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Show F i . Qa sp &&. OdXBCSS? CXDQ)R!iraaOKD o Vol. 1 No. 34 October 20, 1969 IMDsasI Pans HD 25; per copy M DoomAs i MgoD soocsess released this week by the company shows gas is continuing to (low at high rates from the main Gasbuggy well FARMINGTON, of El Paso Natural Gas Co. aren't committing themselves yet, but indications are an underground Gasbuggy Farmington two years ago did stimulate natural gas production radioactivity of N.M.-Offici- uls nuclear explosion near and that the level of as scientists had hoped it would. El Paso officials say it probably will be some time next year before final experimental results are in from Project Gasbuggy, the underground detonation of a nuclear device SO miles east of Farmington in December, 1967. The blast was designed to determine if nuclear energy could be used to spur natural gas production. Data on gas production at the gas is steadily dropping. The nuclear device was detonated at the bottom of a well drilled in the Picture Cliffs formation. Scientists hoped the nuclear explosion would melt the rock and form an underground cavern they call a chimney. Gas would seep from surrounding formations into the chimney and then through the well to the surface. Production would be increased this way and a high gas flow obtained form a single well. seMeoataD emfleirs So GBoeGkso LOS ANGELES Occidental Petroleum Corp. is bidding to play an active role in exploration for oil and gas in Latin America. The company anticipates spudding the first of at least four wells late this year or early next year on a 7.5 million acre Caribbean block in which Signal Oil & Gas Co. Shares interest. Occidental will be the operator. The block touches Jamaica, Honduras and Nicaragua, with the bulk of the acreage offshore in shallow water. In Venezuelas Lake Maracaibo, Occidental is one of MgD various companies that is readily since the blocks 51 GooeiroeaQin) fl American Its research and engineering at the M.W. Kellogg. Co., New York City, as professor of fuels engineering in the University of Utah Department of Mineral engineering was aproved Monday by the U. of U. Institutional Council. The appointment is effective immediately. Dr. Oblad has also accepted a simultanious assignment as vice president of - coporate planning, XJi)G0lnl5ra luncheon meeting that the expansion will take place in two segments: 1. Crude-runnin- g capacity will be boosted from the 36,000 to 49,000 barrels a day by adding a tower with so-call- ed pre-flas- h associted facilities to present equipment. 2 posfts upHBFt tfooCses Appointment of Dr. Alex G. Oblad, vice president for eyes DffloDQoM understandable, lie south of fields producing Oil Co. some 2.5 million barrels daily. acknowledged the 60th year of The company also is part of a its - or its predecessors -group that participated in a operations in Utah by spelling seismic survey of the Gulf of out the details of a multi refinery expansion Venezuela, which some million-dolla- r geologists tab as the next Persian in Salt Lake City. Gulf on the basis of its Winston S. Peeler, Chicago, vice structures. president ofmanufacturing anticipated -a Venezuela may call for bids and transportation, told- feels Dr. Alex G. Oblad ' Fuels Engineering Expert area shows site of new catalytic cracking nnitr tt JSatifcrican Oil Os Large marked-of- f Smaller area shows refinerys crude unit Processing trill be lipped to 49,000 barrels have submitted bids for one or more of five blocks offered by the government. Blocks may be awarded by early December. Interest f IRECO Chemicals, Salt Lake petroleum, tar sand and natural City. A gas. enginnering, Dr. Oblad will form and direct a new Institute for Energy Research that will work in the areas of fuels engineering and metallurgy within the studies and recommendations nationally recognized authority in chemical department of mineral engineering. He will develop a research program for the kinetics of the catalytic conversion of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons produced form such energy sources as coal, shale oil, At IRECO he will assume direction and supervision of related corporate expansion and diversification. Dr. Oblad is a native of Utah and a graduate of the university. He was named to the university's national advisory council a year ago.' received his doctorate Purdue from University and has held research and administrative positions with such firms as He 2. A new 21,000-barrel-a-da- y catalytic cracking unit will be built, replacing a unit. It will achieve better results and improve air and water conservation measures, he said. Mr. Peeler said the cost of the expansion has not been pegged but certainly would exceed $10 million. 25-year-- Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Magnolia Itroleum Co., Texas Research Foundation and Houdry Process Corp. At the Kellog company D:. Oblad worked in the fields of process and engineering development and patents and licensing. He received the U. of U. Distinguished Alumni Award in 1962 and was awarded the American Chemical Societys E. V. Murphree Award in industrial and engineering chemistry last April. |