As expected, most of the crude refined in Louisiana and Texas 

 is produced within those states. However, since the total crude 

 oil (including OCS) produced in Louisiana and Texas for 1973 was 

 831,524 and 1,294,671 thousand barrels respectively (U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Interior, 1975), the state oil refined per state oil 

 produced ratios for the states were 0.49 for Louisiana and 0.66 

 for Texas. This indicates a substantial difference between the 

 states in terms of the economic impact of oil production. Since 

 Louisiana transports a larger percentage of its production to 

 be refined elsewhere, it reaps a smaller proportion of the total 

 potential economic benefits of its oil production. The ratio's 

 for total oil refined per state oil produced are 0.62 and 0.81 

 for Louisiana and Texas. Thus Louisiana gets some of the benefits 

 of other states' oil production but again not as much as Texas. 



The pipeline distribution of refinery products from 

 PAD district III (of which Louisiana and Texas are a part) 

 to each of the other PAD districts is summarized by prod- 

 uct for the year 1973 ( Table 1.8). PAD I is the most im- 

 portant recipient of PAD III products, accounting for 74.5% 

 of the refinery products of PAD III shipped by pipeline. 



The importance of PAD I as a recipient of PAD III petroleum 

 products is further illustrated by Table 1.9, which shows the 

 shipments of products by tanker and barge from the Gulf Coast 

 to the East Coast, PAD District II, and the West Coast. Again, 

 the East Coast accounts for 84.7% of the Gulf Coast products 

 shipped by tanker and barge. 



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