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Show .; - v .j " -. " ; - ' wC - -4 i;w " . -" - " -' .s , . - , - - - - ; - . - - --s v . - 1 .-pELINE CROSSING AT GREEN RIVER was made this week by el200-mile long Mapco pipeline from Rock Springs, Wyoming -Hobbs, New Mexico. The Green River crossing was made just '-tvnstream from where Brush Creek enters the river, about j.j. "it miles north of the Jensen bridge. Clam shells and :J;khoes dug a chanel for the pipe, weighted by concrete col- r it ' xUtah oil shale, tar sands of ejects on DOE funding list ft si -J ih projects are on a list of 18 j the U.S. Department of is considering for funding s, Gov. Scott M. Matheson id Monday. All are for syn-.el syn-.el development. spartment will provide $5 companies if the proposals are of the projects proposed for for development of oil shale call for tar sands develop- jartment has asked all states :o participate in the review, ieson said he has asked the xv Office to prepare sum-f sum-f the porposals and submit . Governor's Energy Cabinet, serve as the slate's review binet is expected to make -:;dations to the governor by i government support under :m could be in the form of arantees, purchase com-tjr com-tjr -'Or price guarantees. million dollars are available to synthetic fuels for national wis, with another $2 billion ; lor financial support under of the Federal Non-Nuclear Research and Development ejects submitting proposals 1 Para ho Development Corp., which proposed 10,000 barrels per day by 1984, and 30,000 per day by 1986 from oil shale, southeast of Vernal. Plateau Inc., 20,000 barrels per day by 1984 from oil shale, near Roosevelt. Shale Development Corp. No information in-formation was available. Great National' Corp., 10,000 barrels per day by 1986 from tar sands, Sun-nyside, Sun-nyside, Carbon County. Great Basin Hydrocarbons Inc., 60,000 barrels per day from tar sands, near Green River. Aarian Development Inc., 20,000 barrels per day by 1986 from tar sands, eastern Utah. Although funding has been requested, and plans are being developed, actual consturction of some of the plants in Utah depends on resolution of the White River Dam project, now under close study by the federal government because of several endangered fish species. Without the dam. the companies have told Gov. Matheson they would not be able to construct their plants. Other projects across the country include three oil shale developments in Colorado, two for coal liquefaction in Tennessee and Wyoming, one for high BYU gasification in Wyoming, two for coal-oil mixtures in Florida and Kentucky, one for peat in North Carolina, one for hydrogen in Georgia, one for synthetic gas in Illinois and one for waste heat in Illinois. lars, to be lowered beneath the river bed. Equipment was fastened by cable to insure it would not get stuck in the river. Seven sided-boom crawler tractors assisted in lowering the 12-inch pipe in its final resting place. The pipeline will carry liquid li-quid gas products from the Overthrust area |