This quarterly basin activities report is a summation of three months drilling and testing activities in the Greater Green River Basin, Northern Great Plains Province, Piceance Basin, and Uinta Basin. Detailed information is given for each study area for the first quarter of 1979.

This report is a summation of three months drilling and testing activities in the four primary study areas of the WGSP: Greater Green River Basin, Northern Great Plains Province, Piceance Basin, and Uinta Basin. The core and the drilling programs are part of the resource assessment. (DLC)

This report summarizes November, 1979, progress of the government-sponsored projects directed toward increasing gas production from the low-permeability gas sands of the western United States. Coring was completed in the Pacific Transmission Supply Company No. 3-10A Federal well in the Greater Green River Basin, and in the Mapco Rio Blanco Unit No. 11-17F well, Uinta Basin. Projects of the National Laboratories and Energy Technology Centers progressed on schedule in November. Interruptions and shutdowns still plagued the Colorado Interstate Gas Company Miller No. 1 and Sprague No. 1 wells. Gas Producing Enterprises, Inc. Natural Buttes Unit wells continued to flow to sales. All testing has been completed at Mitchell Energy Corporation Muse-Duke No. 1 well.