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Policy analysis of water availability and use issues for domestic oil shale and oil sands development: Topical Report: October 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 | 2010-03 | oil shale/sands resources; energy source; unconventional fuels; water demands; water availability; domestic oil shale/sands development; topical report | Oil shale and oil sands resources located within the intermountain west represent a vast, and as of yet, commercially untapped source of energy. Development will require water, and demand for scarce water resources stands at the front of a long list of barriers to commercialization. Water requiremen... |
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Utah oil shale permits directory | 1980-12-01 | oil shale permits; oil shale; oil shale deposit; Utah oil shale; permits | National attention is currently being focused on the Green River Formation oil shale deposit located in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The Uintah Basin of Northeastern Utah which overlies a portion of this oil shale deposit has been estimated to contain 50 billion barrels of recoverable shale oil. Thi... |
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Water for commercial oil shale development in Utah: Allocating scarce resources and the search for new sources of supply | 2010 | commercial oil shale development; allocating resources; oil shale; bitumen | BACKGROUND A. What Is Oil Shale and Why Do We Care? Oil shale is a sedimentary rock containing solid bituminous materials. When oil shale is heated, petroleum-like liquids and gasses are released. The process of heating shale and capturing resulting liquids and gasses is called retorting and can occ... |
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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). |
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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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Porosity of unconsolidated sand, diatomite, and fractured shale reservoirs, South Belridge and West Cat Canyon oil fields, California | 1987-11-02 | porosity; unconsolidated sand; diatomite; fractured shale reservoirs; South Belridge oil field; West Cat Canyon oil field | Porosity analysis based on conventional core samples, gamma-gamma logs, and borehole gravity (BHG) surveys is presented for a Pleistocene unconsolidated sand reservoir and for Miocene diatomaceous, porcelaneous, and fractured shale reservoirs of the Monterey Formation in the South Belridge oil field... |
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Research investigations in oil shale, tar sand, coal research, advanced exploratory process technology, and advanced fuels research: Volume 2--jointly sponsored research program | 1994-09 | oil shale; tar sand; coal research; advanced exporatory process technology; advanced fuels research; JSRP; Contained Recovery of Oily Wastes | This report summarizes the major research investigations conducted by the Western Research Institute (WRI) under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC21-86MCll076 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over the period October 1986 through September 1993. In 1989 a Jointly Sponsored Research Program (JSRP) w... |