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101 Brief history and recent developments in tar sand deposits of Uinta Basin1985Commercial production of oil from bituminous sandstones, more commonly referred to as "Tar sands", is considered by many to be a viable project. These so-called "heavy oil" deposits represent a very considerable reserve of oil for the future. The Uinta basin is Mother Nature's storehouse of exotic b...
102 Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area site specific analysis Sunnyside no. 6 tract: Moab District, Price River Resource Area1983-03Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area; site analysis; site specific analysis; Sunnyside no. 6 tract; STSA; tar sand extractionThe Sunnyside No. 6 Tract is in the south-central part of the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area (STSA) in Carbon County, Utah. The tract is located approximately 27 miles east of Price (See Maps 1 and 2 in Appendix I ) . The legal description and ownership are shown in Table 1.
103 Properties of Utah tar sands--North Seep Ridge area, P. R. Spring deposit1980-02-13P. R. Spring tar sand deposit; Seep Ridge area; tar sand zonesThis report presents results of analyses made at the Laramie Energy Research Center of three cores from an area at the northern end of Seep Ridge in the P.R. Spring tar sand deposit in northeastern Utah. Up to five tar sand zones have been identified in the north Seep Ridge area. These zones occur b...
104 The production of oil from Intermountain West tar sands deposits1976-03tar sand deposits; oil; tar sands; crude oil; hydrocarbons in tar sands; surface miningsSix 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...
105 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.
106 Canyonlands completion: negotiating the borders2009-08-20Canyonlands National ParkThink tank on Wallace Stegner and Western lands, Honors College, University of Utah, 2008-2009
107 Estimate of total, oil in place White Rocks Oil Properties Uintah county, Utah1961-12-09oil; petroleum recovery; heavy oil; tar; oil reserves; White Rocks Oil propertiesWestern Industries, Inc., is engaged in a project with the ultimate objective of recovering petroleum products from the "heavy oil" or "tar" bearing Navajo sandstone formation which is found at or near the surface on certain properties which they have acquired in Uintah County, Utah. Work on this pr...
108 Utah tar sands1984Utah tar sands; survey notes; asphalt; bitumen; tar; land slides; snow slides; petroleum; tar sand resourceThe 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...
109 Utah's tar sand resource: Geology, politics, and economics1976Utah tar sand; tar sand resource; geology; politics; economics; oil-impregnated rock deposits; oil shale; tar sandsTwelve of fifty deposits of oil-impregnated rock in Utah contain 98 percent of the 26 billion barrels estimated in place. This is about 90 to 95 percent of the total mapped U.S. resource. Several deposits have been and are mined for paving material. Extraction of oil from three deposits is beginning...
110 Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area site specific analysis Sunnyside no. 7 tract: Moab District, Price River Resource Area1983-03Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area; STSA; site specific analysis; Sunnyside no. 7 tract; site analysis; tar sand extractionThe Sunnyside No. 7 Tract is in the south-central part of the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area (STSA) in Carbon County, Utah. The tract is located 26 miles east of Price (see Maps 1 and 2 in Appendix I). The legal description and ownership are shown in Table 1.
111 The search for a source rock for the giant Tar Sand Triangle accumulation, southeastern Utah1999-03source rock; giant Tar Sand Triangle; southeastern Utah; oil resource; heavy oil and tar; oil; Tar Sand Triangle accumulation; thermal modelingA large proportion (about 36%) of the world's oil resource is contained in accumulations of heavy oil or tar. In these large deposits of degraded oil, the oil in place represents only a fraction of what was present at the time of accumulation. In many of these deposits, the source of the oil is unkn...
112 Bituminous sandstones in the Uinta Basin1964The largest single deposit of bituminous sandstones in the United States is found in the Uinta Basin. This deposit along with two other well known occurrences of bituminous sandstones in the northeastern portion of the basin have proved reserves exceeding 1% billion barrels of oil. The reserve calcu...
