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DECISION CRITERIA FOR APPLICATION OF STEAM DRIVE TO U.S. TAR SANDS
The United States tar sand resource consists of an estimated 30 billion barrels of oil. Most of this resource is in six large deposits in Utah. A previous study of these areas... -
Report on preliminary results of aerosol measurements at the Rio Blanco...
Solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in the treated and untreated off-gas from the Rio Blanco Retort were sampled during a seven-day period beginning August 3, 1981.... -
Support research on chemical, mechanical, and environmental factors in...
This progress report covers research work performed at the University of Texas at Austin on evaluating chemical, mechanical, and environmental factors in underground... -
Effect of oxidation on carbonization yields of Texas lignite. [Oxidation of...
"A lignite from Milam County, Tex., has been oxidized by air at temperatures from about 27° to 300· C. for varying lengths of time. The oxidized coal was carbonized at 500· C.... -
Mechanisms Leading to Co-existence of Gas and Hydrate in Ocean Sediments
Project Final Report-DE-FC26-06NT43067-The mass of carbon held in sediments below the sea-floor is a significant element of the earth’s carbon cycle. The amount currently in... -
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF WIRELINE LOGGING FOR IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY WORKSHOP
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to actively pursue its goal of transferring to the petroleum industry critical information about technologies currently being... -
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SHALE OIL FROM MICROWAVE HEATING
"Shale oil and a fuel ,as have been produced by microwave heating oil shale in a standard microwave oven in conjunction with experimentation in development of an in situ... -
Morgantown Energy Technology Center Publications List, 1984
This Publications List includes the documents prepared by the Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) staff as well as their contractors during fiscal year 1984. The... -
Comparison of porphyrins from shale oil, oil shale, and petroleum by...
Mass and absorption spectroscopy were used to characterize porphyrins extracted by a hydrogen bromide-acetic acid solution from an oil shale, a shale oil, and a petroleum. The... -
REVIEW OF DOE REPORT "OIL SHALE PROJECT, EXTINGUISHMENT AND STABILIZATION...
"The Department of Energy (DOE) Anvil Points Experiment Station was established for the purpose of conducting demonstrations of the hot retorting process for the extraction of... -
High-Power Slim-Hole Drilling System
The objective of this project is to implement new high-power slim-hole motors and bits into field gas well drilling applications. Development of improved motors and bits is... -
CONTRACTS FOR FIELD PROJECTS AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH ON ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY 77
Various articles on enhanced oil recovery -
LASL FY 80 UCC PROGRAM PROPOSAL - MEETING IN 1979
"There are many areas of concern which have been identified in reports from 1976 (1) and before as critical to the development of useful UCC technology. Three of these areas... -
INTRINSIC KINETICS OF OXIDATION OF RESIDUAL ORGANIC CARBON IN RAPIDLY...
The intrinsic kinetics of reaction of oxygen with carbonaceous residue in rapidly pyrolyzed Colorado oil shale were determined by a series of isothermal fluidized-bed... -
Water requirements and uses in Wyoming mineral industries
This Bureau of Mines report primarily concerns water usage at Wyoming mineral industry operations. It also contains water-use data on operations closely related to mineral... -
GAS-COMBUSTION RETORTING PROCESS
In 1944, under the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act, the Bureau of Mines was directed to supply the scientific, engineering, and economic information required for the establishment of... -
AN OVERVIEW OF UNDERGROUND COAL GASIFICATION---A COMPARISION OF MODELING...
This paper describes the underground coal gasification (UCG) process and the anticipated uses of the UCG product gas. The history of the development of UCG and the potential... -
EVALUATION OF SHALE-OIL RESIDUUM PROCESSING METHODS, Planning and Evaluation...
"The Bureau of Mines has presented an industry-scale oil shale project report in which a 234,000 B/CD operation is designed and its cost estimated. Crushed oil shale is retorted... -
Western gas sands project status report
The Western Gas Sands Project Plan, Project Implementation Plans, Project Plan Document FY 78 and the Quarterly Basin Activities Report are in various stages of preparation.... -
Vortex Induced Vibration Study for Deep Draft Column Stabilized Floaters
A vortex induced motion (VIM) study to determine the sensitivity of the VIM response to the geometric parameters of deep draft semisubersibles, computational fluid dynamics...