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MICHAEL L. WILLIAMS

Commissioner ELIZABETH A. JONES

Chairman VICTOR G. CARRILLO

Commissioner Contact: Ramona Nye 512-463-4817 AUSTIN - As part of an ongoing process to digitize and index the records for more than one million oil and gas wells drilled in Texas since 1919, the Railroad Commission recently completed imaging all the gas well records for the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth area, one of the largest natural gas plays in the nation.

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