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Show 153 There has been and tubular a steadUy increasing demand in the West, products fields have been discovered. service wells in recent years, In 1950 there in the eleven Western completed 7.9 per cent of the United States total. 55 and gas wells ing were In States. 56 in the se seventeen States), which oil and gas 3,438 oil, gas, dry and 1951, there were 15,690 oil in the Western States, and the six States border- com.pleted A total of new equipment, States, approximately the East, about three-fourths of the total on as for tools, 63,197,978 State's in 1951 approximate completions feet of oil and gas well (I, 692, in the United footage drilled was 552 feet in the eleven Western 78. 5 per cent of such footage drilled in the United States. 57 The use of the transmission of increased large part those pipe and tubing petroleum, petroleum products tremendously of these in recent years, pipe lines originate pipe lines for and natural gas, has and such demand centi.nue s , A in the eleven Western States and to the East. bordering The writer has of iron and steel an in the construction of pipe prepared and fittings an in estimate of the Western 1950, sinrllar to the earlier date, which is summarized in Table 31. 58 one consumption prepared An estimated at 459,421 ' 55 OPe The Stanford Research 56"Lack No. 3 Nrth th e Institute, Western Resources Handbook, cit., Section I-G. of Steel to Curtail (August, 1952), p. 54. . World Oil, Vol. 135, of the wells were in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas; whereas, only 2,124 were in Dakota, Oklahoma, eleven Western States Drilling Rates," 13,566 • 57Ibid. 58 See (June, 1944), Mahoney, OPe cit., p. "The Western Steel 55. Industry," Vol. 3, No.1, |
