Equity Oil Company Project Rio Blanco feasibility study :
Piceance Basin, Colo. /
CER Geonuclear.

Description

Corporate Author

CER Geonuclear

Related Names

Project Plowshare (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Language(s)

English

Published

Las Vegas, Nevada : CER Geonuclear Corporation, 1970.

Subjects

Rio Blanco Oil Shale Project.
Equity Oil Company.
Oil-shale industry > Oil-shale industry / Colorado > Oil-shale industry / Colorado / Rio Blanco County.
Underground nuclear explosions > Underground nuclear explosions / Colorado > Underground nuclear explosions / Colorado / Rio Blanco County.

Note

Project Rio Blanco is a joint experiment sponsored by the CER Geonuclear Corporation (CER) of Las Vegas, Nevada and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the Plowshare Program. Its purpose is to study the economic and technical feasibility of using multiple underground nuclear explosion to stimulate production of natural gas from deeply buried low productivity gas-bearing formations of the Piceance Basin in Northwestern Colorado.
"The prospects for nuclear explosion stimulation of gas production ... have been evaluated for Equity Oil Company."
"April 16, 1970."

Physical Description

120 pages : illustrations, tables, maps ; 28 cm

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