Kansas “Wind Gas” Well
The gas that would not burn — and the professor who extracted helium from a natural gas well in 1905.
Drilling for natural gas in May 1903, an exploratory well drilled by Gas, Oil and Developing Company found natural gas beneath William Greenwell’s farm near Dexter, Kansas. The discovery came as the company drilled into a geologic formation that produced “a howling gasser” that would not burn.
