Project Rio Blanco definition plan :
additional formation evaluation and production testing /
prepared by the Industrial Applications Division.

Description

Related Names

Project Plowshare (U.S.)
United States. Energy Research and Development Administration.

Language(s)

English

Published

Las Vegas, Nevada : United States, Energy Research and Development Administration, Nevada Operations Office, 1975.

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.

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-165."
"September 1975."

Physical Description

50 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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