FIRST -- Gas Processing Plant West of the Mississippi River -- Glenpool OK - Oklahoma Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This marker is located next to a second OK Historic Marker at the intersection of the US 75 and W 141st street in the Tulsa suburb of Glenpool OK.

The marker text reads as follows:

The gas processing industry west of the Mississippi River had its beginning near here in 1909. At the D. W. Franchot & Company plant three miles west of this marker, liquid hydrocarbons were extracted from gas produced with oil in the surrounding Glenn Pool. This pool was discovered on November 22, 1905, and provided raw material for the first gas processing plant. By 1920, 315 plants had been built in Oklahoma.

Expansion of the gas processing industry grew out of conservation of liquids contained in natural gas. This natural gasoline, as it was called, initially was used to fuel the increasing numbers of automobiles. Residue gas was used to fuel oil field operations and was piped to nearby towns for heating and lighting.

With the rapid growth of gas processing in Oklahoma and surrounding oil states, gas processing became a major United States industry. By 1970, natural gas and the products of gas processing constituted 58 percent of the nation's total petroleum energy production. Oklahoma plants had processed 30 trillion cubic feet of gas and recovered 1.5 billion barrels of liquids by 1970.

Within a few years after gas processing had spread to Oklahoma, it spawned two other petroleum-related processing entities - the petrochemical and the LP-Gas or "bottled gas" industries.

Oklahoma Historical Society, with
Oklahoma Petroleum Council, 1972

County: Tulsa Record Address:: US 75 at W 141st St Glenpook, OK Web site if available: [Web Link] Rate the Site: Date Erected: 1972 Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Petroleum Council

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