 Primary economic activities in Orange County are the petroleum refining industry, paper milling, rice farming, and shrimping.Orange County was formerly a center for the building of warships, and a large U.S. Navy ghost fleet (reserve fleet) still exists in Jefferson County - from which currently, many old warships are being cleaned of water pollution sources and then scrapped for their metals, thus employment for residents of Orange County in shipbreaking.Newspapers published in the county include the twice-weekly "Orange Leader" and weeklies including the Bridge City-based "Penny Record", "County Record", and "Vidor Vidorian".