Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 21 | Natural Gas and Oil Loss is Enormous

NATURAL GAS I AND OIL LOSS 15 ENORMOUS F Modern Equipment Makes Make Muzzling of Unchecked y Flows Less Difficult Em Emulsion Also Blamed W WASHINGTON J Nov 17 B By A. A P. P of natural gas and oil all through ugh flooding seepage waste and negligence in m the various ulous fields in the terl On Stat States s have been enormous according to statements statement of the tho inte into or based ballel upon a recent survey b by the burc bureau au of mines While the oil and end gas Industry has hasl t l' f. f steadily and has been fr lr revolutionized during the four y four years of or I its ts existence If Josses have run Into untold millions nf feet of JaB gas and gallons of of oil fuel Flooding of t oil o sands s by water at h have Irreparably aI damaged entire tI oil 1 and andas gas as fields the water trapping under under- eO oil that re a probably a neer ne'er e will willbe n be recovered o. o water in a an o oil well o o 0 Increases asu lifting costs costa that many Is ZUs eUs are abandoned t before the nor- nor t. t recovery of ot oil and gas Is ob- ob arn d' d i Corrosive waters attack casing and 1 eat holes holu in It Operators ln n the tha Kansas Kansa Eldorado field alone thousands of at dollars annual annual- i fY Y replacing casin casing tubing sucker r 1 r Ids ds and other equipment so de- de l tJ Although blowouts and wll wild l wells Swells elb were formerly the greatest I factors in Sn n the tle loss 1011 modern equip equip- has made it easier to muzzle ne unchecked flows The ThA old l of allowing gu 1 rs to waste vaste tend olland and gas unchecked until the force torce i was stopped by ins cave-ins or decreased an appreciable amount has been done away with but not before of ot dollas' dollas worth of at the natural natural nat- nat ural r resources o were lost In the e early h esc t days of the Cushing hin Field In Okla- Okla f horna in 1912 and 1913 it J ed d feet of ot gas w were vote e wasted wast- wast ed d dally daily Large flowing g wells which og d. d b tr from gt t to t. t cubic feet teet of gas dally daily were allowed to flow the operators only gathering the oil Until recently no use was nade of ot ga gas gal produced In the Salt crack Jr r el ek yield field of Wyoming and the dally daily i loss OS was estimated at cubic cubio i In 1912 the amount t of ot gas con- con throughout the country was cubic feet while the 0 of ot head casing-head gas alone was I Estimated JJ at feet In that year rear It seems probable that Om irom third one-third to one half of ot all the gas gae produced is wasted the bureaus bureau's f study showed Production of at gasoline from natural K s was started in 1901 and while the amount recovered was waR Increased by leaps and bounds yearly Jearly it was estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that since that year at least J gallons of ot gasoline have been wasted or twice the amount re- re More than gal gallons gal gal- al In tons lons the of r Hewitt gasoline e must field d have In o Oklahoma been go lost lostIn lone one during this time From 20 oooo to gallons were lost lostIn lostin In hi the Eldorado field Emulsions with water cause another an an- other great loss Iou Engineers estimate Uie e production of cut oil In the mid mid- and gulf gult coast fields and Md 1921 at about T barrels barrels while halt of ot this was lost at an es esat estimated estimated es- es at d waste of ot