| Show first Forst oil oi shale royalty realty check paid to state The state of Utah has just received its first royalty check from oil produced from oil shale last month according to a state source Even en though the royalty payment is small about 84 it itis itis itis is probably the first such royalty ever received by any governmental agency in the US U.S. reports Charles R. R Henderson Henderson Henderson Hen Hen- derson Uintah Basin asin Association of Governments Energy Planning Director The oil shale group developing oil shale lands in southern Uintah County have developed a true situ in-situ process that requires no mining no removal of the top topsoil topsoil topsoil soil uses no water and causes very little environmental disturbances The oil is being sold to the refinery in Roosevelt blended with con con- crude and marketed as product according to Hendersons Henderson's report The process of extraction is different front from any other proposed in the previously leaded type proto oil shale leases The thin layered shallow and surface to which little value has been previously assigned are the choice for this process This is referred to as horizontal fired situ iu-situ and andis is the only process known for recovering oil shale without strip mining according to Henderson has been from an isolated state stale school section because no other land is available is asking for leases on land in southern Uintah County designated as situ in lease Tract A. 9 The federal Environmental Impact Statement on this land has been stalled and letters have been sent to US U.S. Representative Gunn McKay and Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus asking for action in completing the EIS on Tract 9 9 A A AThe The horizontal fired situ in-situ application would recover the oil on over square miles of surface in Utah and substantial areas in Colorado and Wyoming not recoverable by the modified vertical situ in-situ methods to be used in the four prot type proto type leases planned by bythe bythe bythe the federal government The federal situ In-situ Oil Shale Inter Agency Task Force must complete the EIS on Tract 9 9 A 9 A before it can be leased for oil shale development according to Mr Mr- Henderson |
