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1 The asphalt and bituminous rock deposits of the United States: Part 1-Director's report and a paper on asphalt and bituminous rock deposits1901asphalt rock deposits; bitumous rock deposits; classification of hydrocarbons; bitumen; hydrocarbonsIn presenting the following account of the asphalt and bituminous rock deposits of the United States, the desire has been to afford a general conception of the nature of the materials discussed, their mode of occurrence, and the stratigraphy and structure of the attendant geology. The information pr...
2 Utah Economic and Business Review 7(1): Measures of Economic Changes in Utah 1847-19471947The Bureau of Economic and Business Research of the University of Utah, in the sixteen years of its existence, has had as its primary objective the accumulation of the factual material necessary for an understanding of the economy of Utah and the West. A number of special studies on various selected...
3 Gilsonite and related hydrocarbons of the Uinta Basin, Utah1949glisonite; hydrocarbons; Uinta Basin; kerogen; bitumenHydrocarbons are important in the present study for two reasons: ( 1) An understanding of their nature and origin may lead to a better understanding of the oil possibilities in the area. (2) From gilsonite, kerogen, and associated bituminous substances there may be fractionated many still-undiscover...
4 Utah's Economic Patterns1956The first edition of Utah's Economic Patterns, published in December 1953, was distributed to social science teachers in Utah's high schools and colleges and to leaders in education and business. From these leaders have come a number of suggestions for this revised edition. The purpose of this ...
5 Gilsonite1961-06glisonite; bitumen; asphalt-based petroleum; glisonite oreGlisonite is a black, pitch-like substance which occurs in pure form in large veins in the Tertiary sediments of the Uinta Basin. It is a homogenous petroleum substance (technically it is a predominently aromatic asphaltite) which fuses relatively easily and burns like tar. Glisonite is brittle and ...
6 Bituminous sandstone and limestone deposits of Utah1963The significant bituminous sandstone and bituminous Limestone deposits of Utah are located within, or on the edges of, the Uinta Basin. They are all located within the boundaries of Carbon, Duchesne, and Uintah Counties. The Sunnyside deposits in Carbon County contain the greatest reserves of bitumi...
7 Utah Economic and Business Review1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972In the opening month of 1968, the state's economy continued to move along the high income and employment plateaus, which it initially achieved last summer. Since the beginning of the copper strike, there has been little evidence of more than a horizontal movement in either of these two major indexes...
8 1969 Statistical Abstract of Utah1969This publication of the Statistical Abstract of Utah, 1969, is the fifth edition and commemorates the Utah Golden Spike Centennial. The first abstract was published in 1947 at the time of Utah's Centennial, and others were issued in 1954, 1960 and 1964. The purpose of the Abstract is to supplemen...
9 Review of the world's major oil sand deposits1974oil sand deposits; major oil sand deposits; oil reserves; non-conventional oil; oil sands; oil shale; coal; syncrude production; review; types of oil depositsThe solution of today's energy equation lies in crash programmes for the development of alternative fuels to supplement dwindling conventional oil reserves. Conse quently, sources of non-conventional oil such as oil sands, oil-shale and coal are being given greater consid eration. The production of ...
10 Oil shale and tar sands1976oil shale; tar sands; United States; alternative fuels; in situ processing; fractuing testsTo continue its growth or even its existence, the United States must find new energy supplies to replace the petroleum we are rapidly depleting. No fossil energy form can offer a long-range solution, but coal offers a mid-range solution. Unfortunately we're not geared to use it, and learning to appl...
11 1976 Statistical Abstract of Utah1976-01The Bureau of Economic and Business Research presents the seventh edition of the Statistical Abstract of Utah, 1976, the Bicentennial Edition. The basic goal of this document is to bring together under one cover the data most often requested in a readily available format. During an average year, g...
12 Prudhoe Bay--a 10 year perspective1980Prudhoe Bay field; U. S. oil field; geology summary; reservoir potential; petroleum explorationThe Prudhoe Bay field is recognized as the largest oil field in the United States. The Permian-Triassic reservoirs, estimated to contain reserves of 9.6 billion bbl of oil and 26 Tcf of gas, have overshadowed other known substantial accumulations of hydrocarbons in formations ranging in age from Mis...
13 Oil-impregnated sandstone deposits Circle Cliffs Uplift, Utah1981-04oil-impregnated sandstone; Utah deposits; Circle Cliffs Uplift; Triassic Moenkopi Formation; oil-impregnated sandstone resourceOne of the major oil-impregnated sandstone deposits in the United States is present on the Circle Cliffs uplift in an unnamed sandstone unit in the middle portion of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation. The deposit occurs on the west and east flanks of the uplift and is separated by an irregular barren ...
