The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-14
MILLIONS OF FEET WASTED;
CONSERVATION BADLY NEEDED
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In Many Giles and Towns in The
Gas and Oil Bell Gas is Burned
Day and Might Unchecked

ne ~ tHlttfu atlOl ltitrt VI iltANN' ~
gas and the difficulties encountered
hY Kansas and Missouri towns IN
getting an adequate supply from Oh
lahoma are rulzling 10 persons VIII,
visit The gas fields IN Tins state
Appafcuth there should he no uced
OF alarm II the resent production
were CONSERVED. Furthermore. the
natural gas resources In what may
now be REGARDED as undevelopel
fields are 80 enormous as 10 he dim
cult Of calculations An Important
truth abont Oklahoma natural gas lS
that VI has been wantonly wasted
millions upon millions OF cubic ieet
having Disappeared into air merely
because oil producers did not care to
be annoyed by il in operating their
wells. Generally oil and gas are
found in the same Well
Great Waste Of Gas
Oklahoma has laws for the con
servation Of natural gas. and an oil-
cial whose duty il is 70 prosecute per
sons mallciously wasting gas 1t is
difficult however TO enforce that
law Recently in the neighborhood
OF Cleveland a well that was being
saunk for OIL developed a gas flow of
t;iirty million cubic feet day, The
gas was turned loose that it might
escape until the pressure was so low
as not to interfere further With the
search for oil.
The development of the Kay count
gas Field " in marked contrast with
the methods that have been employed
in eastern Oklahoma It is a new
field and the heaviest production is
three or four miles southwest of
Ponca City and near Blackwell The
company that has developed the field
has from twenty wells a measured
daily production OF 200 million cubic
feet, of which only a slight quantity
Is going TO market All the gas sands
in the wells are sealed with rubber
packers, at cost of about $1,000 for
each we'll No gas escapes One of
these wells has an output of 35 mil
lion feet a day and two others SO
and 80 million feet An million
feet well was brought in several days
ago near Blackwell
Can Increase Output
The development company, direct
cd By T. w. Marlin, an experienced
Oh and gas man from rittsburg, Pa,
has heavy holdings both at Ponca
City and az Blackwell Its pipe lines
from the ponca City field serve Now
kirk and Ionkawa. and another pipe
line runs 10 tho Chilocco Indian
school within the last two or three
weeks the company contracted WITH
the Wichita Natural Gas company tol
supply Arkansas City Winfield and
Wellington. Kansas. the next ten
years with not less than 5 million
feet 4 day In The coldest weather
the maximum consumption Of Gas in !
Ponca city. Ncwkirk ana Tohlsawa IS
barely a million feet "A dav. about | |
per CEN OF The comganys present oui |
put The output can be easily In
creased TO q much larger figure
glass factory. now hnldnq 1t /
Ponca City, has contracted for a /
daily supply OF / million feet nj three /
cents a thousand For domestic pur |
poses the net price OF eighteen cents /
a thousand is raid at Blackwell ana |
twenty seven cents a NeWkirk and !
Tonkawa
Blackwell is preparing TO vote a
bond issue OF 100000 whereby il Will |
practically own its gas This SUM lai
To b ~. ended IN building a pipe line |
from the proven field near Blackwell |
rhe pipe line to be leased to the gas /
COMPANY nj 81 a year in exchange for /
3cent gaa
Best Pressure at 800 Feet
The best gas IN The Kay county
field comes from The l200Goot sand .
Natural gas was discovered near
Ponca CITY eight or nine years AGO
at a dep,h Of Eve hundred feet. and
nom these wells the town received
moderate supply The wells eradu
alyy declined, and a further supply
was obtained by drilling new wells
Marlin came into the field for the
special purpose OF finding natural GAS
IN commercial Quantities and CON
serving Il IN a business like way.
Indications OF oil caused the sink
inc OF dec-er wells. In 1910 a we'll
with flow of s million feet was
brought in In this field the first gas
Is at $50 feet. the second at 25O. the
third al 500, the fourth at 900 the
nth a l.30e and the sixth at 500
Al SEQ feet the rock pressure is $50
pounds. 2a0 at 500 feet. 350 al 800
feet and 400 at 1.500 A flow of 10
million feet has been found al 500
feet The life OF these wells is
problematioal, yet the l.300 foot sand
shows steady production
Because Of our care in preventing