Definition plan, alternate reentry and testing :
Project Rio Blanco /
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; Continental Oil Company.

Description

Related Names

Project Plowshare (U.S.)
Continental Oil Company
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Language(s)

English

Published

[Place of publication not identified] : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1974.

Subjects

Rio Blanco Oil Shale Project.
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.
Oil-shales.
Oil-shales > Oil-shales / Colorado > Oil-shales / Colorado / Piceance Creek Basin.
Oil-shales > Oil-shales / Colorado > Oil-shales / Colorado / Rio Blanco County.
Colorado > Colorado / Rio Blanco County.
Colorado > Colorado / Piceance Creek Basin.

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.
"NVO-145."
"May 1974."

Physical Description

90 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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