Lone Star Technologies provides operations update Following Hurricane Rita
  by: OilOnline
  Friday, September 30, 2005

Lone Star Technologies, Inc. has announced that it resumed normal operations at its largest manufacturing facility, Lone Star Steel Company in Lone Star, Texas and its Bellville Tube Company plant in Bellville, Texas on Monday, September 26, 2005 following a two-day shutdown related to Hurricane Rita. Operations at its Star Energy Group's OCTG finishing facility in Houston, Texas, which were suspended on Thursday, September 22, 2005 in anticipation of the hurricane remain curtailed due to power supply interruptions and limited staff.