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Show I I ocWj Jj A rJ " ImTTOM f 6 OURA J T JtP Ty ) . f J Legend A V U 4 1 Cleveland Cliffs wJ f V ( 2 Geokinetics A Moon Lake Power Plant r' Vli 4 Naval Oil Reserve X 5 Paraho 2 6 Proposed Roads f 7 Texaco ) 8 Tosco S 9 White River Dam 10 White River OU Shale NINE UINTAH COUNTY ENERGY PROJECTS along with proposed roads could turn the southern end of the county into a beehive of activity. ac-tivity. The projects are centered around the rich Energy area road Ending 1 agreed upon byDEfUID i Ag for three roads in the energy 1 of Uintah County estimated to cost ' 160 million has been applied for Jgh the Department of Energy El, according to Uintah County of- said C.R. Henderson, Uintah Hy Energy Director at the Vernal aChamber of Commerce directors' ling Tuesday. Xing in Salt Lake City Friday e representatives of Uintah County, al City Utah Department of asportation (UDOT) and Paul Pat- DOE, oil shale application of- 'he results of action taken by iptah County Commissioners and N City Council the DOE and the Fhave agreed in prinicpal to fund Mi County for the energy essential ,r network in southern Uintah Coun- JM Henderson. J network of roads generally con-ny5l?l con-ny5l?l Vernal to Bonanza, Bonanza to .quWnd Ouray to Geokinetics Camp fcgen in direct routes. The roads will m f Nd to state secondary standards, A Jle ide and they will be paved. W the DOE funds the county and gal Te musi contribute $8 million m i advanced sales and use taxes. P"l take legislative action. r.?E money will be appropriated million per year for five years and county 'must be capable of issuing ef j ' cls for the first $12 million work Marchof 1981 ' work on the Vernal to Bonanza road survey. A preliminary design for the bridge across Green River north of Horseshoe Bend has also been made by the UDOT. A proposed transportation plan to serve the energy resource area of southern Uintah County has been proposed pro-posed for three main projects, estimated to cost over $57.5 million. Road project No. 1 will connect South Asphalt Ridge, the Greater Red Wash Oil and Gas Field, the two Moon Lake (Deseret Generation) Power plants, the Paraho Shale Plant, the White River Shale Plant, the American Gilsonite Plant, the Zeigler Gilsonite Plant, the White River Dam, Reservoir, and Hydro Electric Plant. It will provide for improved access to the proposed SunSohioPhillipsCleveland Cliffs Shale Projects, and provide access to other shale lands, developing gas field, and tar sands area south of the White River Shale Project along the Seep Ridge Road. The road from south of the White River follows closely the 1905 alignment of the Watson Rail head to Vernal road. This area will require about 82 percent per-cent of the County's projected new energy permanent work force and 1990 and near 90 percent of the projected construction work force in 1987. This area is projected to produce wmty and city also applied for f I or new c'ty or expansion of 7 funds, and $100,000 by W engineering expense on the JPtey application was filed Bureau of Land Management fcana Th- rad from Vernal to ln otB section of road has been -fcaltZ . low level three dimen- 2 T?avebeentakentodesig" htS.isnowbingtiedto l!!!r roads do nt nd the "Uh I ta Ui,ltah Engineering U"d Survey has been doing the oil shale deposits and will need better roads to serve the isolated sites. The impact from these projects will more than double the present area population in a ten year period. from a low of 60,000 barrels per day up to 330,000 barrels per day of shale oil by 1990. The 60,000 barrels per day will require re-quire moving approximately 420 large truck and trailer loads of oil to market per day until the pipe line is constructed. con-structed. The initial road project needed to provide pro-vide the above services wili start at 4500 South 1500 East, Vernal, and run south and southeast in a near straight line interconnecting in-terconnecting with the Bonanza road 5 'a miles north of Bonanza requiring 26 miles of new and improved road and one bridge over the Green River. The road will then extend south from Bonanza four miles across the White River to the White River Shale Project Junction. The bridge across the White River is part of the White River Dam Project funded by the State of Utah. Road project No. 2 is from Geokinetics to Ouray to provide a transportation link to the other major oil shale and energy projects on the west and southern part of the county and interconnect them to the populated area on the west side of Uintah County and Roosevelt City. This road project will serve Tosco Oil Shale Project and Geokinetics Oil Shale Operation, the only project presently producing oil from oil shale. These two projects are projected to produce from 35,000 barrels per day to 120,000 barrels per day by 1990 and will require about 18 percent of the projected new energy permanent county work force in 1990 and 10 percent of the construction work force in 1987. This road will be needed to move an estimated 43,000 barrels of oil per day and will require moving 224 truck and trailer loads per day by 1990 or until pipeline facilities are available. In addition, this project will serve a very large and growing gas development develop-ment area along with some oil production, produc-tion, one new gilsonite mine, and provide pro-vide access to large undeveloped oil shale and tar sand areas, including the Naval Oil Shale Reserve and lands with oil shale R&D projects in process. The initial construction for this transportation project will start at the end of the pavement three miles south of Ouray and extend 30 miles up and along the Seep Ridge Road to the Geokinetics Plant. Road project No. 3 is from Ouray to Bonanza and is designed to distribute more of the job opportunities and growth potential to the west side of Uintah Uin-tah County, Roosevelt, and Eastern Duchesne County. This plan will interconnect the high density job area around Bonanza to the Ouray area near the center of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin allowing additional work force to come from Utah relieving the pressure on the Rangely area, where coal mining and other energy jobs will - e'eate substantial socio-economic im- . pacts. This interconnecting road will also provide a road to the Ute Indian Irrigation Irriga-tion Project and diversion dam on the White River and to a large area being developed now for oil and gas production. produc-tion. This interconnection link will require re-quire reconstruction of a road which has been in use since 1905 when it was built to connect Ouray, Fort Duchesne, Roosevelt, Whiterocks, and West side with the railroad at Watson. |
