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RECOVERY AND UPGRADING OF OIL FROM UTAH TAR SANDS SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, OCT....
The University of Utah tar sands research and development program has progressed well in its second year of the current three year contract. The program has advanced... -
Mercury mass distribution during laboratory and simulated in-situ oil-shale retorting
When Hg losses to the retort were minimized, 80 to 100% of the Hg originally present in the raw shale partitioned to the untreated offgas. Seven percent or less of the Hg... -
MICROWAVE SINTERING OF WC-Co BASED CEMENTED CARBIDES
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Chemical and engineering properties of Eastern oil shale. Final report
During the past few years mineral and oil companies have acquired mineral rights to oil shale in Kentucky. Research has also been initiated into the development of processes,... -
Explosively produced fracture of oil shale. Progress report, April 1977--March 1978
Characterization of wave propagation parameters for Green River Oil Shale is essentially complete, although much work is needed to define the fracture mechanisms adequately.... -
Improved Recovery from Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs Volume IV Final Report
Gas injection for attic oil recovery was modeled in vertical sandpacks to compare the process performance characteristics of three gases, namely methane, nitrogen, and flue gas.... -
PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS OF TAR SANDS--QUARTERLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 12/15/78
This period (9/15/78 to 12/15/78) to be reported on has emphasized the development of experimental techniques which will be employed in the physical property measurements. A... -
Oil research program implementation plan
The program described in the Oil Research Program Implementation Plan is a self-contained core research program whose goal is to maximize the economic producibility of the... -
Characteristics of petroleum from the Powder River Basin, Wyo. [Specific...
"Oil fields in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming have produced 731 million barrels of petroleum through 1959. Production in 1959 was 32 million barrels, the highest production... -
TORIS: An Integrated Decision Support System for Petroleum E&P Policy Evaluation
TORIS IS AN INTEGRATED SUITE of databases and analytical computer models focused on the U.S. oil resource. It is designed to facilitate the decision-making process integral to... -
RESULTS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF AN OIL SHALE RETORT HAVING A...
A commercial-size, hot-solids recycle retorting process, consisting of a staged fluidized-bed pyrolyzer and a lift-pipe combustor, was simulated using a previously developed... -
Oil Technology Program E&P Detailed Project Summaries
Oil and natural gas are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Together they account for more than 60 percent of the energy consumed in the United States, and oil accounts for 97... -
PICEANCE BASIN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN RECORD OF DECISION
This document records the decisions reached by the Bureau of Land Management for managing 530,109 surface acres of public land and 674,370 surface acres in the Piceance Basin... -
GAS HYDRATES, MICROBIAL EOR, AND TAR SANDS PROCESS ENGINEERING AND...
Methane hydrates, over the past decade, have received a great deal of attention as a vast energy resource, although yet to be exploited and production technologies developed for... -
Energy recovery from in situ coal gasification
"Estimates of the energy balance for the first underground coal-gasification experiment at Hanna, Wyoming, have been calculated for a 5t-month period from mid-September 1973... -
Coals and coal-bearing rocks of the Hanna Coal Field, Wyoming
Renewed interest in Wyoming's vast coal deposits began in the late 1960's as power plant demands for inexpensive, low sulfur coals increased. Because of this demand, Wyoming's... -
Underground Gasification for Steeply Dipping Coal Beds. Rawlins Test Number 2
The objectives of this test were to establish the feasibility of the UCG-SDB in US coals, and to develop economics for the process. -
Use of the finite element method to predict roof collapse and subsidence...
The plane strain two-dimensional finite element model employing the method of negative reaction loading was used to model roof collapse and subsidence that result from...