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Current activity in oil production from U.S. tar sands | 1979-06-12 | Oil Production; U.S. tar sands; UNITAR; Oil shale; Tar sands; Utah; Oil recovery; Heavy oil; Gas; Hydrocarbon material; Viscous crudes; Oil deposits; Texas; California; New Mexico; Kentucky | In a 1978 paper "Important for the Future" issued by UNITAR, reference was made to a quotation from a study by Resources for the Future, entitled "Energy in the American Economy: 1850-1975," by Messrs. Schurr and Netschert. The quotation is: "Relatively simple calculations of the volume of oil shale... |
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Downhole hydraulic mining system | 1985-07-31 | Oil-bearing sands; Oil field; Wellbore; Downhole hydraulic mining system; California; Utah; Kentucky; New Mexico; Canada; Venezuela; Oil; Deposits; Strip mining | The downhole hydraulic mining system is designed to exploit deposits of oil-bearing sands that are not economically producible using current oil field or mining technology. In most cases, the hydrocarbon in the reservoir is too viscous to flow into the wellbore naturally and applications of heat (st... |
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Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves | 1996 | Naval Petroleum Reserve; Oil shale reserves; California; Wyoming; Utah; Colorado; Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976; Annual Report; 1996 fiscal year | During fiscal year 1996, the Department of Energy continued to operate Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 in California and Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3 in Wyoming through its contractors. In addition, natural gas operations were conducted at Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3. All productive acreage owned b... |
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Surface tar-sand deposits in California | 1987 | surface tar-sand deposits; tar sand; surface tar sand; California; oil seeps; stratigraphy; tar sand deposit structure | Tar sand deposits and oil seeps have been known in California for more than a century and were used in the exploration for many of California's largest oil fields. Sixty deposits visited by this writer yielded 24 deposits totaling 5.27 billion barrels of oil in place and another 36 estimated at 1-2 ... |
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