MESA MAPS STRATEGY TO OFFSET LOW GAS PRICES

Mesa Limited Partnership, Dallas, one of the biggest independent gas producers in the U.S., is poised for a campaign to bolster cash flow despite weak wellhead prices. The campaign will follow financial transactions that retired all of Mesa's bank debt, which totaled $916 million at yearend 1990. It now has more than $300 million for working capital and capital spending. Salomon Bros. Inc., New York, represented Mesa in the debt restructuring and sale of $616.6 million in notes. Mesa does