{"id":14429,"date":"2012-07-06T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=14429"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:40:57","slug":"while-profits-are-up-in-the-eagle-ford-shale-so-is-road-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/06\/while-profits-are-up-in-the-eagle-ford-shale-so-is-road-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"While Profits Are Up in the Eagle Ford Shale, So is Road Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13957\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/27\/as-drilling-operations-continue-texas-roads-suffer\/fm81_09eagle-ford-shale\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13957\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13957\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/fm81_09eagle-ford-shale-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/fm81_09eagle-ford-shale-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/fm81_09eagle-ford-shale-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/fm81_09eagle-ford-shale.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo courtesy Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truck traffic on FM 81 in the Eagle Ford Shale formation area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/eagle-ford-shale\/\">Eagle Ford shale<\/a>\u2019s development in Texas is growing stronger from increasing production, as crude oil growth overtakes natural gas production. And with more production comes more profitability,\u00a0according\u00a0to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaldata.com\/reportstore\/Report.aspx?CompanyID=jpr&amp;ID=Eagle-Ford-Shale-in-the-US-2012-Oil-Shale-Market-Analysis-and-Forecasts-to-2020&amp;ReportType=Industry_Report&amp;title=Oil_%7E_Gas#TabsHeader1\">new report by GlobalData<\/a>, a business research company.<\/p>\n<p>The shale\u2019s liquid production has increased nearly sixfold, going from 10.8 million barrels of oil in 2010 to 57.5 million barrels in 2011. With almost 6,000 drilling permits distributed since the beginning of 2011, the total gross production from the Eagle Ford shale is expected to reach 207.3 million barrels in 2012, and stabilize at 1,386.3 million barrels in 2020, according to the report.\u00a0But with that growth comes a price.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling trucks are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/27\/as-drilling-operations-continue-texas-roads-suffer\/\">doing their damage on Texas roads<\/a>, especially on highways, bridges, or other roads not designed for heavy loads. The Texas Department of Transportation said Monday that damage from those trucks is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2012\/07\/02\/4075195\/drilling-trucks-have-caused-an.html\">two billion dollars<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><div class=\"related-content alignright\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/27\/as-drilling-operations-continue-texas-roads-suffer\/\">As Drilling Operations Continue, Texas Roads Suffer<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/03\/19\/roads-killed-texas-adds-up-damages-from-drilling\/\">Roads Killed: Texas Adds Up Damages from Drilling<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/02\/shale-gas-and-the-rebirth-of-texas-gulf-coast-refineries\/\">Shale Gas and the \u201cRebirth\u201d of Texas Gulf Coast Refineries<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/04\/drilling-still-on-the-rise-in-texas\/\">Drilling Still on the Rise in\u00a0Texas<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/394935-dewitt-county-road-damage-cost-allocation-study.html\">a report<\/a> released by DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler, whose county sits in the middle of the shale, tax revenues from drilling will not be enough to fix the roads. The report says that DeWitt County received\u00a0$7.2 million in property taxes for the fiscal year ending in September, but will need as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/394941-press-release-road-damage-cost-allocation-study.html\">$342 million to replace or repair 394 miles of roads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, taxes and donations are the only two viable options available to fix county roads,<br \/>\nwhich may require up to $80,000 per mile to repair and up to $1,900,000 per mile to rebuild,\u201d Fowler said in a statement accompanying the report. \u201cAustin may be waiting for a rainy day, but you could describe our situation as similar to being in the middle of a monsoon; and it\u2019s high time to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full DeWitt County Commissioners report on road damage in the Eagle Ford shale:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/394935-dewitt-county-road-damage-cost-allocation-study.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"DeWitt County Road Damage Cost Allocation Study (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<h5><em>Robb Jacobson is an intern with StateImpact Texas.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagle Ford shale\u2019s development in Texas is growing stronger from increasing production, as crude oil growth overtakes natural gas production. And with more production comes more profitability,\u00a0according\u00a0to a new report by GlobalData, a business research company. The shale\u2019s liquid production has increased nearly sixfold, going from 10.8 million barrels of oil in 2010 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":13957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[64,21,249],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16464,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions\/16464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}