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Filters: Collection: "ir_eua" Year End: 1979
| Title | Date | Subject | Description | ||
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Recovery of bitumen from oil-impregnated sandstone deposits of Utah | 1976 | bitumen recovery; oil-impregnated sandstone deposits; fossil fuels; coal; oil shale; tar sands; Athabasca tar sands | Much attention is being given to fossil fuels such as coal, oil shale, and tar sands, as well as to nuclear, geothermal, wind, and solar energy sources. Characterization of the tar sands from the Uinta Basin is currently underway. Compared with bitumen presently being extracted commercially from Can... |
| 277 |
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Recovery of oil from Utah's tar sands | 1979-11-30 | oil recovery; Utah tar sands; hot water recovery; thermal processing; synthetic fuel | This project is designed to develop necessary engineering data and technology for recovery of oil from Utah's tar sands. Progress reports for four major aspects of this project, namely Hot Water Recovery, Energy Recovery in Thermal Processing, Effect of Variables in Thermal Processing and Bitumen Pr... |
| 278 |
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Recovery of petroleum from viscous asphaltic petroleum containing formations including tar sand deposits | 1977-08-16 | petroleum recovery; bitumen; tar sand deposits; patent; high asphaltic petroleum | Petroleum materials may be effectively recovered from subterranean, viscous, asphaltic or bituminous formations such as tar sand deposits by first injecting into the tar sand formation a paraffinic hydrocarbon at a temperature below 300.degree. F which precipitates asphaltic material from the asphal... |
| 279 |
 |
Recreation in Utah a profile of the demand for outdoor recreation by out-of-state travelers to Utah | 1967-12 | A recurring problem when planning for economic and industrial development is the lack of sufficient basic data on which sound planning decisions can be based. One of the industry areas in which this lack of basic data has been conspicuous is the area of the out-of-state visitors' demand for Utah's o... | |
| 280 |
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Recreation in Utah a profile of the demand for outdoor recreation by Utah residents | 1966-01 | Are recurring problem in planning for economic and industrial development is the lack of sufficient basic data upon which sound planning decisions may be made. One of the industry areas in which the lack of basic data for planning is conspicuous by its scarcity is outdoor recreation. Yet the outdoor... | |
| 281 |
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Report of investigation: Oil-impregnated rocks and other evidences of petroleum | 1974-09 | petroleum; oil-impregnated sandstone; oil seep | General geology: The surface geology is entirely Uinta Formation. Most rocks are thinly laminated, fine-grained lacustrine shales and cherts. Only a few sandstone units are present, which are predominantly fine-grained, well-cemented, and lacking in porosity and permeability. Regional dip is gently ... |
| 282 |
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Report of oil-impregnated sandstone in the Hoskinnini of the White Canyon area, Utah | 1974 | oil-impregnated sandstone; Hoskinnini | |
| 283 |
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Report on the development and implementation of the Utah process land use and tax base model | 1974-09 | The preparation of this report was financially aided through a Federal Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, under the Comprehensive Planning Assistance Pregram authorized by Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954, as amended. | |
| 284 |
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Report on the development of the Utah process: a procedure for planning coordination through forecasting and evaluating alternative state futures | 1972-09 | ||
| 285 |
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Report on the development of the Utah process: a procedure for planning coordination through forecasting and evaluating alternative state futures | 1972-09 | The Utah process development project was funded jointly by the four Corners Regional commission and the Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Department of Commerce. The request for proposal, delivered verbally by George Pantos, special Assistant to the Secretary for Regional economic coordinati... | |
| 286 |
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Report on the Utah rock Asphalt property, Sunnyside bituminous sandstone deposit, Carbon County, Utah | 1960-01-30 | Utah rock Asphalt property; Sunnyside deposit; bituminous sandstone; separation and utilization of biumen from sandstone | The bituminous sandstone deposits near Sunnysida, Utah, are the largest known deposits of this material in the United States. They offer the basis for a large scale operation designed to produce petroleum products and petro chemicals. The deposits are situated near the top of the Book Cliffs, a sout... |
| 287 |
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Report on Utah's second year of planning for the four corners regional commission | 1970-09 | scope of work contained in Article I set forth five specific program elements on which services were to be rendered. These were: 1. Continue to develop and refine criteria and evaluation procedures for assigning priorities to projects submitted for funding by the Four Corners Regional Commission.... | |
| 288 |
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Review of the world's major oil sand deposits | 1974 | oil sand deposits; major oil sand deposits; oil reserves; non-conventional oil; oil sands; oil shale; coal; syncrude production; review; types of oil deposits | The 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 ... |
