet was stolen from a tnin Dorm 10. i Three wire wheel covers t stolen from a 1985 Chevre packed in lot 32. / Three wire wheel covers x stolen from a 1981 Oidsmo- rkedon Ball Street. LONY THEFT: / A 1977 Chevrolet C-10 Icup truck was stolen from PA that IF hi m system r'ers of tilt mestyprod ij in thissl -Rodino t anctions» ood. i new uor^ discrin means, »A 1977 Chevrolet pickup | stolen from PA 71. j A 1979 Mercury Cougar was jen from PA 67, A backpack and contents |e stolen from the Commons. BURGLARY OF A BU1LD- p: p An oxygen regulator, ace- tor, two hoses and torch were stolen Jachry Engineering OF A MOTOR Model 1 stereo speak- from a 1976 Dat ed in PA 9. OF A COIN OP- was stolen from a bill changer on the third Boor of the Zachry Engineering Cen ter. ASSAULT: • A woman reported while she was on Bail Street, two. men wearing cowboy hats drove by and made disturbing com ments about her and her hus* -1 band. She said she became ftight- 3 ened when she overheard one of j the men mention about killing her. DISORDERLY CONDUCT: • A woman reported seeing two men fighting in the Memorial Student Center fountain area. CRIMINAL TRESPASS: • A woman reported that while she was sleeping in Briggs Hall, she was awakened by a man standing by her. She said she | yelled at him and he ran out of the room. CRIMINAL TRESPASS/AS- SAULT: • A woman reported, that j while she was sleeping in Spence Hall, she was awakened by a man who was touching her. The woman said she asked what the man was doing and he replied, “Do you want to make love 5 ” The woman said “No” and the man left the room. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: . ;; j • A University Police officer reported seeing tire tracks on the drill field by Dorm 11. He said a vehicle had done several dough* nuts on the field and had driven over two bushes. ' I Residents ask state to prohibit issuing of sewage permits Associated Press FORT WORTH — Residents of Eagle Mountain Lake have asked the state to prohibit new sewage permits in the wake of art influx of thou sands of gallons of effluent into its once-clear waters. One lake resident said he remem bers when its waters were so clear that he Could read the manufactur er’s name on his water skis. “The clarity of the water just isn’t there anymore,” Gilmor Lauder dale, 41, said. The Texas Water Commission in Austin will hear a request Wednes day by members of Save Eagle Mountain Lake Inc. for a mora torium on new sewage permits. Tarrant County and Fort Worth legislators and the Tarrant County Water District have supported the proposed moratorium. Save Eagle Mountain Lake, orga nized by property owners, claims that experts have confirmed the wa ters are not as dean as they once were. Residents have spotted foam floating on the water and “gobs of green slime.” “It’s like something from a horror movie,” Lauderdale said of “green globs found near discharge sys tems.” Residents who once swam in the lake now avoid it. “I won’t swim in it anymore,” said Roy Buie, who moved to the lake in 1948. “It used to be clean. Now, it’s murky. There’s a constant froth.” Lawyer Hal Sparks, who moved to the lake three years ago, said he en visioned fresh air and water and country living. “It smells horrible in some of the sloughs,” Sparks said. “When we first moved here, I had no inkling that anything was amiss. We thought we had moved to a haven free from auto pollution. It turns out we’ve simply traded one pollution for an other.” Save Eagle Mountain Lake was or ganized after the water commission sent notices of a permit application for more wastewater disposal in the lake. The anti-pollution group has grown from 11 members who met for the first time last March to more than 300 members. They have spent about $30,000 in legal and research fees. The group learned that 12 per mits, including those of the cities of Azle and Newark, allow nearly one million gallons of wastewater to en- ter the lake daily. *:•’.vox : * > •..£> V.. r •• • -f o-’T Sifirma Nu Year Party Wedensday o January 22 K.C. 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