Getty: producing oil from diatomite
Abstract
Getty Oil Company has developed unconventional oil production techniques which will yield oil from diatomaceous earth. They propose to mine oil-saturated diatomite using open-pit mining methods. Getty's diatomite deposit in the McKittrick field of California is unique because it is cocoa brown and saturated with crude oil. It is classified also as a tightly packed deposit, and oil cannot be extracted by conventional oil field methods.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5393194
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Pacific Oil World; ()
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 74:10
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 02 PETROLEUM; CALIFORNIA; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; DIATOMACEOUS EARTH; SURFACE MINING; OIL SATURATION; PETROLEUM; SEPARATION PROCESSES; ENERGY SOURCES; FEDERAL REGION IX; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINING; NORTH AMERICA; RESOURCES; SATURATION; USA; 020300* - Petroleum- Drilling & Production
Citation Formats
Zublin, L. Getty: producing oil from diatomite. United States: N. p., 1981.
Web.
Zublin, L. Getty: producing oil from diatomite. United States.
Zublin, L. Thu .
"Getty: producing oil from diatomite". United States.
@article{osti_5393194,
title = {Getty: producing oil from diatomite},
author = {Zublin, L},
abstractNote = {Getty Oil Company has developed unconventional oil production techniques which will yield oil from diatomaceous earth. They propose to mine oil-saturated diatomite using open-pit mining methods. Getty's diatomite deposit in the McKittrick field of California is unique because it is cocoa brown and saturated with crude oil. It is classified also as a tightly packed deposit, and oil cannot be extracted by conventional oil field methods.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5393194},
journal = {Pacific Oil World; ()},
number = ,
volume = 74:10,
place = {United States},
year = {1981},
month = {10}
}
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