| 289 |
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Road log no. 2 | 1963 | road log; geology of southwestern Utah | Road Log NO. 2 1.1 St. George, Utah, To Cedar City, Utah, Via Zion National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument (216.9 Miles). |
| 290 |
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Salient features of the bituminous sandstone occurrence near Sunnyside, Carbon County, Utah | 1963 | bituminous sandstone; Sunnyside | |
| 291 |
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Salt Lake area transportation study: volume I current travel inventory | 1963-11 | A major element of this study was the review of current travel patterns generated by the 394,000 residents of the Salt Lake area as determined from a 1960 comprehensive origin-destination survey which was conducted by the Department of Highways. Supplemental studies covered commercial vehicle m... | |
| 292 |
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The San Rafael oil fields; where the oil runs out of the rocks | 1975-09 | San Rafael oil fields; oil; oil field | The following article has been prepared and written with the object of furnishing accurate and dependable information of what is, perhaps, as little known a region as exists in this Twentieth Century. It is a country of wonderful possibilities and the writer after years of careful observation and ex... |
| 293 |
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Sedimentology of oil-impregnated, lacustrine and fluvial sandstone, P.R. Spring area, southeast Uinta Basin, Utah | 1970-08 | sedimentology; lacustrine and fluvial sandstone; P. R. Spring area; Oil-impregnated lacustrine and fluvial sandstone | Oil-impregnated intervals, up to 75 feet thick within a stratigraphic interval of about 250 feet in the Garden Gulch and Parachute Creek Members of the Green River Formation (Eocene), are exposed in beds that dip gently northward in the P. R. Spring area. Reserve estimates indicate that there may be... |
| 294 |
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Separation and cost analysis of recovering crude oils from bituminous sandstones near Roosevelt, Utah | 1967-10 | crude oil recovery; bitumous sandstones; separation analysis; cost analysis; shallow oil sand deposits; hot water flotation process | The recovery of crude oil from shallow oil sand deposits by means of hot water flotation process is now a reality, with possible production costs competitive with crude from oil wells, depending on the oil content of the sand. Consistent recovery of 95 to 97$ of the contained crude oils, with the po... |
| 295 |
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Separation and utilization studies of bitumens from bituminous sandstones of the Vernal and Sunnyside, Utah, deposits | 1952-05 | separation studies; utilization studies; bituminous sandstones; Vernal, Utah deposit; Sunnyside, Utah deposit; bitumen separation techniques; bitumen separation | In the search for possible future sources of petroleum products, the recovery and utilization of bitumens from the large outcropping deposits of bituminous sandstones in the United States have been under study by the Bureau of Mines for the past several years. The results of laboratory research in t... |
| 296 |
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Separation of bitumen from dry tar sands | 1978-10-17 | bitumen separation; bitumen recovery; dry tar sands | A process for the separation and recovery of bitumen from dry tar sands or sands with negligible quantities of connate water. The process includes comminuting the tar sands to an average particle size of approximately one centimeter in diameter and digesting the comminuted tar sand in a hot, aqueous... |
| 297 |
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Separation of solids from tar sands extract | 1978-06-13 | separations of solids; tar sands; tar sands extract; liquid promoter; patent | Solids are separated from a tar sands extract by gravity settling or centrifugation in the presence of a liquid promoter which promotes and enhances the separation of the solid material. The liquid promoter has a characterization factor of at least 9.75, a 5 volume percent distillation temperature o... |
| 298 |
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Signal oil and gas company summary: Test data, horizontal test wells #101, #102, #103, Sunnyside Area, Sec. 4, Twp. 14 S., R. 14 E., Carbon County, Utah | 1967-04 | gas company summary; test wells; horizontal test wells; tar sands | The objective of this project was to drill horizontal test wells into the Wasatch "tar sands" and test produce oil by application of steam. Complete records were to be maintained for an engineering evaluation of this test pilot operation. This project followed the drilling of a 1450 ft. core hole (v... |
| 299 |
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Solvent extraction of tar sand | 1979-02-13 | solvent extraction process; tar sand; bitumen recovery | An extraction process for recovering bitumens from tar sands in which the tar sand is mixed with a hot hydrocarbon solvent, for example, toluene, in order to evaporate substantially all the water contained in the tar sands. The tar sands-solvent mixture is then separated into two phases of fine and ... |
| 300 |
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Some possible applications of thermal recovery in Utah | 1965-11 | thermal recovery; applications of thermal recovery; oil reserves; bituminous sandstones; thermal project; bituminous oil sand | The bituminous sandstones of the Rocky Mountain region have significant reserves of oil. Production costs of the reserves must be reduced to be equal to or lower than the cost of crude oil produced by conventional methods. Three Utah deposits alone, Sunny side, Vernal (Asphalt Ridge) and Whiterocks ... |