Year 
 Natural Quantity 
gasoline 
 — Value 
LP 
 
Quantity 
gases 
 
 Value 
Total 
 
Quantity 
Value 
1963                         
165,370 
$9,811 
395,877 
$15,481 
561,247 
$25,292 
1964                         
162,725 
8,713 
512,747 
18,121 
675,472 
26,834 
1965                         
153,485 
7,791 
587,416 
22,322 
740,901 
30,113 
1966                         
175,053 
9,399 
664,164 
25,902 
839,217 
35,301 
1967                         
194,173 
10,703 
665,057 
31,923 
859,230 
42,626 
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF KANSASduction of natural gas. In 1967, the Kansas
Corporation Commission listed 61 gaspurchasing firms in the State. Four of
these purchasers have underground storage facilities in Kansas for 103.4
billion cubic feet of natural gas, to be used during peak consumption periods.
Natural gas reserves declined 4 percent, to 15,283,657 million cubic feet,
comprising 5.2 percent of the Nation's ~as reserve. At yearend there were
8,603 producing gas wells located in 311 pools and fields. 
 To meet the increasing demand for natural gas due to continuing population
and industrial growth, Cities Service Gas Co. planned to increase its pipeline
capacity from the Kansas portion of the Hugoton gasfield by another 100 million
cubic feet per day. This will increase the annual production of 628.7 billion
cubic feet by 36.5 billion cubic feet, or about 6 percent. The added capacity
will permit an additional $5.5 million annual purchase of gas 
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at the wellhead, for delivery to the Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City areas.

 
 Natural Gas Liquids.—With 25 plants operating in the State in 1967,
Kansas ranked sixth in the Nation as a producer of natural gas liquids, supplying
4.0 percent of domestic output. Proved recoverable reserves of natural gas
liquids amounted to 272 million barrels as of December 31, 1967, according
to the Committee on Natural Gas Reserves of the American Gas Association.

 
Table 6—Marketed production of 
natural gas 
 
Year 
Million 
cubic feet 
Value 
(thousands) 
1963            
732,946 
$97,482 
1964            
764,073 
96,031 
1965            
793,379 
105,519 
1966            
1967            
847,495 
871,971 
114,412 
116,844 
Table 7.—Natural gas liquids production 
 
(Thousand gallons and thousand dollars) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A major expansion was scheduled for the Bushton, Kans., plant of Northern
Gas Products Co., a subsidiary of Northern Natural Gas Co. Because the expansion
will facilitate the extraction of ethane from the natural gas stream, the
Federal Power Commission has authorized Northern Natural Gas Co. to transport
an additional 62.4 million cubic feet of natural gas daily. 
 Cities Service Oil Co. was increasing production at its Hutchinson fractionatio~i
plant in Kansas. The work includes the expansion of the fractionation system,
improved product handling and storage, and the extension of the product-gathering
systems. The expansion will increase feedstream capacity to 40,000 barrels
per day. The company also completed a 69,000gallon-per-day gasoline plant
near Cheney. 
 
 Anadarko Production Co. added a depropanizer to its Interstate plant in
Morton County, and its propane capacity was in- 
creased 10,000 gallons per day. 
 Kansas, with 13.6 percent of the Nation's underground storage for LP gases,
can store 19.2 million barrels underground. 
 
 Petroleum-—Increased allowables have not checked the downward trend
of crude oil production in Kansas. Since it appears that this trend will
continue, predictions on future crude oil production in the State (table
9) are based on the following assumptions and calculations: 
 
 1. Known oil reserves in Kansas as of January 1, 1967, included 905 million
barrels of primary reserves, 745 million barrels of water injection reserves,
and 445 million barrels of reserves recoverable by other methods, for a total
of 2,095 million barrels of recoverable oil. 
 
 2. In the interval between January 1, 
1967, and January 1, 2,020 discoveries in Kansas will reach a minimum of
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