Work has begun in the area of the newest urban natural gas drilling site in Shreveport-Bossier. Trees are being cut on 17.5 acres on the south side of East Flournoy Lucas Road across from Gullo’s Fresh Produce and Cypress Baptist Church. Residential homesites at The Oaks of Louisiana, Southwood Terrace and Twelve Oaks are close by.
Maps indicate the main entrance to the large drilling site will be off of East Flournoy Lucas.
The site will be owned and operated by APEX Natural Gas LLC, the same company that is actively drilling on East 70th Street near the Jimmie Davis Bridge and has recently purchased a site at the former Shreveport Country Club near Greenwood Road…