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Oil shale environmental research and coordination. Progress report, 1981-1982
The purpose of this research program is two-fold: to conduct research on the environmental impacts of an oil shale industry and to develop strategies to mitigate these effects:... -
Low interfacial tension and miscibility studies for surfactant tertiary oil r...
Polymer addition to an aqueous surfactant solution causes phase separation when the solution is initially a single liquid crystalline phase or a dispersion of liquid crystal in... -
OIL YIELDS OF FRESH AND WEATHERED OIL SHALES OF INDIANA
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, such early researchers as Ashley and Reeves in their studies of eastern oil shales noted that weathered oil shales gave higher oil yields than... -
Laboratory analyses of oil shales for US Department of Energy, Laramie Energy...
Analytical tests were performed on six samples of raw oil shale, two identified as Eastern, two identified as Colorado and the remaining two as Utah. This report covers the... -
Review of toxicity studies performed on an underground coal gasification cond...
Three studies related to the toxicity of underground coal gasification (UCG) waters have bee conducted: (1) toxicity study of UCG water and its fractions as determined by the... -
SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF OIL MISTS FORMED BY CONDENSATION
Organic vapors generated by retorting a bed of oil shale undergo rapid cooling and condense as a mist and also on rock surfaces. Experiments were carried out simulating the... -
Coordinated study of the Devonian black shale in the Illinois Basin: Illinoi...
An evaluation of the resource potential of the Devonian shales, called the Eastern Gas Shales Project (EGSP) was begun. A study of the stratigraphy, structure, composition, and... -
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CO2 FLOOD UTILIZING ADVANCED RESERVOIR CHARACT...
The objectives of the Management/Evaluation Plan are: 1) clarify management structure, task responsibilities and schedules, and 2) to be used as a basis for judging the Project... -
Figures 2a & 2b
Fracture azimuth and in-situ stress data from well control. The maximum horizontal in-situ stress in the wells studied is interpreted as dominantly northeast in the shallow 2000... -
A RESEARCH APPROACH TO DEMONSTRATE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF SECOND ...
Shale oil is a leading contender as a synthetic fuel alternative to petroleum. Since 1815, U. S. oil shale development has gone through four boom-bust cycles that have been... -
Wavefront Construction: A Differential Geometry Approach
A ray travel time wavefront represents a mathematical object called a manifold. In particular, paraxial ray theory contains elements that predict the Gaussian curvature of the... -
IN SITU RETORTING OF OIL SHALE USING RF HEATING A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Field test work in Utah during 1980 proved that application of radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic heating will raise Green River Formation oil shale to retorting temperatures.... -
ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF OIL SHALE FACILITIES ON WATER QUALITY: CRITIQUE AND ...
For the current paper, the charge from the oil shale task force was to critique the Hicks and Probstein paper, emphasizing where we agree and where we disagree with the themes,... -
Replacement costs of domestic crude oil
"The United States has a rich base of petroleum resources, but replacing domestic oil reserves will be costly and will require advances in technology. In the mature onshore and... -
E&P Focus Vol. 1, No. 1
Department of Energy-funded ?microhole? technology could usher in a revolutionary new approach to the way America's oil and gas wells are drilled. The targeted result: greatly... -
Stratigraphy of the Early Eocene Pass Peak Formation, Central - Western Wyoming
Stratigraphic investigation of the Pass Peak Formation was carried out for a total of seven months in the field during the summers of 1965, 1966, and 1967 in order to provide... -
PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS FRONTIER FORMATION, NORTH...
The purpose of the work reported herein was to make a detailed Paleoenvironmental report of the Frontier Formulations in the northwestern part of the Bighorn Basin of... -
LEACHABILITY OF RETORTED OIL SHALE BY STRONG COMPLEXOMETRIC AGENTS
Extraction of solid waste materials with complexometric agents may offer a quick and effective method for assessing the potential long-term release of hazardous chemical... -
Modeling and optimizing surfactant structure to improve oil recovery by chemi...
The objectives of this research program are (1) to characterize mineral oxide surfaces and to relate these parameters to surfactant adsorption, (2) to study chromatographic... -
Development of the Bureau of Mines gas-combustion oil-shale retorting process
Results are presented from research and development carried out by the Bureau of Mines on the gas-combustion oil-shale retorting process. Effects of the process variables,...