Oil shale resource assessment for in situ retorting, Phase 1: Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado
It was decided that the resource potential could best be shown by delineating zones or areas that contained a given thickness of oil shale at various grades. Thicknesses in multiples of 400 ft were chosen for the assessment. Oil shale grades were contoured for specific thickness intervals. The study suggested that the Piceance Creek Basin has a large resource base, with physical dimensions and qualities amenable to in situ processing. A conservative estimate revealed some 384 billion barrels of oil in thickness intervals of greater than or equal to 400 ft and some 309 billion barrels in thicknesses of greater than or equal to 1600 ft. These calculations of the resource base may represent only a fraction of the total within the basin.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 5956338
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-52687
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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OIL SHALE DEPOSITS
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
PICEANCE CREEK BASIN
DATA COMPILATION
GEOLOGY
GRAPHS
IN-SITU RETORTING
TABLES
DATA
DATA FORMS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
IN-SITU PROCESSING
INFORMATION
NUMERICAL DATA
PROCESSING
RESOURCES
RETORTING
040100* - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Reserves & Exploration- (-1989)
040401 - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- In Situ Methods
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