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Title: ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1915, No.3-4
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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ldadjoining Lake Erie. Undoubtedly the gas-bearing rock extends under the lake somedistance. The gas is found in dolomite of the Onondaga formation. Lambton Field During the summer of 1913 several w-ells were drilled in Enniskillen township atOil Springs, and gas discovered in moderate quantity, several hundred thousand cubicfeet capacity; but it was not until the Fairbanks well was drilled in March, 1914. anda well giving a larger flow of gas than any found hitherto in Ontario was disclosed,that the probable importance of this discovery was realized. The capacity when first drilled in was said to be 15.00\000 cubic feet, but sincethen it has proved a disappointment. Gas occurred at a depth of about 1,900 feet. Thelog of this well is given on page 8-5. ^^The information on natural gas has been obtained from the important paper byG. R. ;Mickle on The Chemical Composition of Natural Gas Pound in Ontario. Ont. Bur.Mines, Vol. XXIII., pp. 35-38 and 237-273. 2 BM (ll) Bureau of Mines No. 4
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1915 Oil and Gas in Ontario 15 Eli^rin Field This small, producing area was discovered in 1910 in Bayham township. A wellin the village of Vienna with a depth of 1,330 feet showed originally a pressure of 710lbs., which in 1914 had fallen to 350 lbs. The gas occurred in the Clinton. VVelland = Haldimand.Norfolk=Brant Field It is difficult to separate the areas in these counties. The first well was drilled inAugust, 1889, in Bertie township, Welland county, about two miles north of WellandNo. 2 shown on plan (Fig. 6). This well measured 1,700,000 cubic feet and was 836feet deep, gas being in White Medina sandstone. The pressure was 525 lbs. Thisinformation is taken from paper above quoted by Mr. Coste, which contains logs of anumber of wells in Welland county. Since that time the drilling has extended westward through Haldimand and Norfolk counties, and up into Brant and Wentworth.In general the gas-bearing rock does not extend back far from Lake Erie. Most of thegas is obtained from C

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