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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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The production of oil from Intermountain West tar sands deposits | 1976-03 | tar sand deposits; oil; tar sands; crude oil; hydrocarbons in tar sands; surface minings | Six tar sand deposits in the Intermountain West, each containing more than one billion barrels of oil in place, are identified. All of these deposits are in eastern Utah and contain a total of twenty-eight billion barrels of oil. The names of the six deposits arranged in descending order of desirabi... |
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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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The extraction of bitumen from western oil sands | 1994-03 | bitumen extraction; western oil sands; oil sands; final report; oil sand recovery technologies; environmental impacts; health and safety procedures | The information required for compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) has been documented in this section. This final report has been prepared to reflect the research and development activities performed under the cooperative agreement 89MC26268 between the University of Utah... |
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The extraction of bitumen from western oil sands | Oil Sand Research and Development program; oil sand; bitumen; PR Spring oil sand deposit; bitumen extraction | The information required for compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) has been documented in this section. This final report has been prepared to reflect the research and development activities performed under the cooperative agreement 89MC26268 between the University of Utah... | |
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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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Utah energy developments: A summary of existing and proposed activity 1981-1990 | 1981-06 | energy developments; Utah energy developments; Utah Energy Information System | This report on Energy Developments in Utah is designed to provide local, state, federal and private sector decision makers with current information on existing and planned energy developments in the State. Rather than focussing on the demand or supply for energy resources in the State, this report f... |
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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 ... |
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Utah tar sands | 1984 | Utah tar sands; survey notes; asphalt; bitumen; tar; land slides; snow slides; petroleum; tar sand resource | The words, tar, asphalt, bitumen, pitch, and heavy oil often have been used to refer to highly viscous liquid, semi-solid, or solid, naturally occurring hydrocarbon substances. The word bitumen originated with the Romans and included all the various types of natural hydrocarbons. In its modern, comm... |
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The asphalt and bituminous rock deposits of the United States: Part 1-Director's report and a paper on asphalt and bituminous rock deposits | 1901 | asphalt rock deposits; bitumous rock deposits; classification of hydrocarbons; bitumen; hydrocarbons | In 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... |
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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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Lithofacies and related hydrocarbon accumulations in Tertiary strata of the western and central Uinta Basin, Utah | 1975 | lithofacies; hydrocarbon accumulations; Tertiary strata; Uinta Basin; stratigraphy | Strata of Tertiary age in the Uinta Basin were deposited in an internally drained depression. They can be divided into (1) a central core of organic-rich open lacustrine claystone and mud-supported carbonate surrounded by (2) marginal lacustrine sandstone, claystone and mud- and grain-supported carb... |
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Canyonlands completion: negotiating the borders | 2009-08-20 | Canyonlands National Park | Think tank on Wallace Stegner and Western lands, Honors College, University of Utah, 2008-2009 |
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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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Geologic influences on the in situ processing of tar sand at the northwest Asphalt Ridge deposit, Utah | 1985-01 | in situ oil recovery field experiments; oil recovery; tar sand; in situ tar sand processing; Asphalt Ridge deposit | The Laramie Energy Technology Center, Department of Energy, completed three in situ oil recovery field experiments, two combustion and one steamflood, in tar sand at Northwest Asphalt Ridge, Utah. Inadequate resource and site characterization prior to the field experiments contributed to process des... |
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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 |