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Show Tl rli3T1tfyMii Unlocking Gas from Sandstone Methane Anadarko Basin. The basin is one of the nation's most productive from conventional wells. But this basin, he emhas 22,300 phasizes, cubic miles of sediments Hydrates: Enormous quantities of natural gas may be cap- tured beneath per- mafrost in bottoms where methane and water have combined in an icelike substance called methane hydrate. Developing these unconventional gas sources has long been dismissed by many geologists as too difficult and costly. But we could drill a La., a geopressure test a 12,600-foo- t well probe into sandstone soaked thousand with deep-ocea- n Near Baton exploration geopressure wells by late next year, and two major coal-toga- s Lowuit beuiqia National Geographic Society Oy e JELIJ LIKE POIAMLH, oozing onto a at (lie Dowell Division of Dow Chemical in fulsa, Okl.i., is one of the kevsforuiiloikiiignatur.il g.i- impiisoned in chemists hand - sand. The tightlv packed, concrete-tougthe In sandstone is released fracturing gas h with a mixture of water, special sand, and the polv mer. The haul, round, large-graisand (photomicrograph loll) jams open the fractures. Ordinary sand (photomicrograph right) is too fine to keep cracks open lor maximum gas flow. high-pressu- n Photon) crogr aphs by Dowel! Division of Dow Chemical USA oil I are companies reported to be planning privately financed projects. In Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico 20,000 importing liquefied natural gas and on building a pipeline to the Midwest from new fields in Alaska. Engineering and construction costs of these underground to crack thfe rock and free the gas. Please turn to page 9 I water plete at least three 3 at great pressure Power & Light Co in may have by now received a letter from Utah on your property. forming you of a large power line to be constructed ey Do not b e m too big of a hurry in signing any contract with therm o this way. for right will approach us with an offer of giving so much will e 1 hey do not ask what we want for it Remember, this right of way wi of use property future the your forever and what the inconviente to whose professionals, Co. by a be You are dealing with large represented sole interest is the Co they work for Let us unite and get a professional to represent us have had this experience before and it has helped me for our provery much Lets be prepart'd to tell them how much we want how much us ask t don perty, instead of them making an offer to us They we will give them for their povxer, do they? This also would apply to the State of Utah, who will be starting next in Juab County spring in aquiring right of way for the continuance of am willing to do my share in seeing that we get the maxium amount it possible lor the property they will take from us and the inconvenience w ill be to us Please feel free to contact me if your thinking is the same as mine in this matter Ross Harper Levan, Utah Phone proved highly promising. The Department of Energy hopes to com- plant. In addition to conversion plants, efforts to ensure adequate supplies of gas in the United States focus on fluids You Rouge, d concrete, are proving worth drilling for gas, thanks to such new techniques as forcing Attention Property Owners below 15,000 feet and of one it has percent only ever been touched by a drill. wells, Hodgson quotes a government researcher, "for the coast of one coal-ga- wells have been pushed in the regions sedimentary basins. The tight sands, more dense than western Oklahomas more than 1,000 TCF. wnuMnr hiii ii 62J-117- 0 methods of supplying natural gas will mean a consumer cost of about $5 per thousand cubic feet by 1985 or earlier, Hodgson says. Of the six unconventional natural gas sources, deep basins are I already Much natural gas left untouched, says survey by Robert C. Radcliffe National Geographic News Service More gas than we've ever dreamed of, enough for centuries, may well await searchers who have so far underestimated or ignored "unconventional sources, National Geographic magazine reports. Bryan Hodgson, in the hydrologist. There's good scientific evidence that this brine could contain as much as 50,000 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas, Jones That's said. equal to 2,500 times our present yearly production. If we recover only a small percentage of all this gas, Geopressure zones: In the United States, they center on the 150,000 miles of sandstone and shale beneath the Gulf Coast regions. Deep basins: Drillers are finding large quantities of gas at depths between 15,000 and 30,000 feet. tight Hodgson sands: New extraction November magazine, quotes a government re- methods have begun tapwed more ping concrete-harsays that as a result in- searcher, sandcreasing numbers of than quadruple our pre- stones in the Rockies d engineers, scientists, and production men now re- ject predictions that the United States gas re- sources will soon run out. At least one potential mother lode of natural gas, dissolved in brine trapped in shale and sandstone, lies beneath the Gulf Coast region, Hodgson was told by Dr. sent estimates of potential resources. But this is scarcely mentioned as a possibility in our energy plans. Hodgson reports that six types of unconventional gas sources are found within the United States: 2Nephi, which may hold as much as 800 TCF. Coal seams: Some 850 TCF of gas is believed held in the seams of Americas coal. Devonian shale: This dense rock underlying 90,000 square miles of Appalachia may trap Utah 1978 The Times-New- s Volume 69, No. 49 December 7, 1978 Vance Western producing. Robert A. Henfer III expects to product 70 to 360 TCF of gas from wells 15,000 to 40,000 feet deep that his company is drilling in The Times-New- s P. 4 Allan R. 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