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PAGE EIGHT EVERYWHERE THE SWING IS DEFINITELY 70 id Rr h SRN n 4 COOKING © OR DRYING CLOTHES |" Ky (7 1S BETTER EVERYONE KNOWS ! Thousands of homeowners are converting to Gas because only Gas gives you so much more for so much less . .. e Instant heating action e No storage problems, . no .delivery problems, no power failures ¢ Clean, dependable, safe eo Free 24-hour service eo Saves on fuel bills for a: lifetime Serving the PEOPLE in the Thriving Communities of Northern and Northwestern Ontario NORTHERN ONTARIO NATURAL GAS COMPANY LIMITED TWIN CITY GAS COMPANY LIMITED | ONTARIO TODAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 37 How Clean Gas Reaches You bring natural gas to users in Ontario hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent on laying pipelines from the Alberta 'natural gas field, This year Trans- Canada Pipe Lines and the North- ern Ontario Pipe Line Crown Cor- poration plan to spend an addi- tional $37,100,000 and employ 1,500 men, Next year plans call for a further expenditure of $48, 600,000, and in 1962 of $65,500,000, The expenditures in Ontario, while sizeable, are only a small portion of all the money being spent in Canada to bring natural gas to Canadian and now United States customers, Early in August the United States government sanc- tioned the importation of natural gas from western Canada to the western United States, and pipelines are now under construction from major Canadian cities southward, Because more gas will be needed to feed the increasing demand in Ontario and the rest of Canada, new wells are being sought in west- ern Canada. Some $200,000,000 is being invested by the gas industry in Alberta for drilling and equipping new wells. Natural gas is one of the oldest fuels known to man, The Chinese used it more than a thousand years ago for drying salt from sea water. It first was used in western Canada about 80 years ago, and in south- western Ontario was found in quan- tities large enough to use about 50 years ago. The comparatively recent deve- lopment of long-distance transmis- sion systems has brought natural gas to its present prominence in modern living, The natural gas does 'not flow directly from the well to the pipeline, and then to the con- sumer, Natural gas is found .in: deep wells usually associated with oil, + Drilling crews are finding new sup- pliers of natural gas at the rate of almost two and a half trillion cubic feet a year, This ensures a sufficient supply of the fuel for many years to come, It is estimated by the Na- tional Energy Board at Ottawa that with the drilling of some 400 wild- cat wells per year, the initial dis- posable reserves of 30 trillion cubic feet at the end of 1959 will increase to approximately 92 trillion cubie feet by 1989, Once the gas has been found the producing companies prepare it for delivery. A vast network of pipelines has been built from the various wells to main gathering points, from where the gas is piped to all parts of Canada. All the gas has to be "scrubbed" or cleaned before it is delivered to the pipeline, In some gas fields the scrubbing is done at relatively small dehydration plants. At other fields, the gas contains such varied by- 'products that costly processing + plants must be built, Here the pro- ducer removes sulphur, propane, butane, gasoline and petroleum before the natural gas is ready for its end use, The cleaned gas is metered and measured at the various fields and then piped to the main terminus at Burstall, Saskatchewan, just out- side the Alberta-Saskatchewan bors der, Here the gas enters the first of a chain of compressor stations built at cost of upwards of $3,500, 000 each, The compressor stations overcome the substantial drop in pressure which is inherent in long- distance gas transmission lines due to friction of the gas against the 'walls of the 34-inch pipe. Although the gas may leave the field under substantial pressure, without com. pressor stations it would barely, Compressor station at Port Arthur f