Hugoton gas field
The Hugoton gas field is the largest gas field in the United States . It extends over 350 km to 16,000 km² over Kansas , Oklahoma and Texas . The gas is located in a stratigraphic trap made of Permian dolomite of the Krider Formation at a depth of 400–900 m. During the peak of production, more than 18 billion m³ of natural gas were produced each year.
The extracted gas is very rich in helium with 0.3% to 1.9% , which is separated. The average nitrogen content is 15%.
history
The deposit was discovered in 1922 near the city of Hugoton in Kansas. However, because no oil could be extracted, it was initially dismissed as unproductive. In 1927, in 790 m depth of the Independent Oil and Gas Company's Crawford No. 1 gas was discovered and production started a year later. In 1929 a pipeline was built to Dodge City .
The fracking process was first used in 1947 in the Hugoton field.
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter L. Pohl: Economic Geology: Principles and Practice . John Wiley and Sons, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4443-3662-7 , p. 550.
- ↑ a b Chris J. Ballentine, Barbara Sherwood Lollar: Regional groundwater focusing of nitrogen and noble gases into the Hugoton-Panhandle giant gas field, USA . In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . tape 66 , no. July 14 , 2002, p. 2483-2497 , doi : 10.1016 / s0016-7037 (02) 00850-5 ( PDF ).
- ↑ a b History of the gas field
- ↑ The History of Fracking ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
