Photo by
Dana Stubbs Marker dedicated Aug 30, 1967
Location: lawn of the US Post Office, Corsicana,
Texas
Early
Texas Natural Gas Pipelines
First Public use of natural gas
began in Texas in 1902, from transmission lines on this street, serving
local homes and businesses. These early lines were forerunners of
mains that now transport Texas gas to three-fourths of the United States
and Mexico.
Other natural gas industry
pioneer achievements in Navarro county were the first use of meters, in
1905 at Chatfield (12 mi. NE) and first use of gas in pumping oil wells
in the Corsicana field, 1906.
Developers of Navarro fields
expanded to Clay county, and in 1907 were supplying natural gas to
Henrietta and Wichita Falls; Fort Worth and Dallas were furnished
service in 1909-1910. By 1918 new fields supplied Laredo, San
Antonio, Waco. Today Texas is spanned by over 83,000 miles of gas
pipelines.
A 1918 discovery opened the
Amarillo field, soon recognized as the world's foremost gas field - and
point of beginning, during the 1920's, of the first interstate natural
gas pipelines.
Texas now has 27 pipeline
companies exporting gas. Annual production rate is nearly
eight trillion cubic feet. A number of wells deliver more than 20
million cubic feet per day. Texas has 42.3 per cent of proven
United States Natural gas reserves.
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