RRC’s Porter lauds Texas upstream performance, knocks Feds

SAN ANTONIO -- Presenting a long list of his state’s E&P superlatives, Texas Railroad Commissioner (TRRC) David Porter also took aim at the Obama administration during a lunchtime speech in San Antonio today. Speaking to attendees at the Energy, Air & Water Conference of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, the largest producers association in Texas, Porter described how he has presided over, and tended to, the amazing growth of the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas.