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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 9.—Natural gas data 
 
 
(M 
illion cubic 
feet) 
 
 
 
Year 
W 
ithdrawals 1 
 — 
Marketed 
 
 
production 2 
Value 
 
 
at wells 
 
 
(thou- 
 
 
sands) 
Disposition 
 
Repres- Vented and 
suring wasted 
 
 
From 
gas wells 
From 
oil wells 
Total 
 
 
 
 
1963             
1964             
1965             
3,540,100 
3,682,200 
3,912,300 
710,000 
808,400 
852,000 
4,250,100 
4,490,600 
4,764,300 
3,928,427 
4,152,731 
4,466,786 
$777,829 
793,328 
812,955 
212,116 
221,280 
174,951 
109,557 
116,589 
122,563 
1966             
4,168,820 
1,196,457 
5,365,277 
5,081,435 
929,902 
182,734 
101,108 
1967             
5,070,825 
1,016,600 
6,087,425 
5,716,857 
1,057,619 
208,719 
161,849 
 1 Marketed production plus quantities used in repressuring~ vented, and
wasted. 
 2 Comprises gas sold or consumed by producers, including losses in transmission,
amounts added to storage, and increases in pipelines. 
Partly estimated. Includes direct waste on producing properties and residue
blown to the air. 
 
 United Gas Pipeline Co. continued developing a gas storage reservoir to
provide 104 billion cubic feet of storage in the old Bistineau gasfield of
Bienville and Bossier Parishes in northwestern Louisiana. The company planned
to store gas in the nearly depleted Pettet zone of the Sligo Formation. Gas
from the Gulf Coast district will be transported and stored during seasons
of low demand, and held ready for immediate distribution to meet winter's
peak demands. The project should be completed before the 1969—70 heating
season. South Louisiana Production Co. reported having 1.5 billion cubic
feet of natural gas storage at Holly field. De Soto Parish. 
 
 Natural Gas Liquids.—The 1967 production of natural gas liquids again
ranked second in the Nation, and was a new production record for Louisiana.
New plants and expansions completed in 1967 raised the State's daily processing
capacity from 14.3 to 16.1 billion cubic feet (23.8 percent of the Nation's
total capacity). 
 Natural gasoline and cycle products were recovered in 35 parishes at 112
gasoline plants, 16 recycling plants, and five frac 
tionators (107 gasoline, 16 recycling plants, and four fractionators in 1966).

 Recovery of natural gas liquids gained 19 percent and amounted to 17 percent
of the Nation's annual output. Production was 51 percent liquefied petroleum
(LP) gases and 49 percent natural gasoline and cycle products. 
 Humble Oil & Refining Co. was expanding its Garden City processing plant
to increase capacity by 350 million cubic feet per day (MMcfd). After completion,
maximum daily throughput of the plant will total 1.25 billion cubic feet
and recovery will be more than 20,000 barrels of liquid per day. Humble was
also building a 300-MMcfd plant at Lirette field, Terrebonne Parish, to ' be
completed about July 1968. Pan American Corp. constructed a refrigerated
absorption unit, designed to process 120 MMcfd and recover 1,928 barrels
of liquid per day, at South Pecan Lake field, Cameron Parish. The same company
began expansion of its Forked Island plant in Vermilion Parish, and at yearend
was processing about 85 MMcfd of gas from onshore and offshore fields. Upon
completion of the expansion, the throughput can be increased to 300 
 
Table 1O.—Natural gas liquids production 
(Thousand gallons and thousand dollars) 
Year 
Natural gasoline and 
cycle products 
LP gases 
 
Total 
 
 
Quantity Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
1963             
1964             
1965             
1966             
1967             
 1,143,707 $81,332 1,352,980 91,931 1,431,836 102,731 1,562,075 113,802 1,754,603
130,212 
1,113,670 
1,247,484 
1,300,038 
1,469,716 
1,844,689 
$41,043 
45,935 
46,101 
72,016 
92,234 
2,257,377 
2,600,464 
2,731,874 
3,031,791 
3,599,292 
$122,375 
137,866 
148,832 
185,818 
222,446