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Show Tosco gains award for shale studies Tosco Corporation has been awarded a $194,000 contract by the U.S. Bureau of Mines to assess fire and explosion hazards at future oil shale mining and processing operations. opera-tions. The company said the 18-month 18-month program will involve engineering and mining tests at the Colony Development Operation oil shale pilot mine in northwestern Colorado, fol-' fol-' lowed by laboratory analysis , of the results and a detailed report to the Bureau of Mines. '. The Denver Research Insti- tute, affiliated with Denver , University, will be a major subcontractor for the study, , which will also involve work , at Tosco's Research Center at . Golden, Colorado. Robert . Crookston, Tosco's mining . manager, will act as project manager for the company and , as principal liason to the Bureau of Mines. Tosco Vice President R. Glenn Vawter said the study t is designed to help the Inter-, Inter-, ior Department's Mining Enforcement En-forcement Safety Administra-r Administra-r tion to formulate effective regulations to insure Ere and explosion safety in commerci- al-scale oil shale operations. Current regulations are based primarily on coal operations. t |