Show it Task Task- bb For on n Project The country Is as rugged as any Ive I've seen Is the corn com comment ment of pipeline workers Jr In Inthe the primitive areas arens of the Uin talk tah Basin This ruggedness arid and mac Inac- Inaccessibility skyrockets the cost of oil and gas ex ex- exploration exploration and other facets of of th the mushrooming oil and gas IndustrY In this area Bulldozers have to be haul haul- hauled hauled ed up steep slopes and often workers are flown dally daily to their jobs ONE OF THE bigger pro pro- projects jests currently underway Is the Installing of the gathering that feeds gas from in- in inI in I wells Into the main 20 inch line This mlle mile 10 million line owned by Mountain Fuel Supply Co and laid by Pease Pense Dros Bros Co of Vernal has open open- opened ed cd a new vl vista tn of gas develop ment In hi the Uintah Basin It carries locally discovered gas gasto gasto to Clear Creek Creck Carbon Coun Coun- County ty and thence to the heavily heavily- populated areas of the Was Was- Wasatch atch Front Jim Adney of Vernal Is gasfield gas gasfield field superintendent TilE THE MASTER metering station Is located about 50 miles south of Vernal To reach It had to build a road and construct a bridge across the White River Into IntI this station about 35 million cubic feet of natural gas Is fed dally daily from a netS net network work of smaller lines that reach out to 47 wells The number of new producing wells under the stimulus of the new outlet Is continually Increasing The pipe laying crews num num- number bee ber about 20 men and main main- maintain Lain tain a camp In the field as they are about 96 90 miles from the nearest town THEIR JOn JOB IS to lay the feeder lines from the 10 inch laterals to the wells So far about 40 miles has been added to to the gathering system and workers are still going strong Except for the thc creek cross cross- crossings ings or or washes the pipe is left lefton wont won't be on an the surface and curled burld until the field has proven Itself The future how how- however ever ver looks very promising |