Abstract
THE efforts of forty-seven authors working to an accepted plan have produced a most comprehensive geological account of the occurrence of natural gas on the North American Continent. The subject is one of increasing interest as more and more use is being made of natural gas both by industrial and domestic consumers. The potentialities for the future are immense, as is evidenced by the fact that the present combined daily open flow capacity of commercial gas wells in the important proved and producing areas exceeds 55 billion cubic feet per day, of which less than 10 per cent was consumed in 1933: there is still great waste of gas. The reservoirs for the future are thought to be infinitely greater, and there is said to be no known geological reason why the present levels of production cannot be maintained for many years.
Geology of Natural Gas
Edited by Henry A. Ley. Pp. xii + 1227. (Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Technologists; London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1935.) 6 dollars; 26s.
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A., E. Geology of Natural Gas. Nature 137, 3–4 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137003a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137003a0