113 Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area site specific analysis Sunnyside no. 5 tract: Moab District, Price River Resource Area1983-03STSA; Sunnyside special tar sand area; site specific analysis; Sunnyside no. 5 tract; in situ tar sand extractionThe Sunnyside No. 5 Tract is in the east central part of the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area (STSA) in Carbon County, Utah. The tract is located about 30 miles east-northeast of Price (See Maps 1 and 2 in Appendix I). The legal description and ownership are shown in Table 1.
114 Recreation in Utah a profile of the demand for outdoor recreation by out-of-state travelers to Utah1967-12A 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...
115 Water availability for development of major tar sands areas in Utah1979-05water availability; major tar sands area; development of tar sands; tar sands deposits; water requirements; water availabilityThe Sutron Corporation, under contract with Colorado State University, has conducted a study for the Laramie Energy Technology Center (LETC) to determine the availability of water for future extraction of viscous petroleum (bitumen) from the six major tar sands deposits in Utah. Specifically the are...
116 The economic potential of domestic tar sands1982economical potential; domestic tar sands; Utah tar sand deposits; technical recovery potential; recovery estimates; net energy analysisThis report summarizes the analysis of the Utah tar sand deposits (see Exhibit 1) prepared for ERDA/Fossil Energy and the Laramie Energy Research Center. Background Like many oil producing countries, the United States contains considerable deposits of tar sands heavy petroleum (bitumen) that will no...
117 Green River Formation at Raven Ridge, Uintah County, Utah1965-07Green River formation; Raven Ridge; sandstone beds; shale; limestone; marlstone; oil-bearing strataAlong Raven Ridge in Uintah County, Utah, exposures of the Green River Formation contain a complex sequence of intertonguing beds of sandstone, shale, limestone, and marlstone. These strata are considered to represent deposition in an orderly sequence of environments from the flood plain through the...
118 Economic potential of state-owned lands in the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area Carbon County, Utah1985The 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...
119 Local issues for Utah oil sands2008-02-22Utah oil sands; tar sand history; Western U.S. oil sandsTar sand history in Uintah County.
120 An analysis of the tar sand deposit on the Rocky Mountain exploration company whiterocks federal lease Uintah County, Utah1982-11Rocky Mountain Exploration Company (hereafter called Rocky) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas, holds a 240-acre federal combined hydrocarbon lease in Sections 17 and 18, T 2 N, R 1 E, UE5SM, Uintah County, Utah. The lease lies in the Ashley National Forest. Road distance is 27 miles north ...
121 Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Salt Lake County: sub-county analysis2006-12Salt Lake County; Projections; Estimates; Aging population; Baby boom; Utah; Salt Lake Aging Services; Kennecott LandThis paper is an examination of the shifting geographic distribution of the population within Salt Lake County over time as well as an analysis of the spatial distribution of its demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. It builds on the county-level analysis included in a separate section of t...
122 Geology and petroleum resources of the major oil-impregnated sandstone deposits of Utah1979-08petroleum resources; oil-impregnated sandstone depositsNear surface, oil-impregnated rock deposits in Utah are estimated to contain as much as 29 billion barrels of petroleum. Over fifty individual deposits have been identified, primarily through field mapping. Over 96 percent of the oil in place occurs in sandstone host rocks in six giant deposits. Fou...
123 Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area site specific analysis Sunnyside no. 4 tract: Moab District, Price River Resource Area1983-03STSA; site specific analysis; Sunnyside no. 4 tract; tar sand extraction; surface miningThe Sunnyside No. 4 Tract is in the southwestern part of the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area (STSA) in Carbon County, Utah. The tract is located about 24 miles east of Price (See Maps 1 and 2 in Appendix I). The legal description and ownership are shown in Table 1.
124 Wild lands and wilderness - Implications for Utah's unconventional fuels industry2011-05-17unconventional fuels industry; order 3310; maintain wilderness resource inventories; BLM; FLPMA; land managementPresentation given at the 2011 Unconventional Fuels Conference.
125 The San Rafael oil fields; where the oil runs out of the rocks1975-09San Rafael oil fields; oil; oil fieldThe 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...
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