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Show SHALE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draw-1g draw-1g of its "modular retorting" concept of ENDECO I process. The retorts are portable 3nd can be moved about utilizing smaller oil shale deposts adjusting the number of retorts amount of shale deposits, according to California oil shale company presents retorting process Lrt D. Thomas of Shale anient Corporation, last week ssed the Utah State Energy si in response to an invitation by jovemor Scott M. Matheson. -as is president of a Redlands niia company which has applied t Department of Energy for ace in the construction of his company's oil shale production facility southeast of Roosevelt. Because of the unique "Modular Retorting" concept of his company's ENDECO I process Thomas believes Shale Development Corporation's "Sand Wash Project" could be on stream within 12 months of the federal government's approval of its application. Because the ENDECO I retorts are portable, explained Thomas smaller shale deposits become economically viable because by adding the required quantity of smaller modules, the extraction ex-traction facility can be matched to the property in contract to the billion dollars sized plants being proposed by some of the major oil companies. |
