creating the Monroe Gas Field on top of the uplift. This relatively
shallow gas field, approximately at four thousand feet, is the largest
gas field in Louisiana.
The Monroe Gas Field occupies most of the south half of the
image, but is especially visible west of the Ouachita River and the
Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge.
"The cleanup of the Monroe Gas Field will be the first step in
reducing the mercury contamination of soil and sediment which impacts
our rivers and lakes, says Marylee Orr, Executive director, Louisiana
Environmental
line runs from the Monroe Gas Field in the State of Louisiana through
the states of Arkansas and Mississippi to Memphis and other points in
the State of Tennessee.
Consider the Monroe gas field discovered in 1916. The field which
peaked at 630 million standard cubic feet per day in 1944 has
accumulated production of about 7.
The errant doomsayers for the Monroe gas field were not professionally
derelict; no doubt they made their pronouncements based on the best
information then available.
The main transmission line extends from the Monroe Gas Field in
Northeastern Louisiana
southward across Eastern Louisiana into Western Mississippi and then
back into
Louisiana to its
extends from the Monroe Gas Field in Northeastern Louisiana southward
across Eastern Louisiana into Western Mississippi and then back into
Louisiana to its terminus at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
sandy chalk that extensively produces in the Monroe Gas field in
northeastern Louisiana, but continues into southern Union County,
southern and eastern Ashley County, and northern Chicot County,
Arkansas.
discovered quickly thereafter, creating the Monroe Gas Field, which
has produced more than six trillion cubic feet of gas. Consequently,
oil and natural gas strikes began spreading throughout North
Louisiana.