More Gas for Syracuse

The rich Tioga County (Pa.) gas field has a possible flow of about 350 million cu. ft. daily, proven reserves of between 125 and 135 billion cu. ft. Until last week the competitive interests who owned the gas had found no adequate market. A pooling of interests is now under way to market some of the gas which will be carried in a 20-in. pipe now abuilding.

To form the marketing unit Standard Oil of New Jersey, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., and the private Benedum-Trees interests of Pittsburgh will throw their Tioga properties into a holding company called Lycoming United Natural Gas Corp. It is understood that Standard Oil will dominate the field by ownership of 50% of Lycoming United stock, followed by 30% for Columbia Gas, 20% for Benedum-Trees. The market Lycoming United will serve is the Syracuse area, active industrial district directly north of Tioga, where there is a potential annual demand for 10 billion cu. ft. (Buffalo, second biggest city in New York, has had natural gas service for several years from the Wayne-Dundee field in the western part of the State. New York City is still without any natural gas connections.)

Sponsors of Lycoming United were dickering last week for a contract with Mohawk Hudson Power Corp., subsidiary of Niagara Hudson Power, to bring Tioga gas to the Syracuse city limits. Here it would be mixed with manufactured gas before delivery. Natural gas has a higher heat value than manufactured gas but is often disliked by housewives as it carbonizes more quickly, clogs stove burners, dirties pots & pans.

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