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Volume: 25 (1941)

Issue: 5. (May)

First Page: 947

Last Page: 948

Title: Effective Porosity of Gas Fields in Jackson County, Missouri: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Glenn G. Bartle

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

A study of four gas fields near Kansas City, Missouri, shows a production per acre varying between 400,000 and 2,000,000 cubic feet. Calculations of the space required

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for this gas in reference to the average thickness of the gas-producing sand would indicate that the effective porosity of these fields varies between seven and eighteen per cent.

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