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Economic potential of the P.R. Spring oil-impregnated deposit, Uinta Basin, Grand and Uintah Counties, Utah (SS-65)
By: K. M. Clem The P.R. Spring oil-impregnated sandstone (tar sand) deposit is located in the southeastern portion of the Uinta Basin, approximately 50 miles northwest of Grand Junction, Colorado. These oil impregnated sandstones are in the Eocene Green River...
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Muddy Creek coal drilling project, Wasatch Plateau, Utah (SS-55)
By: A. D. Smith Twenty-seven drill holes successfully tested the Lower Blackhawk Formation coal zones and penetrated the Star Point Sandstone on the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah. Reserve calculations show a total in-place measured, indicated, and inferred tonnage of...
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Potential Oil-Prone Areas in the Cane Creek Shale Play, Paradox Basin, Utah, Identified By Epifluorescence Microscope Techniques (SS-160)
By: Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., David E. EbyThe Cane Creek shale of the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation has produced more than 7.8 million barrels of oil and about 7.9 billion cubic feet of gas from 18 fields in the Paradox Basin...
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Basin-wide evaluation of the uppermost Green River Formation's oil-shale resources, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, Uinta Basin (SS-128)
By: M. D. Vanden Berg Due to the recent increase in crude oil prices and concerns over diminishing conventional reserves, the Utah Geological Survey has reexamined the Uinta Basin’s oil-shale resource, primarily in the Mahogany zone of the Green River...
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The available coal resources for eight 7.5-minute quadrangles in the southern Emery Coalfield, Emery and Sevier Counties, Utah (SS-112)
By: J. C. Quick, D. E. Tabet, B. P. Hucka, and S. I. Wakefield About 2.4 billion tons of coal are available for mining in the southern Emery coalfield, Utah. This includes about 200 million tons of surface-minable coal and...
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Potential mineral precipitation and water compatibilities related to the Drunkards Wash project, Carbon County, Utah (RI-241)
By: J. W. Gwynn River Gas Corporation produces approximately 36,000 barrels per day of saline water from the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale as part of its Drunkards Wash coalbed-methane recovery project. Most of the sodium-bicarbonate-chloride produced water...
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Energy and mineral resource evaluation of School and Institutional Trust Lands in the southern Deep Creek Range, Juab County, Utah (RI-227)
By: R. W. Gloyn, D. A. Sprinkel, B. T. Tripp, and R. E. BlackettThe Utah State Division of School and Institutional Trust Lands asked the Utah Geological Survey to evaluate existing and potential geologic resources (metallic minerals, industrial rocks and...
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Characteristics of Utah coals in the University of Utah's Coal Sample Bank (RI-226)
By: S. N. Sommer, D. M. Bodily, and E. M. Whitney In 1986, the Utah Geological Survey and the University of Utah's Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering (formerly Department of Fuels Engineering) entered into a cooperative agreement to collect...
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The resinite resources of selected coal seams of the Book Cliff and Wasatch Plateau coalfields of central Utah (RI-225)
By: D. E. Tabet, B. P. Hucka, and S. N. Sommer Coal seams in the Wasatch Plateau and western Book Cliffs coal fields of Utah have high resinite contents. Resinite, or coal resin, is most abundant in the seams above...
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Mineral and energy resources in Kane County, Utah and their occurrence with respect to Wilderness Study Areas (RI-221)
By: R. E. Blackett, C. J. Brandt, T. C. Chidsey, Jr., and C. E. BishopThe Utah Department of Community and Economic Development enlisted the help of the UGS to review and report on the objectives and procedures for mineral resource...
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Coal quality characteristics of Utah's coal beds in and near potentially producible coal tracts (RI-219)
By: A. C. Keith The Utah Geological and Mineral Survey coal quality database includes over 1800 sample records. The quality information is the basis for this report on Utah's economic coal beds. The coal characterization data is intended to define...
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Overburden map and thickness determination, Sunnyside oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah (RI-210)
By: J. W. GwynnThe purposes of this investigation are to a) develop an overburden map for the Sunnyside oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, and b) make a determination of the thickness of the oil-impregnated sands within the deposit.The data base used in...
