Unlocking oil shale's energy. [Paraho Oil Shale Demonstration Plant, Riple, Colorado]
For as long as the people around Rifle, Colo., can remember, the rock that burns has ignited dreams of a boom in that oil shale country. Now the prospect of tapping oil shale to help satisfy man's growing energy demands burns brighter than ever. At the test site of the $7.5 million Paraho project, down the road from Rifle, dark, rich, refinable shale oil is flowing from 2 silver, cylindrical shale kilns operated by Paraho Oil Shale Demonstration, Inc. Sohio and 16 other energy-oriented companies are financing the Paraho experiments in W. Colorado. What they prove could pave the way for a full-scale commercial oil-shale plant in a desert area in Utah, some 75 miles to the northwest. Sohio's holdings in the area and the research that is taking place are described.
- OSTI ID:
- 5097332
- Journal Information:
- Sohioan; (United States), Journal Name: Sohioan; (United States) Vol. 46:4; ISSN SOHID
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COLORADO
COST
DECOMPOSITION
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
ENERGY SOURCES
FEDERAL REGION VIII
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
MATERIALS
NORTH AMERICA
OIL SHALE PROCESSING PLANTS
OIL SHALES
PARAHO PROCESS
RETORTING
USA