Primary oil-shale resources of the Green River Formation in the eastern Uinta Basin, Utah

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6220253· OSTI ID:6220253

Trudell, L G; Smith, J W; Beard, T N; Mason, G M

Resources of potential oil in place in the Green River Formation are measured and estimated for the primary oil-shale resource area east of the Green River in Utah's Uinta Basin. The area evaluated (Ts 7-14 S, Rs 19-25 E) includes most of, and certainly the best of Utah's oil-shale resource. For resource evaluation the principal oil-shale section is divided into ten stratigraphic units which are equivalent to units previously evaluated in the Piceance Creek Basin of Colorado. Detailed evaluation of individual oil-shale units sampled by cores, plus estimates by extrapolation into uncored areas indicate a total resource of 214 billion barrels of shale oil in place in the eastern Uinta Basin.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Laramie, WY (USA). Laramie Energy Technology Center
• OSTI ID: 6220253
• Report Number(s): DOE/LC/RI-82-4; ON: DE83009081
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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