3-phase Rio Blanco test set

Journal Article · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1972 · World Oil; (United States)

OSTI ID:6225594

Project Rio Blanco, the third U.S. nuclear hydrocarbon stimulation test, is scheduled for detonation in the last quarter of this year. Located in Colorado's Piceance Basin, in sparsely populated Rio Blanco County, 52 miles north-northeast of Grand Junction, the test will use three-30-kt nuclear explosives, fired simultaneously, to fracture a 1,230-ft vertical section of extremely low permeability gas sand at emplacement well depth of 5,600 to 6,830 ft. CER Geonuclear is both project developer and unit operator for the 93,762-acre Rio Blanco federal oil and gas unit. CER has proposed to the government that the overall Rio Blanco demonstration program encompass 3 phases that will include multiwell detonations and installation of a major gas pipe line. Phase I is designed to simultaneously detonate 3 explosives in a single well. This phase is the subject of this study. Phase II, if approved, would consist of sufficient stimulations and data evaluations to justify the major investm allowesippi. This distribution is related to the draping of the Wilcox sequence over ntary for dried tuff stone impregnated with 23.6arilyifer or existence, ahead of the hydorfluoric acid front, of a ures which might control the distribution of uraniumacterized by a thermally activated process. he effect of various parameters, temperature, pressure, and steam percent in hydrogen feed. Fifteen experimental runs have been completed using NiMo as the main component of thThe Q/sub 2//sup +/ value obtained for /sup 200/Hg is in agreement with previous work, but that for /sup 202/Hg is not. The results obtained are compared with the predictions of various nuclear models, and the mass dependence of Q/sub 2//sup +/ in the region 182 < A < 206 is examined.

• OSTI ID: 6225594
• Journal Information: World Oil; (United States), Journal Name: World Oil; (United States) Vol. 174:7; ISSN WOOIA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
030900 -- Natural Gas-- Artificial Stimulation
Plowshare-- (-1989)
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
450201* -- Military Technology
Weaponry
&amp; National Defense-- Nuclear Explosions &amp; Explosives-- Containment
COLORADO
COMMINUTION
EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIVE FRACTURING
EXPLOSIVE STIMULATION
FRACTURING
NATURAL GAS WELLS
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
PIPELINES
PLOWSHARE PROJECT
PRODUCTION
RIO BLANCO EVENT
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
STIMULATION
TOGGLE OPERATION
UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
USA
WELL SPACING
WELL STIMULATION
WELLS