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Determination of oil shale potential Green River Formation, Uinta Basin northeast Utah | 1967-11-03 | | |
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P.R. Spring and Hill Creek Tar Sand Areas: A resource assessment (in progress) | 2008-02-22 | P. R. Spring; Hill Creek Tar Sand Areas; Uinta Basin; Green River; resource assessment | The P.R. Spring-Hill Creek Tar Sand Area is located at the southern flank of the Uinta Basin. The area is generally bounded by T. 12 S. in Uintah County, extending southward to T. 17 S. and the Roan Cliffs in Grand County. It is further bounded by the Green River on the west and the Utah-Colorado st... |
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Utah's oil-sand resources | 2006-09-21 | tar sands; tar sand; recoverable heavy oil; natural bitumen recovery; world wide tar sand resources. | Tar sands--a look around the world. Recovery factors and technically recoverable heavy oils and natural bitumens from around the globe. |
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Energy resources map of Utah (no. 68) | 1983-05 | Map 68; Utah; Energy Resources map; Gilsonite; Oil shale; Oil-impregnated rock; Geology; Oil and natural gas | |
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Economic potential of the P.R. Spring oil-impregnated deposit, Uinta Basin, Utah | 1984-08 | | The P.R. Spring oil-impregnated sandstone (tar sand) deposit is located in the southeastern portion of the Uinta Basin, approximately 50 miles northwest of Grand Junction, Colorado. These oil impregnated sandstones are in the Eocene Green River Formation and five zones have been identified. These zo... |
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Investigation of tar sand and heavy oil deposits of Utah for underground coal gasification applications | 1985-12 | tar sand; heavy oil deposits; underground coal gasification; UCG applications | A literature review was conducted to determine spatial and geological relationships between Utah's tar sand or heavy oil deposits and coal deposits and to evaluate these relationships in terms of suitability for underground coal gasification (UCG) applications. The investigation was undertaken as pa... |
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Instrumental analysis of tars and their correlations in oil-impregnated sandstone beds, Uintah and Grand Counties, Utah | 1971-10 | tar analysis; oil-impregnated sandstone beds; sandstone. | The Wasatch, Green River and Uinta formations, in ascending order make up the normal sequence of exposed Eocene rocks in the southeast Uinta Basin, Uintah and Grand counties, Utah. They dip northward towards the center of the basin, relatively undisturbed by faulting, and exhibit a system of promine... |
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Uinta Basin tar sand deposits | 1990 | Uinta Basin; Tar sand deposits; Utah | This report addresses an important need to the State of Utah; to define, tabulate, and document an economic resource which has aroused the interest of industry and academia and which is vastly undeveloped and little understood as to its potential. The need for this report has grown since the last ta... |
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Oil-impregnated rock deposits of Utah | 1974-07 | | |
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Geologic summary report of the 1981 exploration program, Sunnyside Tar Sands project, Carbon County, Utah | 1982-02-19 | Geologic summary; exploration project; Sunnyside Tar Sands project; delta complex. | The 1981 Sunnyside exploration program consisted of: (1) diamond drilling of sixteen drill holes and logging of the core, and (2) initial geologic mapping in the northern area to better define the limits of the tar sands associated with the Sunnyside delta complex. In order to comprehend the geometr... |
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Analysis of lacustrine deltaic sedimentation in the Green River Formation, southern Uinta Basin, Utah | 1991 | lacustrine deltaic sedimentation; Green River Formation; southern Uinta Basin; sedimentation analysis | Detailed lithofacies analysis of over 4,500 m of measured sections of most of the Eocene portion of the fluvial and lacustrine Green River Formation in the south-central Uinta Basin documents twelve lithofacies: Sa (nonsinuous trunk streams), Sb (meandering delta distributary channels), Sc (amalgama... |
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Economic potential of state-owned lands in the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area Carbon County, Utah | 1985 | | The Sunnyside oil-impregnated (tar sand) deposit is located in the southwestern portion of the Uinta Basin, approximately 25 miles east of Price, Utah (fig. 1). The tar sands are located in the Wasatch Formation and in the Douglas Creek Member of the Green River Formation, with up to 32 individual b... |
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Depositional setting and preliminary oil-shale resource potential, southwestern Uinta Basin, Utah | 1982 | Oil shale; Uinta Basin; Utah; Green River; Oil yield; Lake Uinta; Mohogany zone; Kerogen; Sheep Pass; Elko Basins; Nevada; Strawberry Structure; Strawberry Reservoir | This report characterizes the potential oil-shale resources underlying those lands west of the Green River in the southwestern Uinta Basin, Utah. The principal evaluation technique has been the calculation of oil yield from oil-well sonic and density log data available in this area. Subsurface corre... |
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Bibliography of tar sand deposits in Utah | 1987 | | |
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A brief history of early mineral exploitation in the Uinta Basin | 1964 | Uinta Basin; Mining; Uintah Valley; Indian Reservation; Meeker; Utah; History of early mineral exploitation; Uintah Reservation; Gilsonite; Coal; Copper; Iron; Oil shale; Ozocerite; Wurtzilite; Oil; Asphalt; Ashley Creek; Hatchtown; Vernal; Fort Duchesne; Ouray Subagency | Early mining activities in the Uinta Basin can be summarized by saying that they included mining for gilsonite, coal, copper, iron, oil shale, ozocerite, wurtzilite, and oil and asphalt (under the placer mining laws). Of these minerals only coal and gilsonite were produced in commercially significan... |
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Bibliography of oil-impregnated rock deposits of Utah | 1979-11 | | |
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Areawide and local effects of tar sands development at the Sunnyside site in Utah: A socioeconomic analysis | 1984-04 | | The Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-78) provides guidelines for converting federal oil and gas leases to combined hydrocarbon leases in Special Tar Sands Areas (STSAs). The STSAs are designated by the U.S. Department of the Interior as areas that contain substantial deposits ... |
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Assessment of research needs for oil recovery from heavy-oil sources and tar sands | 1982-03 | | The Fossil Energy Research Working Group (FERWG), at the request of J. W. Mares (Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy) and A. W. Trivelpiece (Director, Office of Energy Research), has reviewed and evaluated the U.S. programs on oil recovery from heavy oil sources and tar sands. These studies were p... |
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APPENDIX A - Analysis of environmental, legal, socioeconomic and policy issues critical to the development of commercial oil shale leasing on the public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming under the mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 2009 | 2009-10 | Oil shale; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Green River Formation; Environmental; Legal; Socioeconomic; Policy Issues; Oil shale deposits; BLM; Bureau of Land Management | The United States is home to the largest oil shale deposits in the world. This resource is located in the Green River Formation, spreading across the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Despite the vast potential of this resource, successful commercial development has yet to occur. To date, concer... |
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Digitized log file, API Number 4304732457 | 2009 | | This log was digitized by the Utah Geological Survey from image files (.tiff) compiled by the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining |
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Digitized log file, API Number 4305130001 | 2009 | | This log was digitized by the Utah Geological Survey from image files (.tiff) compiled by the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining |