Show petroleum areas in in wyoming wyoma ng are beyond state geologist G B morgan of wyoming has issued a bulletin in which he shows that the rapidly expanding areas in which petroleum exists is beyond computation or comprehension in his report lie he says it is impossible to estimate the oil resources of wyoming there are seventeen fields in the state where oil is being produced for the market there are seventeen other fields wherein oil has been struck but not marketed as yet there are also scores of prospective fields or wildcat structures some of which will probably be found to contain large pools of oil it is roughly estimated that the wyoming fields contain oil reserves amounting to about barrels the discovery of new fields will naturally increase this figure the total production up to 1920 from wyoming fields approximates barrels which is about 1212 12 per cent of the estimated remaining available supply the report comments in detail on the immense natural gas oil shale and iron and copper resources of the state and treats also gold silver platinum and allied minerals uranium radium lead zinc tin cobalt asbestos asphalt brick and fire clay cement materials fullers earth glass sand building stone graphite gypsum manganese mineral water phosphate rock potash salt soda and sulphur resources mineral resources merely man mentioned in the bulletin include agates and crystals alum arsenic barite bismuth borax corundum diatomaceous earth tungsten and pumice stone oil and gas the report on oil and gas follows the great mineral asset of the state is probably petroleum wyoming oils are of two kinds the light colored green and brown oils ofa high baume gravity and paraffin aln base and the heavy black oils containing an asphaltum base by far the greater production and values are in the light oils generally speaking the light oils are found in formations of the cretaceous system and the black oil comes from much older rocks principally in the carboniferous permian and pennsylvanian the table following gives the production of petroleum by counties in 1918 and 1919 1918 1919 county barrels barrels B big 9 horn carbon converse 3 crook fremont hot springs natrona niobrara Nio brara park sweetwater uinta crook weston for the first six months in 1920 the production of petroleum amounted to barrels it is estimated that the th e total production for 1920 will be more than barrels the average price being paid for wyoming oils today is per barrel wyoming crude oil sales for this year will exceed wonderful resources one of the largest and most promising of the undeveloped resources of the state is natural gas very little use has so far been made of the immense gas pools scattered throughout the central and western portions of the state the annual consumption of gas from the oil and gas fields amounts to about ten billion cubic feet of chidi which about seven billion feet are pro deuced in the byron and hidden dome dry I 1 gas fields the balance being obtained fromi from the various oil fields the combined OU oil and gas fields of the state are capable of producing one billion cubic feet per day the following table shows the estimated daily capacity of the principal gas fields assuming the normal use of the gas as be ing from 15 to 25 per cent of the open flow of the wells normal daily ca lacity in millions field county of cubic feet byron big horn so 50 oregon basin park loo little buffalo basin park and hot springs 50 hidden dome big horn and washakie 50 golden eagle hot springs 35 big sand drew fremont 4 45 alkali butte premont fremont 4 40 0 rock springs sweetwater 23 25 powder river station pine mountain I 1 poison spider iron creek natrona 1055 mahoney carbon v 60 allen alien lake medicine bow carbon Carbo onn 45 lance creek niobrara Nio brara 50 total in practically all of the producing oil fields casing head gas is used for power and domestic purposes and in the grass creek salt creek elk basin and byron fields the gas is first passed through absorption or compression plants for the extraction of casing head gasoline which amounts to about gallons per year gas for industry s the largest industrial use of gas is for the extraction of carbon black the byron field furnishes about cubic feet fee per day to the carbon plant located at cowley another carbon plant is lo 10 located C abed near thermopolis Thermo polis utilizing gas from the 1 golden eagle field the capacity of this plant is cubic feet per day the oil refinery at greybull is using about cubic feet per day from the hidden dome and byron fields the city of 0 casper is now preparing to take gas for or P from the domestic and industrial use fields field spider pine mountain and iron creek the main pipe lines have been practice practically tica 7 completed and distri distributing distribution butin g lines are now no being laid of the available 9 gas as resources in wyoming only about three per cent cen Is being utilized at the present time the thea aver a t the age market price for natural gas cubic c wells is about four cents per thousand feet and acono eco the gas resources invite wise T hey mic development and industrial use a as S Z industries should appeal to such espe brick tile and cement manufacturing materials for such sue bially since raw tries are to be found in many places P n carbon the state burning natural gas tor for in on black may not be wasteful I 1 if f carried for fields where the gas is not available adaila other industries and domestic purposes dothe dathe industry inda natural gas gasoline of the use to a great extent on the treats after ai e gas for fuel or carbon black ment inasmuch as it would be an escape g it to 0 i ranted waste of gas to allow plant pia into the air from the gasoline |