HOUSTON, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 26, 2008, Mining Oil, Inc.

Australian independent oil and gas firm Entek has received a payment of $492,426 as its net revenue share for gas and liquids produced during November 2007 from the High Island 24L gas field operation offshore Texas.

By MICHAEL GRACZYK HIGH ISLAND, Texas - This bump on the flat Texas coast, one of the nation's premier bird-watching meccas where thousands of people from around the world are lured each year, took a direct hit from the tiny but intense Hurricane Humberto.

Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.

By Mark Babineck, Houston Chronicle Jul. 23--MCFADDIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -- Around here, the shortest distance between two points is a mess.