1120 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941
  MARKETED PRODUCTION

 A new peak in marketed production of natural gas was attained in
1941—an estimated total of~ 2,770 billion cubic feet, 4 percent above
1940. Larger output from producing States was general, but Loui.siana apparently
made the greatest gam Production m Oklahoma declined slightly, and that of
Mississippi and of New York fell sharply' as available gas reserves continued
to shrink, lacking the stimulus of substantial new discoveries~
 Final 1940 data show expansioji of output in all producing States except
Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, and the "Other" group of small producers.
New York reached a sharp peak in gas produc— tion in 1938 and Mississippi
in 1939, followed by unusually abrupt declines..

Natural gas produced in the United States and delivered to consumers, 1988—40,
by
States, in millions of cubic feet
ear
Arkan.
ass
Call-
fornia
Cob-
rado
1111-
nols
mdi-
ana
Kan- Ken- Loulsi- ' Mich-
sas tucky ana Igan


Missis- Mon-
sippi tana



1986      
1937      
1988
1939
1940      
8,500
9,690
11301
10107
14,379
320,406
329,769
315168
348361
351,950
3,687
3,186
1904
2015
2,533
865
1,040
1169
2746
8,359
2,241
1,551
1299
791
1,137
69,178
83,890
75203
80556
90,003
43,903 290,151
55,719 315,301
46163283899
47771 294,370
53,056 343,191
7,167
9,080
10165
10726
12,648
11,821 23,003
13,348 24,765
1365621216
14527 23178
6,365 26,231


33,928
46,337
50706
00284
63,990
Year
N
y~
Ohio
Okia
horns
Penn-
sy1
Texas
West
~J
Value at points of consumption


w o~
rni3ig States Total Total

s~nds of Meubic
dollars) (cos)





1930      
1937      
1938      
1939      
1940      
12,~431
21~325
39,402
29,222
12,187
46,994
42,783
35,257
36,469
40,639
280,481
296,260
263, 164
250,875
257,626
110,362
115, 928
76, 547
93,882
90, 725
 734,561 138,076 29,322 725 2,167,802 854,561 149,084 31,023 2,980 2,407,620
882,473 134,342 26,678 5,850 2,295,562 979,427 159,226 26,614 5,609 2,476,756
1,063,538 188, 751 27,346 5,568 2,660,222




476,813
528,354
500,698
534,240
577,939
22.0
21.9
21.8
21.6
21.7

 The average value of natural gas at the wells, which has been falling steadily
for many years, reached a new low in 1940 at 4.5 cents per thousand cubic
feet. Contributing to this decline have been reduc— tions in average
sales prices for gas in the field in nearly all producing districts and—of
perhaps greater infiuence—the shift in location of the chief sources
of gas supply from the old eastern fields to the Southwest, where unit costs
of producing gas are much lower. Suggestive of these two processes are the
following data: In 1928 the Appalachian States as a group sold 22 percent
of the total marketed production of natural gas in the United States at an
average wellliead value of 2L1 cents per thousand cubic feet. The principal
southwestern gas— producing States marketed 57 percent of the total
for the United States at a corresponding average of 4.7 cents per thousand
cubic feet. In 1940 the same State groups marketed 15 and 68 percent, respectively,
of the total at average values at the wells of 14.8 and 2.1 cents per thousand
cubic feet.