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Description, correlation, and summary of coal drill core TM-7, (Emery County) (RI-205)
By: S. N. Sommer and D. A. Foster There were three primary objectives of this study. The first was to describe and photograph a complete section through the Blackhawk Formation. The second was to examine the varying properties the coals...
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The Hill Creek oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, (Uintah County) (RI-201)
By: J. W. Gwynn The Hill Creek oil-impregnated sandstone deposit is located on the rugged, southern flank of the Uinta Basin, in Uintah County, Utah. It lies westward of the P.R. Springs oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, being separated by the Willow...
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Economic potential of state-owned lands in the Sunnyside Special Tar Sand Area, Carbon County, Utah (RI-196)
By: K. M. Clem The Sunnyside oil-impregnated (tar sand) deposit is located in the southwestern portion of the Uinta Basin, approximately 25 miles east of Price, Utah. The tar sands are located in the Wasatch Formation and in the Douglas...
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Reconnaissance study of the Black Dragon tar sand deposit T. 20-22 S., R. 12-13 E., San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah (RI-194)
By: B. T. Tripp The study area, on the east flank of the San Rafael Swell, Emery Co., Utah, contains parts of three tar-sand deposits. These are the Black Dragon, Cottonwood Draw, and Red Canyon deposits. They occur in an...
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Utah coal core methane desorption project, final report (OFR-88)
By: A. D. Smith The Utah Geological and Mineral Survey under a cooperative grant with the Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center has collected one hundred fifty two coal core samples for determination of methane content by the Direct...
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Well Database and Maps of Salt Cycles and Potash Zones of the Paradox Basin, Utah (OFR-600)
By: Terry W. Massoth Last year the Utah Geological Survey released a preliminary well database for Hite's 29 salt cycles of the Paradox Formation in the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah (Massoth and Tripp, 2011, OFR-581), which included stratigraphic data...
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Well database of salt cycles of the Paradox Basin, Utah (OFR-581)
By: T. W. Massoth and B. T. Tripp The Paradox Basin is a depositional basin that covers an area of about 12,000 square miles of southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, and which extends a short distance into northwestern New Mexico....
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Preliminary regional sequence stratigraphic framework and characterization of potential fluvial reservoirs of the Upper Mesverde Group, Uinta Basin, Utah (OFR-569)
By: J. L. Aschoff The Natural Buttes Gas Field, northeastern Utah, is one of the largest natural gas fields in the United States with more than 166 billion cubic feet of gas (BCFG) proved reserves. Natural gas production in the...
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Sunnyside tar sand deposit: data and references from industrial exploration projects (OFR-566)
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Sunnyside tar sand deposit: data and references from industrial exploration projects (OFR-566)
By: J. W. Gwynn The Sunnyside tar sand deposit, one of the largest in Utah, is located in Carbon County, about 25 to 30 miles east of Price, near Bruin Point on the Roan Cliffs. The majority of the bituminous...
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Strategies for in situ recovery of Utah's heavy oil and bitumen resources (OFR-551)
By: S. Schamel This extensive report on Utah’s heavy oil and bitumen resources, often referred to as tar sands, discusses both the surface and subsurface resources. The report discusses in detail the reservoir and fluid characteristics of Utah’s heavy oil...
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Reservoir characterization of clastic cycle sequences in the Paradox Formation of the Hermosa group, Paradox Basin, Utah (OFR-543)
By: B. D. Trudgill and W. C. Arbuckle This extensive report includes maps and correlations of the evaporite facies within the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation throughout the northern Paradox Basin. This includes correlation of individual evaporite cycles and their respective clastic...
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Hydrocarbon potential of Pennsylvanian black shale reservoirs, Paradox Basin, southeastern Utah (OFR-534 )
By: S. R. Bereskin and J. McLennan This report describes the gas potential of shales within the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation of the Paradox Basin, southeastern Utah. Core descriptions, thin section and scanning electron microscopy evaluations, X-ray diffraction, geochemical measurements (total...
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