ENROLLED
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 91
BY REPRESENTATIVE BISHOP
A RESOLUTION
To designate Wednesday, May 1, 2019, as the fifth annual Oil and Natural Gas Industry Day
at the state capitol.
WHEREAS, hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents depend on the oil and
natural gas industry for their livelihoods, from rigs to office jobs, and more than two hundred
sixty thousand Louisianans are employed by the oil and natural gas industry; and
WHEREAS, the oil and natural gas industry continues to be the foundation of the
state's economy with a $72.8 billion economic impact, generating over $19 billion in
household earnings for Louisianans, with energy jobs and earnings found in all but one of
the state's sixty-four parishes; and
WHEREAS, the oil and natural gas industry not only brings jobs to cities and
parishes in Louisiana, but it injects money into the local economy and Louisiana oil and
natural gas enables communities to not only survive, but to thrive; and
WHEREAS, the oil and natural gas industry is one of the biggest contributors to
Louisiana's economy, paying nearly $2 billion in direct and indirect taxes to the state
treasury that helps pay for schools, health care, roads, and other state-funded initiatives; and
WHEREAS, the oil and natural gas industry in Louisiana is the biggest private
investor in the state's coast, funding research, working with top scientists, and investing in
dozens of private and public projects that all work to protect and improve our coastline; and
WHEREAS, Louisiana is the nation's number two producer of crude oil and the
number four producer of natural gas among the fifty states, ranks number two among the
states in petroleum refining capacity with its eighteen refineries, and has over ninety-two
thousand miles of pipelines transporting crude petroleum and natural gas within the state and
in its offshore area of the Gulf of Mexico.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby recognize Wednesday, May 1, 2019, as the fifth annual
Oil and Natural Gas Industry Day at the state capitol and does hereby commend the industry
for more than a century of partnership with Louisiana, providing jobs and economic benefits
for the state while providing the energy that fuels a nation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
members of the United States Congress as an expression of the support of the Legislature
of Louisiana for the oil and natural gas industry in Louisiana.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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