Unocal makes progress on start-up - but faces lawsuit
Unocal's Parachute Creek oil shale facility was successfully run several days at a stretch for the first time this summer. After a shutdown of several months for modifications to the spent shale shaft cooler system, startup attempts began again in May. A 60 hour run was completed in July and then a six day run. In late August, Unocal began taking applications for 50 new jobs at the plant. The plant is scheduled to come back onstream in November after a 4 to 6 week maintenance turnaround. Meanwhile several congressmen and the Friends of the Earth have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Unocal and the United States Treasury Department. The lawsuit attempts to void the agreement reached early this year between Unocal and the at-the-time disappearing United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC). That agreement changed $327 million of a $500 million price guarantee awarded to Unocal into a loan guarantee. The lawsuit charges that the agreement violated Congress' intent when they prohibited the SFC from issuing any new awards after December 19, 1985.
- OSTI ID:
- 5050104
- Journal Information:
- Pace Synth. Fuels Rep.; (United States), Journal Name: Pace Synth. Fuels Rep.; (United States) Vol. 23:3; ISSN PSFRD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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