Project Rio Blanco :
final report detonation related activities /
by CER Geonuclear Corporation; Continental Oil Company.

Description

Corporate Author

CER Geonuclear Corporation

Related Names

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

Language(s)

English

Published

Las Vegas, Nevada : CER Geonuclear Corporation, 1975.

Subjects

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

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.
"June 30, 1975."

Physical Description

95 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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