Exploration for Oil and Gas in Western Kansas During 1941

During 1941 the oil and gas industries of Kansas went forward to new record heights. Of 2,113 wells drilled, 1,446 were oil wells and 76 were new gas wells. In western Kansas alone 1,186 new oil wells and 34 new gas wells were completed. Of the 286 wildcat wells drilled in western Kansas 25 percent were successful in finding new supplies of oil or gas. Of these, 147 were rank wildcats, located at least 2 miles from the nearest producing well, and among them only 16 percent were successful, showing a lack of success for this type of prospecting. There were 21,838 oil wells in Kansas at the end of 1941, and these had accounted for a total of no less than 83 million barrels of oil. The monthly pipeline runs increased from slightly over 6 million barrels in January to about 7 million barrels in December. During 1941 nearly 18 million more barrels of oil were produced than in 1940 and nearly 13 million more barrels than in the previous highest year, 1937. The Trapp pool in western Kansas ranks highest with a production of 72 million barrels during 1941. The Silica pool with 7 million barrels and the Bemis -Shutts pool with 4 million barrels follow. The Burnett pool and the Zenith pool also produced a large quantity of oil. In the matter of gas production, a new high record was attained in 1941when over 93 billion cubic feet were marketed. The bulk of this total came from the phenomenal gas pool in the southwestern part of the state. Exploration for new pools resulted in the discovery of 32 new oil pools and 6 new gas pools. The most sensational new oil pool is the Patterson pool, which lies many miles west of the present oil pools of western Kansas, in county. The five new pools in western Reno County probably will prove to constitute the largest new oil reserve discovered during the year

Design in the Age of Information: A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Information Age is upon us - it has become a global force in our everyday lives. But the promise of significant benefits from this revolution, which has been driven largely by technologists, will not be realized without more careful planning and design of information systems that can be integral to the simultaneously emerging user-cultures. In cultural terms, information systems must be effective, reliable, affordable, intuitively meaningful, and available anytime and everywhere. In this phase of the information revolution, design will be essential