SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



"We must drill deeper and deeper," Dotterweich rea- 

 sons, "and as we do, these gas-condensate fields will 

 supply more and more of our distillates and natural gas. 

 In south Arkansas, Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast Plain, 

 they are now half of the new discoveries. Moreover, 

 cycling makes real savings. Naturally, best results obtain 

 with the active cooperation of all the property owners 

 in a given field. In the Cotton Valley of Louisiana, for 

 example, cycling started in 1941 after over one hundred 

 wells had been completed. Through fieldwide utiliza- 

 tion, forty wells are producing more than one hundred 

 did. That saves the cost of sixty wells and all their 

 gathering lines. It also assures that we will get every 

 last drop out of that field. Finally, the products of the 

 cycling plant are just what we want, the lighter, more 

 versatile hydrocarbons, perfect for making high-octane 

 gasoline or as chemical raw materials/* 



This is no empty boast. It is proved to the hilt at the 

 newborn town of Chemcel, Texas, southwest of Corpus 

 Christi, close to the very birthplace of the cycling opera- 

 tion, and a few miles from the college where this gas- 

 condensate prophet teaches chemistry. Here the Cel- 

 anese Chemical Company, offspring of the company 

 that makes the textile fiber, turns out a whole line of 

 chemicals belonging to the family of acetic acid, which 

 is the acid in vinegar. The enterprise is a neat demon- 

 stration of the rapid progress of chemistry. 



In grandfather's time the dyers used vinegar as a 

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