Onshore impacts of offshore oil and gas activities: coastal impact assessment. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5641248

This report presents the results of a study carried out to determine the existence of and examine the nature of economic impacts on Texas communities from oil and gas development activities in the Texas offshore area. The analysis included comparisons of several coastal communities, and a comparison of the coastal communities with an inland community. Each of the areas was looked at over time, including forecasts to 1990. Two major types of impacts related to onshore support of offshore oil and gas activities were identified. These impacts were related to water supply needs within coastal communities, and to the coastal communities' ability to finance general capital improvements. The need for increased water supply capacities was one of the most significant impacts identified. The demand for increased capacity was generated from three sources: (1) increased demand as a result of projected baseline growth (using 1982 Texas Department of Water Resources population projections); (2) increased demand from offshore related population growth within the study communities; and (3) increased demand from offshore support bases for water to be used in drilling processes. All of the communities were projected to encounter difficulties in financing these improvements. In addition, the fact that different agencies supply water to some of the individual communities complicates the process of increasing supply capacity. Several of the communities were projected to experience difficulties in securing long term financing to fund general capital improvements. The exact issue which limited the ability to use long term financing was different in each community. The issues ranged from charter limitations to inadequate revenue streams to excessive debt burdens. 4 figures, 160 tables.

• Research Organization: Rice Center, Houston, TX (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5641248
• Report Number(s): TENRAC/EDF-085-Vol.2A; ON: DE84900424
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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