Table 13.—Petroleum production 
 1963 3,962 $1,169 29.5 1963 1,679 $7,707 $4.59 
 1964 3,108 963 31.0 1964 1,874 8,321 4.44 
 1965 3,340 1,029 30.8 1965 1,632 7,246 4.44 
 1966 2,699 837 31.0 1966 1,735 7,925 4.57 
 1967 3,837 1,201 31.3 1967 1,972 9,026 4.58 
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF NEW YORK 
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Brooklyn Union Gas Co. had capacity for storing 175,000 barrels of liquid
natural gas above ground in Kings County, (Brooklyn). 
 
 Peat.—Sales of peat decreased 15 percent in quantity and 7 percent
in value from those in 1966. The value per ton increased to $10.06. The peat
was used mainly for general soil improvement, but some was used for potting
soils, in packing flowers and plants, etc. Orange County was the leading
producing area; output also reported from Cattaraugus, Westchester, and Seneca
Counties. Bulk shipments accounted 
 
Table 12.—Marketed production of natural gas 
(Million cubic feet and thousand dollars) 
 
Average 
value 
Year Quantity Value (cents per thousand 
cubic feet) 
for only 53 percent of production. Active operations involved 105 acreas
containing indicated reserves of 1.1 million tons. 
 
 Petroleum.—Production of crude oil increased 14 percent compared with
that of 1966. Wells in the Cattaraugus field, Cattaraugus County, yielded
65 percent of the total; the remainder came from the Allegany field in Ail~gany
and Steuben Counties, and the Busti pool in Chautauqua County. Average prices
for crude oil at the well head were $4.63 per barrel in Cattaraugus County,
and ranged from $4.35 to $4.53 in other areas. Proved reserves of crude oil
at yearend were 8.2 million barrels according to estimates of the American
Petroleum Institute. 
 
(Thousand 42-g 
allon barrels an 
d thousa 
nd dollars) 
Year 
Quantity 
Value 
Average 
 
value per 
 
barrel 
 
 
 
 
 
Table 14.—Oil and gas well drilling and total crew-weeks spent in geophysical
oil and gas 
prospecting in 1967 
 Drilling Geophysical  crew-weeks 
County Proved field wells  Exploratory  wells    Total Gravity Reflection
 —    Meter seismo Oil Gas Dry  Oil Gas Dry Wells Footage method graph
      method 
Allegany 46 6   1 53 76,117Broome    1  1 2,593Cattaraugus 51 2 4  5 62 92,473Cayuga
    2 2 7,836Chautauqua 56 3 1 2 4 66 49,400Erie  2    2 3,318Genesee  1
 1 2 4 10,322Livingston     1 1 1,687Ontario   1 1  2 3,438Orleans     5
5 12,940Oswego     1 1 2,550Seneca     1 1 4,152Steuben  2 1 2 2 7 29,912
4 3Wayne     4 4 15,093Ulster and Orange         2 
 Total 153 16 7 7 28 211 311,831 4 5 
Source: American Association of Petroleum Geologists and International Oil
Scouts Association.