| Description |
The Utah Division of Oil & Gas Conservation, 1588 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, has received an application from the Sohio Petroleum Company to conduct mining operations for the removal and processing of the commercially minable deposits of bituminous sands on the following described lands on Asphalt Ridge in Uintah County, Utah: T. 5 S, R. 21 E, SLBM Sec. 36: Lots 1-8, Wh Eh, NW1/2, E1/2 SW1/2 which are State lands covered by State Oil, Gas and Hydrocarbon Lease ML 7920, in the name of Sohio Petroleum Co., and T. 5 S, R. 22 E, SLBM Sec. 31: NW1/4; SW1/4 which are Fee lands owned by Sohio Petroleum Co. The above application was noticed for hearing before the Board at 10:00 A.M., August 28, 1974, in the Courtroom, Uintah County Building, Vernal, Utah. The open-pit mining method will be used to extract the bituminous sands. Said material, which is primarily sandstone and oil-impregnated, will be processed in an extraction plant or plants on lands covered by the mining claim. The oil will be removed by solvent extraction and/or retort methods. The crude will then be stored at a central tank battery facility for subsequent transportation via trucks to the Utah-Arizona Fuels' refinery which is located west of the town of Roosevelt, Utah. The regolith and processed sands will eventually be returned to the mined out area, leveled and revegetated. |
