The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-11-02
POSSIBlLITIESaaOF4as. I
'''''"'GAS OF NORTH
ABaQHRTIONlPLANTSlW IN
h qREASET CREDEI. PRICESa BYH
T2rJaT YTIQSEITHIRD ,noiisToqroo
w. HI Ball Ballard, State Gasoline In
2oSPfct9rn Says Gasoline Could lie
m EXTRACTED frem Wet Gas at Con
siderable Profit nv LQIHHHQ da

NE OF benommns Vd375Ii 9IG uOI
That the gas fields close in to
Shelby Will produce in sufficient
quantity to be- the basis Of d big
new aipdpstrErin. the way of plants
to extract the, gasoline; that the,
VET gas Coming from the producing
y6ib wells lcan be Utilized to increase
the gravity ofotheo oib and thus dn-il
crease its PRICE by at least one third
regardless Of whether the field
TpafcB fsi 70D ct1its Of double that
usHaunts and thatnsuch use7of the
GAS, would so inpegesase the profits
sums of ihUngy for future drilling
deveIopxuemtsl wereo the optimistic
preediGtip4ls of w. H. ballard. state
gasoline inspector, who was i'm the;
north held Oh am Inspection trip
,recently. sisis9 lG9r ni6II92 9aoi'
off Tbig,o flows of EgaS that have
been leparted fromswells north, north
eastosndd erthmest of eShelbyJRltsafd
BallaEdr fAFe sufficient Iproof of the
existence Of gas sands with opotenl
tbiapllt production Fgnning into thecmnl-
tiFpliieedd ters Of empiillipnsdofIau cubic feet
o ESe15 The gas areas are drilled into
pF FNa uffttibpp99 xiThhssJ fl99K Wogldthe@ be
great enough to Justify the cpnSSttgpc7
ton of plants at Shelby to extract the
gaasSo5lfiihfasp cdntettt', Which would give
ehpl55yment Is f many 2 people, and
MEAN .sdbseahriain paaay1r9odilss oIi In = your our
citediTos9b 3niwoliol chi al9to' ''''"
! Advises Test Plants 'tl1'qo''
niaaditFon Il aam c6nfidsGt That
carefuievfRvestigau6H byl Operators
willedemunstratsl sthe Feasibility oAdf
putting in small Habsorption So plants
wheTeYeEnaugroup 0fIiwei1s aren pro-
ducing sYHtrgas, .asoWell as'foil.a BY
the .NsAeaf suehuplantsnahe'q gas oils
forced Up through ItellItanEs dfilled
with Ie IT rpiddeI with bthe respltnthatpthe
crude a {bb ogfYgs, nm9ost efntbefgasoline
content, thus RAISING gs the gravity and
the r. valve dgs of thhs oil for FsfiningrgI
believe it conservative stRt sayo that
an increase : of ten degrees gravity
could be produced on an average for
Kevin-Sunburst oils, and this increase
would addrtp) the sale price of the
crude at least one-third. nOTITT a
"These plants have in recent years
been developed toiIan High degree Of
efficiency and the cost rofsthem would
Justify their installation by anyIgroup
IF Wells with production of 800
barrels per day ,5o,rr mere, if there be at
.uch wells at the same time gas |
production of say half a million feet |
,er5day. LESS gas might be sufficient |
f it were very %et4that is to say, |
ichAih gasoline content 4" ~
Mr. Ballard pointed out that the
gasoline extraction was comparative
v new in years, but that it, had iii re-
ent years assumed the proportions
Il really big business.
hae alProYed SrccessLHTHl MI
"Tt was not until 1911 that the |
rod dctfon' IF gasoline from natural |
,as, cameIto lbeDof sufficient size IT'D I
Justify its inclusion lin the report of !
he bureau of, mines at Washingtonp
}. G.;3d'he cohtfnted, "and at that |