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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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Field guide to lacustrine and related nonmarine depositional environments in tertiary rocks, Uinta Basin, Utah | 1976-11 | lacustrine environments; nonmarine depositional environments; tertiary rocks | The lower part of the Tertiary System in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado (fig. 1) reflects a series of very complex and variable forms of continental sedimentation in a basin of internal drainage. These complex forms represent the disruption of the Cretaceous depositio... |
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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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P. R. spring oil-impregnated sandstone deposit Uintah and Grand Counties, Utah | 1970-02 | oil-impregnated sandstone beds; oil impregnation; oil shale; lenticular sandstones; siltstones | Oil-impregnated sandstone beds underlie at least 214 square miles in the southeastern Uinta Basin and may extend northward beneath cover. One to as many as five principal saturated zones, 3 to 75 feet thick, occur in a 250-foot interval that dips gently northward. The northernmost outcrops are overl... |
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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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Major tar sand deposits of Utah, United States: Recent field investigations | 1986-07-10 | tar sand deposits; field investigations; tar sand resource; resource evaluation | The results of field investigations at three major Utah tar sand deposits are presented along with representative core sections. A resource evaluation of the PR Spring deposit in the southeastern Uinta Basin includes stratigraphic cross sections and isopleth maps of significant reservoir engineering... |
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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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Geology of Circle Cliffs Anticline | 1954 | geology; Circle Cliffs Anticline; stratigraphy; physiography | Circle Cliffs anticline occupies an area, approximately fifteen miles wide, which extends in a northnorthwest direction from Kane County on the south through east-central Garfield County to the Wayne County line. Its axis lies approximately 25 miles east of Boulder, Utah. Hall's Creek, located at th... |
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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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Geologic evaluation and reservoir properties of the PR Spring tar sand deposit, Uintah and Grand counties, Utah | 1985-01 | reservoir properties; PR Spring tar sand deposit; tar sand | In 1980, the Laramie Energy Technology Center completed a seven corehole drilling program at the PR Spring tar sand deposit, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah. The data from this project were integrated with other resource information to complete lithologic correlations, to evaluate general reservoir p... |
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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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Gilsonite | 1961-06 | glisonite; bitumen; asphalt-based petroleum; glisonite ore | Glisonite 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 ... |
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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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Gilsonite and other bituminous resources of central Uintah County, Utah | 1963-01 | glisonite; bituminous resources; bituminous deposits; oil shale; tar sands; gas; oil; bituminous sandstones | Central Uintah County, located in northeastern Utah, lies in the Uinta Basin and is underlain by relatively undisturbed Tertiary lacustrine and fluviatile sediments. The area (shown in Figure 63) discussed in this chapter contains all of the known gilsonite veins in the western United States and is ... |
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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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Evaluation of the Utah oil sand resource | 1976-08 | oil sand deposits; Utah oil sand; oil sand resource; Tar Sand Triangle; P. R. Spring; Sunnyside deposits; hydrocarbons; surface mining of oil sands | The three largest oil sand deposits in Utah, namely, the Tar Sand Triangle, the P.R. Spring, and the Sunnyside deposits, have been studied to contribute data relative to the surface and insitu mining of these deposits and to recommend research that should be conducted to develop the Utah oil sand re... |
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Heavy oil prospect NW Asphalt Ridge Uintah County, Utah | 1975 | heavy oil; heavy oil prospect; NW Asphalt Ridge; thermal recovery project | A 150 million barrel accumulation of heavy oil (14° API) underlies an 1120 acre Tom Brown, Inc. tract located six miles west of Vernal, Utah. A recently completed six-well corehole project provided the data to delineate this major accumulation. The following combination of geological and engineerin... |
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Bibliography of oil-impregnated rock deposits of Utah | 1979-11 | | |
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Major tar sand and heavy oil deposits of the United States | 1985-07 | major tar sand; heavy oil deposits; heavy oil resources; tar sand resources; United States | This paper presents a current assessment of U.S. tar sand and heavy oil resources. It is based on an independent appraisal of all tar sand deposits with 100 million barrels in place or more and the construction of a heavy oil reservoir and data base of fields containing more than 20 million barrels ... |