History of Coastal Alabama Natural Gas Exploration and Development: Final Report

摘要

This study documents the development and growth of the natural gas industry211u001eoffshore Alabama. This report provides a full account of natural gas discover, 211u001eMobile Bay leasing, industry exploration, industry development projects and 211u001eproduction history. A gas production forecast is developed for the Mobile Bay 211u001eregion with and without proposed development of the Destin Dome OCS in the 211u001eEastern Gulf of Mexico. Coastal Alabama Norphlet and Miocene production will rise 211u001eto 1.4 BCFD by 2000. Destin Dome's production come online after Mobile Bay 211u001eproduction from discovered reserves reaches peak, thereby sustaining supplies to 211u001einterstate markets in the 1.4-1.6 BCFD through 2005. Combining both the Alabama 211u001estate and federal OCS offshore production, the Alabama-Destin Dome production 211u001eforecast reaches and sustains 1.6 BCFD between 2002-2004.