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Show Gary Operating Buys Grand Junction Rcffficy Gary Operating Co., Denver, which recently purchased Utah Gas Service Ser-vice Co., is in the process pro-cess of acquirint the American Am-erican Gilsonite refinery near Grand Junction and its feeder pipeline. The sale will become effective Dec. '20, subject to final confirmation by Barber Oil Corp., New York, and Standard Oil of California, co-owners of American Gilsonite. Gary Operating plans to convert the slurry pipeline into a crude oil service line, connecting it in with the existing crude oil lines from the Rangely, Utah Field to Salt Lake City. American Gilsonite, which built the refinery and pipeline at a cost of about $24 million in 1956, decided to discontinue discon-tinue its use as a refinery re-finery feed, since most of the known gilsonite deposits in the world are located in the Uintah Basin Ba-sin of Utah. Other changes planned by Gary Operating include in-clude the installation of truck unloading facilities facilit-ies at the Bonanza, Utah Mine area, Utah end of the 72-mile pipeline; and installation of additional pipeline pumps, which would bring pumping capacity ca-pacity to over 25,000 barrels bar-rels of oil per day. Production Pro-duction at the refinery is scheduled for increase during 1974 to 10,000 barrels of oil a day. American Gilsonite initiated in-itiated a number of scientific sci-entific and engineering breakthroughs for hydraulic hy-draulic mining, slurry pipelining, and refining gilsonite into high-octane gasoline, fuel oils and high-purity, metallurgical metallurgic-al grade coke during its 16 years of operating the plant. |