all of them the ones you've just seen more of the men and women who serve me so that i can better serve you the way you see me now a small blue fl on the turn of the century the young men of science joined in the search for me and added a new phrase to the gas industry vocabulary the geology and later words the study of the now it is porous stone with tiny spaces between its particles capable of containing natural gas as you know gentleman many millions of years ago chemical and bacterial action converted on janick materials deep within the earth into oil and gas then through more millions of years of geological history the gas migrated through the porous sandstone layers like water through a sponge and collected in underground and they sometimes occurred in the highest points or antique lines of folded rocks here on an impervious layer rock the gas was imprisoned to be released only through the wells drilled by modern man i realize of course that this is all very basic and highly new to you gentlemen but i remind you of the to emphasize the significance of the subsurface picture we've constructed out of samples taken from my test wells and these pieces of rock sound of the surface some distance away they look like this you see the static line i noticed particularly the sandstone about the producing formation recently one of our survey crews made an interesting discovery it found the same sandstone at the surface in places about fifteen miles from a new gas field these rocks were in layers tilted like this it looks to us as if the top has been worn off and upward fold of sandstone and what could this have to do with another gas field and we think that the gas producing sandstone under the formation must be full of the same way and there's a chance of another and the client that's it exactly seems like an awful lot to assume just from his rocks gentlemen as you know the demand for natural gas are continually going up and up and we can't afford to go on drilling mostly on hunches and hoping for a lucky break i appreciate your giving me the opportunity to test at their ease of subsurface geology and i'm going to ask you to have even more faith  he's finding based on what we know for sure and signs of what to expect i'm recommending that we drill our next test well right here and now comes a time when those who would serve me must dare to venture for this is the moment of the big decision financially the risks are substantial it's never easy or alone wildcat driller or a company like this the decision has been made the company will proceed with a new test well as recommended by the geologist and now it's only a question of turning a lot of probabilities into reality because you don't ever really know about finding me until you drill down and get me or get a dry hole rugged skilled determined these were the modern counterpart of our early buns yours truly these men did not know the meaning of the word impossible nothing could stop not mountain rivers or swamp in terms of man materials capital investment the building of these nations banning pipelines would already underway but with this tremendous expansion of my use came another interlocking problem solving this one would need to be a group effort and taking on the challenge was still more of the people in my ever growing family men from the engineering procurement and transmission department now gentlemen i'd like to review the crux of our problem with a simple parallel think for a moment of these pipelines and super highways and then visualize a situation where such a highway is jammed to overflowing during the rush hours and only partly use that time it's a reasonable enough parallel when you look at the great seasonal variation in gas consumption which our industry faces every year