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1 Oil-impregnated rocks of Utah: USERDA field experiment to recover oil from tar sand1976-07oil-impregnated rocks; Utah; USERDA; field experiment; recover oil from tar sand; oil recoveryThe Laramie Energy Research Center, of the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration, is equipping a field experiment to test the reverse combustion process for recovery of oil from a tar sand on a 10-acre site on the Northwest Asphalt Ridge deposit near Vernal, Utah. A tar sand section 1...
2 The effect of feed source in the hot water processing of Utah tar sand1979-02Tar sand; Utah; Bitumen; Hot water separation; Froth flotation; energy demandThe processing strategy for the effective separation of bitumen from low grade (< 10 weight percent bitumen) Utah tar sands by a hot water process differs significantly from that used for the processing of high grade (> 10 weight percent bitumen) Utah tar sands. Excellent separations (coefficient of...
3 Uinta Basin tar sand deposits1990Uinta Basin; Tar sand deposits; UtahThis 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...
4 Overburden map and thickness determinations, Sunnyside oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah1986Oil-impregnated sandstone; Sunnyside deposits; Carbon County; Duchesne County; UtahThis investigation into the overburden and oil-impregnated sandstone thicknesses within the Sunnyside deposits, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah is done under Contract No. YA-553-CT0-1059 between the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
5 Organic and pyritic sulfur determination in oil shale1983-03-01H2S; Pyritic sulfur; Oil shale; Kentucky; Ohio; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Oil shale deposits; SulfurSulfur forms in oil shale are defined according to their reduction rates to H2S in the presence of hydrogen-donor solvents. A linear increase in temperature with time is applied to a reaction system of oil shale and hydrogen-donor solvents. The different temperatures at which H2S is detected corresp...
6 Oil-impregnated sandstones of Raven Ridge, Vernal, Utah1972Oil-impregnated sandstone; Raven Ridge; Vernal, Utah; Uinta Basin; Utah; Colorado; Wasatch Formation; Green River Formation; Uinta FormationThe area of this report is in the northeastern part of the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. The area covers approximately 52 square miles of what is regionally called Raven Ridge. Raven Ridge, a series of hogback ridges, trends northwest-southeast, and includes three Eocen...
7 Oil impregnated carbonate rocks of the Timpoweap Member Moenkopi Formation, Hurricane Cliffs area, Utah and Arizona1979Oil impregnated rocks; Hurricane Cliffs; Utah; Arizona; Timpoweap Member; Triassic Moenkopi Formation; Timpoweap Canyon; Hurricane, UtahOil impregnated rocks crop out at several localities near the Hurricane Cliffs in southwestern Utah and adjacent Arizona. The most significant petroliferous deposits occur in the Timpoweap Member of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation in Timpoweap Canyon and the Hurricane Cliffs south of Hurricane, Utah...
8 Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves1996Naval Petroleum Reserve; Oil shale reserves; California; Wyoming; Utah; Colorado; Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976; Annual Report; 1996 fiscal yearDuring 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...
9 Mineralogy of oil shale in the upper part of Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation in the Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah1976Parachute Creek; Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Utah; X-ray diffraction; Oil shale; Curly bed; Wavy bed tuffs; Mahogany zone; Naval Oil Shale Reserve No. 2; Federal Prototype Oil Shale Leas Tract Ua; Smectite; MineralogyThe relative abundance and distribution of major and minor minerals have been determined by X-ray diffraction for samples of Green River Formation oil shale in three drill cores from the eastern part of the Uinta Basin, Utah. The samples in each core are from the same rock stratigraphic interval bet...
10 Conjunctive surface and groundwater management in Utah: Implications for oil shale and oil sands development2011-12-31Unconventional fuel development; Conjunctive water use; Surface water; Groundwater; Utah; Utah water law; Oil shale; Oil sandsUnconventional fuel development will require scarce water resources. In an environment characterized by scarcity, and where most water resources are fully allocated, prospective development will require minimizing water use and seeking to use water resources in the most efficient manner. Conjunctive...
11 Core-based integrated sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and geochemical analysis of the oil shale bearing Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah2011-04Utah; Green River Formation; Lake Uinta; Mahogany zone; Lake evolution; Oil shale development; Uinta BasinAn integrated detailed sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and geochemical study of Utah's Green River Formation has found that Lake Uinta evolved in three phases 1) a freshwater rising lake phase below the Mahogany zone, 2) an anoxic deep lake phase above the base of the Mahogany zone and 3) a hypersali...
12 Clean and secure energy from Utah's oil shale and oil sands resources: Environmental, legal and policy framework2010-04-28ICSE; Land use; Water availability; Produced water; Utah; Colorado; Colorado RiverThis poster addresses major challenges to land use, water availability, and produced water.
