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Show Q. After drilling and finding find-ing significant natural gas wells in our immediate Utah area,' why did the company drop many acres of leases and why haven't they produced pro-duced the gas? A. The significant gas may not be commercial, or economic to drill for and produce, based on depth, J production rates, recoverable recover-able gas in place, extent of the gas bearing formation, quality of the gas and other factors. Had these been positive, the company would not have dropped the leases. It would have drilled them. Natural gas wells, unlike oil wells, must be hooked to a pipeline before they can be produced. The wells in your area may be some distance dis-tance from a natural gas pipeline. Unless recoverable recover-able reserves are sufficient to justify the cost of building build-ing a line to connect them, the wells can't be produced. A rule of thumb is one billion bil-lion cubic feet of gas reserves res-erves for each mile of pipe-' line. Q. How many of our 50 states are gas or oil producing? pro-ducing? j A. Thirty three. The latest is Oregon, where natural na-tural gas was discovered this year,., |