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Utah sits on huge oil reserve
Springville Herald ^
| April 21, 2005
Posted on 04/21/2005 2:56:45 AM PDT by RWR8189
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posted on
04/21/2005 2:56:46 AM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
GO FOR IT!! USE THAT OIL! I certainly don't want to be dependant on other countries when we have so much oil to tap in here.....the resource is here, let's use it!
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:05:24 AM PDT
by
FeeinTennessee
(Political correctness: dragging us into a pit and making us weak)
To: RWR8189
Very interesting news. What is Congress waiting for? Drill!
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:07:42 AM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: RWR8189
You know Rush brought this up a month or so ago...the reason it hasn't been tapped up until now is that it is not cost effective to recover Oil Shale and Tar Sands until the price of oil is over $30 a barrel....now with $50 a barrel prices, things "SHOULD" move forward....but who knows what will finally trigger action on this...perhaps Orrin Hatch pushing it might get the ball rolling?
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:11:24 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society "( Robert Heinlien).)
To: RWR8189
"Why has Canada moved forward in leaps and bounds, while the United States has yet to take even a baby step in this direction?I think he knows the answer to that question.
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:13:54 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Advanced Directive -- don't step on my blue suede shoes.)
To: RWR8189
I have a gunny sack of this tar sand. It is very fine sand, like from a seashore. The amalgum is only slightly more juicy than road asphalt. A reverse solvent wash cleans it out of the sand quite easily and leaves a heavy tar.
To: RWR8189
Utah sits on huge oil reserve.....called the Public Lands and Parks of the U.S.A. in all states
/U.N.
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:17:09 AM PDT
by
maestro
To: Vaquero
The price of upgraded heavy oil from the Alberta Oil sands is $25.00 bbl in the pipe.
Alberta has been shipping 500,000 bbls per day into the US market for the last five years.
The oil sand projects in Wood Buffalo have been under development for fifteen years but it are virtually unknown in the US except for a few savvy Texas companies due to the ready availability of cheap Saudi sweet crude.
To develop similar resources in the US will probably take ten years with exploration and infrastructure costs factored in if you started today.
I still remember when Syncrude first started development, all the naysayers said it would never be economical.
To: RWR8189
This is an opportunity for the USA to stick it to radical Islam.
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:28:41 AM PDT
by
marvlus
To: FeeinTennessee
How long before tree-hugging Gaia worshippers begin screaming and howling about this?
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:34:55 AM PDT
by
Lindykim
(Courage is the first of all the virtues...if you haven*t courage, you may not have the opportunity)
To: All
Bah, $2 a gallon for gas isn't that expensive. Use the rest of the world's oil while it's cheap, then tap it.
:-)
To: RWR8189
"Who would have guessed that in just Colorado and Utah, there is more recoverable oil than in the Middle East?" FWIW, I think we should deplete the oil reserves from the Middle East before we tap into our stash.
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:41:17 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: RWR8189
Oil shale is a tad difficult to work with. There's a river of it about 10 miles wide extending from the Michigan border to the Ohio in Indiana.
It's also highly radioactive. (This is the stuff they used to make the now banned "black boards" out of).
That particular deposit could supply all our energy needs for many centuries.
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:48:50 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: M. Espinola
Hatch noted that Canada recognized the potential of the large tar sands deposits in the province of Alberta and developed a government policy to go promote their development -- increasing its oil reserves by more than a factor of 10.
M. Espinola
Very interesting news. What is Congress waiting for? Drill!
Wait a minute. I thought government was evil. I thought the government was your enemy. I thought it was going to take your children away from you to indoctrinate them in the ways of socialism to usher in the reign of the Antichrist. What is this now about calling the Government to intervene in the economy. This is scandalous! We are entering the end times! Yaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:52:38 AM PDT
by
Skylab
(Hi. My name is Tommy Grand from the TV show 'Cheaters'...)
To: Drew68
Sen. Hatch is a complete buffoon.
I was a cost engineer on the original Exxon/TOSCO Colony Shale Oil project in 1980-81. Since the 1920s, petroleum engineers have been saying that if the price of oil was just $20-$30 per barrel higher, shale oil conversion would be economical. In 1980-81, with Exxon and everybody else expecting the price of oil to go to $80-$100 per barrel, a huge project was started up in Western Colorado near Parachute Creek and Rifle (Grand Junction is the closest real town) to turn shale oil into crude.
There are a million reasons why the project failed, including but not limited to technical problems, cost overruns on an extremely large and complex project, uneconomical location (over 9,000 foot altitude in many places) and when shale oil is heated and pressurized to crack open the rock to release the crude the rock pops like popcorn and you end up with a lot more detritus than you started with.
The tar sands in Canada are so completely different from shale oil that it's laughable. Hatch is a buffoon and should keep his mouth shut - which is asking too much of a Senator, I realize.
"Better to keep your mouth shut and look like an idiot than open it and remove all doubt" . . . . . . .
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posted on
04/21/2005 3:58:08 AM PDT
by
Anarchus
To: Anarchus
"There are a million reasons why the project failed, including but not limited to technical problems, cost overruns on an extremely large and complex project, uneconomical location (over 9,000 foot altitude in many places) and when shale oil is heated and pressurized to crack open the rock to release the crude the rock pops like popcorn and you end up with a lot more detritus than you started with."
Hey after all that taxpayer dough dumped into his best friend Teddy's 'big dig' can't blame a guy for trying....
To: Skylab
"Wait a minute. I thought government was evil. I thought the government was your enemy. I thought it was going to take your children away from you to indoctrinate them in the ways of socialism to usher in the reign of the Antichrist. What is this now about calling the Government to intervene in the economy. This is scandalous! We are entering the end times! Yaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" After reading your comments I believe you have entered into your own end times.
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:07:09 AM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: M. Espinola
After reading your comments I believe you have entered into your own end times. Just illustrating absurdity with absurdity.
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:08:38 AM PDT
by
Skylab
(Hi. My name is Tommy Grand from the TV show 'Cheaters'...)
To: RWR8189
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:08:50 AM PDT
by
dennisw
("Sursum corda")
To: beaver fever
One backhanded advantage to this is that the Canadians have probably done a fair amount of developing the technology, so the US can benefit from that aspect of the oil sands development up there.
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:11:45 AM PDT
by
Meldrim
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