, 1920-05-06
MAY UTILIZE WYOMING'S GAS.
Proposed Pipe Lines Would Supply
Commercial Centers i'm Other
Parts of the Country.

The enormous natural gas fields Of
Colorado and Wyoming, which have.
been utilized for commercial and in
dnstrial purposes to only II limited de-
gree in the past. are beginning to at
tract attention of strong financial i'll.
~ter"stS in the country. with Indications
that large investments in this industry
VIII soon take place, says the Wyoming
Oil News.
Official statistics on the gas Output
of the two states are not available. but
conservative estimates place the cana
city of the wells already drilled Mt
S~lo.oO0,eoO cubic feet every ~ hour,
The principal gas fields in Wyoming
are the Big sand Draw, in Fremont
county the .Alkali Butte field. in Ere
mont county the Mahoncy Dome. in
Carbon county the Medicine Bow
structure. in Carbon county: the Poison
Spider field in Natrona county tie
Lance Creek field, in Niobrnra county
Byron field, on the boundary between
Hidden Dome field, in Washable, Park
and Big Horn COMMITTEES: Little BuffniO
Basin, in Park county the Powder
River field, in Natrona county; the
Pine Mountain field in Natronn county.
and the Golde Eagle Dome, in Hot
Springs county. In Colorado the two
fields are in the White River district
i'll Rio Blanco county and the William
Park structure. in Routt county.
Some uf thn fnS from, tI,a D,,,-.
field is being used in IL carbon plant
at cowley owned by the Midland Car
bon Co, after it first passes through
an absorption plant owned by the
Eastern Fuel Co. The gas from the
Hidden Dome field is used for dome,-
tic purposes in the principal towns In
the Greybull district and in the re-
fineries at Greybull. An absorption
plant in Lance Creek owned by the
Ohio Oil Co., the Buck Crek Oil Co.,
and the Midwest Refining Co., is utii-
izing about 10,000,00O feet ii day. A
pipe line is being constructed from
the Poison Spider field TO Casper and
this gas will he used in the refineries
at the last named point after being
put through an absorption plant. The
Wyoming Yellowstone Oil Co. is
using some of the gas from the Coli
on Eagle Dome III II carbon plant.
The Reasoning Oil Co. has plans under
way for piping gas from the Mahoney
Dome to the towns in southern WyO-
ming. Plans are also reported underS
way for utilizing the gas from the Biz
Sand Draw and kali Butte fields i'll
AN absorption plant and for domestic
purposes in Fremont county. There il
also ON talk of Il line from the Lance
Greek field tn Omaha.
Another project under considerations
is the piping of gas from the Big Horn
district to Butte and Anaconda. Mont.
for use for fuel purposes in the large
Smelters at these two points.
The estimated present capacity Of
Slo,0OO.OOO feet II day is only n small
proportion of the gas which will be-
available upon further drilling, as the
wells are few in number and widely
scattered. Most of the gas has IL largr
gasoline and carbon content, though
it varies greatly in the different fields.
Some of the first tests ON Byron gas
yielded One-fourth of IL gallon of gasu-
line to 1000 feet Of gas, while in the
Lance Creek field the extraction has
been as high rs two gallons to the
1000 feet.