Table 6.—Production and value of mineral fuels 
 1 1 barrel of crude oil equivalent to 5,600 cubic feet of natural gas or
57.6 gallons of natural gas liquids, acomposite of 52.7 gallons of natural
gasoline and 60.8 gallons of LP gases.750 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers coastal and harbor projects included improvement
of Galveston Harbor and Channel, extending a 42-foot-deep entrance channel
from the Gulf to near Galveston North Jetty, and a 40-foot-deep channel to
the junction with the Houston ship channel. The navigation channel of the
Sabine-Neches Waterway was being deepened to 40 feet from the Gulf of Mexico
to terminals at Sabine Pass, Port 
Arthur, and Beaumont. A 12-foot channel in the Sabine River from Orange,
Tex., to Echo was being dredged. Other coastal projects included deepening
the Houston ship channel to 40 feet, the Matagorda ship channel to 36 feet,
the Texas City channel to 40 feet, and completion of a 9-foot channel from
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to Victoria, Tex., with a connecting side
channel to Seadrift. 
 
REVIEW BY MINERAL COMMODITIES 
 
MINERAL FUELS 
 
 Texas remained the Nation's leading producer of crude oil, natural gas,
and natural gas liquids. Petroleum production advanced for the seventh consecutive
year. 
 For the second time in 10 years, the domestic oil industry helped compensate
for Middle East supplies that were cut off by the war between Israel and
Arab nations. An alltime production record of 
 
  Crude petroleum  Natural gas'Year —— ——————
— 
 Thousand Value Million cubic Value 
 barrels (thousands) feet (thousands) 
 
1963              
1964              
1965              
1966           
1967               
1963               
1964               
1965              
1966               
1967               
 977,835 $2,908,380 6,205,034 $775,629 989,525 2,928,994 6,490,202 809,180
1,000,749 2,962,119 6,636,555 858,396 1,057,706 3,141,387 6,953,790 903,993
1,119,962 3,375,565 7,188,900 948,935 
 
Natural gasoline and 
 cycle products LP gas Total 
 
Thousand Value Thousand Value Thousand Value 
gallons (thousands) gallons (thousands) gallons (thousands) 
 
 3,320,416 $218,975 5,366,831 $169,695 8,687,247 $388,670 3,512,460 232,245
5,521,236 167,492 9,033,696 399,787 3,772,471 256,959 5,847,601 204,666 9,620,072
461,625 3,890,267 269,332 6,359,870 260,755 10,250,137 530,087 4,031,589
277,105 7,449,439 320,328 11,481,028 597,481 
 1 Marketed production, gas either sold or consumed by producers including
losses in transmission, amounts added to storage, and increases in gas pipelines.

 
Table 7.—Production trends of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas
liquids 
 
 
(Million 
barrels 
of oil equivalent) 
 
Year 
 
Production1 
 
Perce 
ntage of— Change of reported year 
 
 
 
 
Annual totai 
 
 
Oil 
Gas Liquids 
Total 
Oil Gas Liqt~ids 
Oil Gas Liquids Total 
1963             
1964             
1965             
1966             
1967             
 978 
 990 
1,001 
1,058 
1,120 
 1,108 151 1,159 157 1,185 168 1,242 179 1,284 199 
2,237 
2,306 
2,354 
2,479 
2,603 
43.7 49.5 6.842.9 50.3 6.842.5 50.4 7.142.7 50.1 *7.243.0 49.3 7.7 
3.7 2.0 5.6 3.01.2 4.6 4.0 3.11.1 2.2 7.0 2.15.7 4.8 6.5 5.35.9 3.4 11.2
5.0