14 United States tar sands1982U.S. tar sands; tar sands; Interstate Oil Compact CommissionThe term 'Tar Sands' is a catch-all misnomer that includes asphaltic and oil-impregnated sandstones, siltstones, and other elastics and even limestones and other carbonates - but not "oil shales" or man-made paving material. A press agent might entitle this paper "OIL, the Overlooked Billions of Bar...
15 The oil resources in tar sand deposits in the United States1982oil resources; tar sand deposits; tar sand oil recovery processesThis report summarizes the data available at the Laramie Energy Technology Center. An effort was made to catalogue U.S. tar sand resources, identify U.S. and state maps showing tar sand deposits, and attempt to compare tar sand oil recovery processes. A review of the available data indicated there w...
16 The economic potential of domestic tar sands1982economical potential; domestic tar sands; Utah tar sand deposits; technical recovery potential; recovery estimates; net energy analysisThis report summarizes the analysis of the Utah tar sand deposits (see Exhibit 1) prepared for ERDA/Fossil Energy and the Laramie Energy Research Center. Background Like many oil producing countries, the United States contains considerable deposits of tar sands heavy petroleum (bitumen) that will no...
17 Technology of the recovery of values from tar sands1982-08recovery of values; tar sand; bitumen recovery; in situ processes; thermal recovery methods; COFCAW; combination of forward combustion and water flood process; emulsion-steam drive process; nuclear stimulation; mining; processing mined tar sands; anhydrous solvent extraction process; cold water sepa...There are two basic approaches to recovering bitumen. The tar sand may be mined and transported to a process plant where the bitumen is extracted and the sand is discharged. Alternatively the separation of bitumen from sand may be accomplished without ever moving the sand, that is, in situ. In situ ...
18 The TARCO process: For the surface extraction of tar sands1983types of tar sand extractions; tar sand; extracting tar sand; TARCO process; extracting solvent; bitumenOf the various types of tar sand extraction processes under development, solvent extraction offers many significant advantages; e.g., the technology already exists, simplicity, less dependence on grade and source of ore, etc. The TARCO solvent extraction plant, located in Homer, Kentucky, is probabl...
19 Utah Statistical Abstract 19831983The Bureau of Economic and Business Research presents the ninth edition of the Statistical Abstract of Utah, 1983. The basic goal of this document is to bring together the data most often requested in a readily available format. During an average year, hundreds of calls and personal visits are made...
20 The Whiterocks tar sand deposit1985Whiterocks tar sand deposit; tar sand; bitumen; tar-bearing Navajo SandstoneThe Whiterocks tar sand deposit is located near the mouth of Whiterocks Canyon, an important south drainage of the Uinta Mountains. This deposit is probably the least known and most unique of the major bitumen accumulations in the Uinta Basin. Historically, it is near the purported oldest white sett...
21 Depositional environments of oil shale in the Green River Formation, Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado and Utah1985depositional environments; oil shale; Green River Formation; Douglas Creek Arch; stratigraphyDouglas Creek arch in western Colorado and eastern Utah separates the Uinta and Piceance Creek basins. During deposition of the lower part of the Eocene Green River Formation, the arch provided a physical barrier dividing ancient Lake Uinta into two segments. As the lake expanded, the arch became a ...
22 Hypotheses of oil-shale genesis, Green River Formation, northeast Utah, northwest Colorado, and southwest Wyoming1985oil shale; Green River Formation; tar sandstoneIn the six decades or so of oil-shale studies on the Green River Formation (Paleocene/Eocene) in northeast Utah, northwest Colorado, and southwest Wyoming, two alternative hypotheses for the paleoenvironment have dominated the literature: (1) a stratified lake in which anaerobic conditions in the hy...
23 American gilsonite: Mining solid hydrocarbon1985Gilsonite, a soft asphaltite found in near-vertical veins over a large area around Bonanza, Utah (Fig. 1), is mined by American Gilsonite Co. (AGC) using air-powered chipping hammers instead of explosives and mechanical equipment. A vacuum air lift moves 100,000 st/yr of ore to the surface through b...
24 Upgrading of bitumen by hydropyrolysis -- A process for low coke and high syncrude yields1985-07bitumen; hydropyrolysis; low coke yeilds; high syncrude yeildsThe Department of Fuels Engineering at the University of Utah has been conducting research on the chemistry and engineering of hydropyrolysis for several years. It was previously observed (Ramakrishnan, 1978; Shabtai et al., 1979) that under certain reaction conditions hydrocarbon species undergo cr...
25 U.S. tar sand oil recovery projects--19851985-07-31U. S. tar sand; oil recovery projects; tar sand resource; in situ processesSince crude oil prices declined in the early 1980's, U.S. tar sand activities have declined to a level approximating that of the early 1970's. Twenty of the 43 reported projects are in California reservoirs containing bitumen with relatively low viscosities. Only four current or planned projects are...
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