Texas Oil & Gas Association - 1997

TXOGA - 1997

When the TXOGA formed in 1917 the concept and plan for the organization was very general in nature. However, TXOGA soon found out that in addition to general problems, there were national problems to be dealt with. TXOGA had local problems in various states that needed attention, guidance and problem solving, and as a result of the local issues they begin to split into state organizations and thus on July 1, 1919, two local divisions were formed under the general auspices of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association. These were known as "Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Kansas-Oklahoma Division" and "Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Texas-Louisiana Division."

But as we all now know well, you couldn’t stop the growth of oil in the United states and soon the Louisiana-Arkansas area had grown to such a size that a separate division of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association was necessary and so on January 4, 1923, the Louisiana activities of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association were separated from the Texas activities, and the "Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Texas Division" and the "Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Louisiana-Arkansas Division" were formed.

Oil keep growing and twelve years later, oil operations in the states of Mississippi and Alabama became quite extensive, and the "Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Mississippi-Alabama Division" was organized at Jackson, Mississippi, on October 27, 1944.

So in 1997 the Texas oil & gas industry, Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association changed it's name to the Texas Oil & Gas Association, TXOGA, thereby signifying a new era for the organization.

Subsequently, the national Mid-Continent organization elected US Oil & Gas Association as its name. It has four affiliated divisions, (1) the Oklahoma Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, with headquarters at Tulsa; (2) the Texas Oil & Gas Association, with headquarters at Austin; (3) the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, with headquarters at Baton Rouge; and (4) the US Oil & Gas Association, Alabama-Mississippi Division, with headquarters at Jackson, (formerly the Mississippi-Alabama Mid-Continent.)