13 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: January 1, 2010 to March 31, 20102010-05-13ICSE; University of Utah; CO2 capture; Mahogany zone; Green River Formation; Utah; Uinta Basin; Oil sands; Crude oil refining; International Flame Research Foundation; Liquid fuel production; In-situ thermal treatment; Oil shale; PyrolysisThe Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources program is part of the research agenda of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) at the University of Utah. In this quarter, the Clean and Secure Energy program continued its focus on enhancing industrial, national...
14 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: January 2011 to March 20112011-04-01ICSE; Oil shale; Oil sands; University of Utah; Utah; Oxy-gas; Kerogen; X-ray fluorescence analysis; Thermogravimetric analyzer; TGA; Lattice Boltzmann simulation; Flameless oxy-gas process heaters; CO2 capture; American Shale Oil; AMSO; Greenhouse gas emissions; GHGThe Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources program is part of the research agenda of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) at the University of Utah. In this quarter, the Clean and Secure Energy program held a Project Review meeting on the University of Ut...
15 APPENDIX C - In-situ production of Utah oil sands - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 20092009-10Utah; Uinta Basin; Oil sand reservoirs; Whiterocks; Sunnyside; Oil; Oil extraction; In-situ; Heavy oil production; BitumenTwo oil sand reservoirs located in Utah's Uinta Basin were considered for analysis: Whiterocks, a small, steeply dipping, contained reservoir containing about 100 million barrels, and Sunnyside, a giant reservoir containing over four billion barrels of oil in place. Cyclic steam stimulation, steam a...
16 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, 20092009-10Oil shale; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Green River Formation; Environmental; Legal; Socioeconomic; Policy Issues; Oil shale deposits; BLM; Bureau of Land ManagementThe 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...
17 APPENDIX B - Depositional heterogeneity and fluid flow modeling of the oil shale interval of the upper Green River Formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Utah - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 20092009-10Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Utah; Uintah County; Oil shale; DepositionIn this project, a detailed geological analysis was performed followed by a reservoir modeling exercise. For the geological analysis, ~300 m of cores were correlated to gamma and density logs in well P4 in the lower to middle Eocene (49.5-48.0 million years ago (Ma)), upper Green River Formation of ...
18 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: April 2013 to June 20132013Quarterly Progress Report; April 2013 to June 2013; DE-FE0001243; Oil Shale; Oil Sands; CO2 management; Uinta Basin; Greenhouse gas; GHG emissions; oxyfiring; Utah; WTP; Ex situ; In situThe Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources program, part of the research agenda of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) at the University of Utah, is focused on engineering, scientific, and legal research surrounding the development of these resources in ...
19 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: July 2013 to September 20132013Quarterly progress report; July 2013 to September 2013; DE-FE0001243; CO2 management; oxyfiring; CO2 capture; Unconventional fuels; Uinta Basin; Utah; Oil shale; Oil sands; Greenhouse gas control; NER; NEER; GHG; In situ; Ex situDisclaimer: "This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for th...
20 Characterization of Pyrolysis Products from a Utah Green River Oil Shale by 13C NMR, GC/MS, and FTIR2013-10-14Pyrolysis; Utah; Green River; Oil Shale; GC/MS; FTIR; 33rd Oil Shale Symposium; Kerogen; Oil shale kerogen; 13C; NMR; TGA
21 Air quality in the Uintah Basin2013-05-07ICSE; Unconventional fuels; Air quality; Air pollution; Uintah Basin; Ozone; Pollutant concentrations; Inversions; VOC; UtahPresentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013.
22 Assessment of unconventional fuels development costs2013-05-07ICSE; Unconventional fuels; Development cost; Oil Shale; In situ; Ex situ; Oil Sands; Utah; Uinta BasinPresentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013.
23 Lithologic logs and correlation of coreholes P. R. Spring and Hill Creek oil-impregnated standstone deposits Uintah County, Utah1975-08lithologic logs; correlation of coreholes; P. R. Spring; Hill Creek; oil-impregnated sandstone deposits; UtahThis report of investigation presents the lithologic logs and correlation of 16 coreholes drilled in 1973 in the P. R. Spring and Hill Creek oil-impregnated sandstone deposits, southeast Uintah County, Utah. The program was conducted under Grant No. GO 122094 from the U. S. Department of the Interio...
24 Assay products from Green River oil shale1986-02-18Pyrolysis stoichiometry; Green River; Oil shale; Oil; Mahogany zone; Colorado; Utah; Pairwise correlation coefficients; Pyrolysis; Elemental analyses of shales and oils; Organic carbon; Gas composition; Elemental composition; Oil shale grade; Raw shaleData from 66 material-balanced assays conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Laramie Energy Technology Center, and The Oil shale Corporation were compiled and analyzed to determine the pyrolysis stoichiometry for Green River formation oil shales originating in and near the Mahogany zon...
25 Current activity in oil production from U.S. tar sands1979-06-12Oil 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; KentuckyIn 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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