Green River oil shale potential in Utah

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Publication Type report
Research Institute Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE)
Author Quigley, M. Darwin; Price, Jack R.
Title Green River oil shale potential in Utah
Date 1963-01
Description The Green River formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming contains the greatest potential reserves of oil in the world. The problem has been that of finding an economical method of extraction. The first economic study of the oil shale in Utah started in 1913 (Woodruff and Day, 1914). Since that time sporadic attempts have been made to establish oil shale as an economic source of liquid fuels. Much activity took place during the interval from 1914 to 1920. D. E. Winchester (1923) published a comprehensive account of the oil shale deposits and the efforts to exploit them. Immediately after Winchester's bulletin was published, the discovery of rich petroleum fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas flooded the market with abundant oil and dampened enthusiasm for further research on shale oil for a generation to come.
Type Text
Publisher Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey
Subject Green River oil shale; oil shale potential; oil shale; Green River formation; oil reserves; oil shale extraction
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Quigley, M. D.; Price, J. R. (1963). Green River oil shale potential in Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey. Bulletin; no. 54, paper no. 21.
Relation Has Part Bulletin; no. 54, paper no. 21
Rights Management (c)Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z92bjc