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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,...
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...
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,... -
THE TOSCO PROCESS ECONOMIC SENSITIVITY TO THE VARIABLES OF PRODUCTION
Cost projections for the production of oil shale encompass much more than evaluation of the retorting process to be employed. The analysis must consider all production aspects,... -
Hydrogenolysis of Colorado oil-shale kerogen
This report describes the procedure used by the US Bureau of Mines to degrade Colorado oil shale kerogen into hydrogenolysis products, the yields of the soluble fractions... -
WATER QUALITY IN THE OIL SHALE REGIONS OF COLORADO PICEANCE BASIN, RIO...
This report presents a study on water quality and toxicology of the Piceance basin. This is based upon a field reconnaissance of the area and a review of literature and... -
"PROCESS DESIGN: LETC NORTH SITE HORIZONTAL MODIFIED PILOT PLANT TRENCH RETORT"
"As part of an overall accelerated research concept for in situ extraction of oil shale, a general document entitled ""A Proposed Development Plan for a Horizontal Modified In... -
ANALYSIS OF OIL SHALE AND OIL SHALE PRODUCTS FOR CERTAIN MINOR ELEMENTS
In September of this year development plans for the commercial production of oil shale by in situ retorting were approved by the U.S. Department of Interior. The anticipated... -
SOME INNOVATIONS IN EQUIPMENT FOR SCALING HIGH ROOFS AND MINE WALLS
This paper describes the methods and equipment developed at the Bureau’s Experimental Oil-Shale mine near Rifle, Colo. for placing men in position to scale loone rock from the... -
EVALUATION OF THE POROSITY OF THE HANNA NO. 1 COAL SEAM
The purpose of this report is to describe the field tracer test and pumping test performed in July, 1983, at the Hanna, Wyoming, and coal gasification research area and to... -
Recent trends in oil shale. II. Mining and shale oil extraction processes....
In this article, we discuss technical aspects of oil shale mining and describe a few of the many processes available for extracting hydrocarbon fuels by thermal treatment of oil... -
Environmental implications of synfuel development
The synthetic fuel industry is perhaps the only industry ever to be subjected to a nationwide review of potential environmental consequences before the first commercial scale... -
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(a) Polar plot of shear wave travel time splittings for the VSP data at the Conoco site. (b) Polar plot of VSP polarizations (Queen and Rizer, 1990). -
Hanna, Wyoming Underground Coal Gasification Database. Volume 5: The Hanna...
This report is part of a seven-volume series on the Hanna, Wyoming, underground coal gasification on field tests. Volume 1 is a summary of the project and each of Volumes 2...