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Show . ' ipOSED PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER COM-X COM-X Artists rendering of Chevron Chemical ipany plant to be built near Rock Springs, Wyoming. The plant will use Vernal phosphate transported 80 miles through a water slurry pipeline. Chevron fertilizer plconf goes to flocEi Springs, Wyoming .on Chemical Company an-'.'.ed an-'.'.ed Wednesday that is has laiRock Spring, Wyo. as the site ', proposed phosphate fertilizer ;i Ternus, phosphate business '.'opment manager for Chevron deal's Ortho Fertilizer Division, 7 the company has acquired an 'jfromthe Rock Springs Grazing nation to purchase four sections of J- for the plant site, four miles 'asi of Rock Springs along State riay 430. s proposed plant would utilize haterock from Chevron Resource Company's Vernal mine and sulfur from Chevron U.S.A.'s Carter Creek natural gas treatment plant near Evanston, Wyo.' "The phosphate rock would be transported to the plant via an 80-mile-long liquid slurry pipeline. The pipeline would generally follow the existing MAPCO corridor. Water used to carry the ground phosphate rock in the slurry would be used at the plant site," said Ternus. Phosphate and ammonoum phosphate fertilizers manufactured at the Rock Springs plant would be marketed to farmers in the West and Midwest. Phosphate fertilizer is one of the three basic plant nutrients together with nitrogen and potash used to increase agricultural crop yields. Company officials said Chevron Chemical's final decision to build the plant depends upon getting all of the necessary permits and rights-of-way. Another factor is an ongoing review of the project's total economic viability! Pending receipt of the necessary permits, Chevron Chemical hopes to begin construction of the new fertilizer plant in October of 1982. Completion and start-up are anticipated by early .1985. The plant would have an annual production capacity of more than 500,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer, and would initially employ some 350 people. "Any subsequent expansion would be contingent upon expansion of the Carter Creek gas treatment plant," Ternus said. "Depending upon developments there, up to 700 people could be employed at our Rock Springs fertilizer plant by 1990." Chevron i Chevron Chemical Company i Chevron Resources Company j ; Phosphate Facilities Location Map j 1 KEMME RER R0CK j " iTffl SPRJNGL! , j y'tl POSSIBLE FERTILIZER ' CARTER CREEK GREEnT?" PLANT SITE j PLANT RIVERJ-j N tiEVANSTON y " " " t FLAMING GORGE -- I pnccmi f l IIBBV tl NATIONAL RECREATION AREA I V I rUbilBLt iLUHHT f j sl PIPELINE R0UTE tllV i UINTA MOUNTAINS "y V. j 3N VERNAL PHOSPHATE MINE ! r.RaiG & BENEFICIATION PLANT "f ' j r. ITY j Fijurt 1 CHEVRON PHOSPHATE facilities location map. Phosphate from Vernal will meet the sulphur from Carter Creek at Rock Springs to process fertilizer in the proposed plant. Presently, phosphate is being trucked to Phostan and Garfield Gar-field for commercial use. The map also shows how isolated Vernal is from a railroa.d. Mustaches have been known as lip fern, lip fuzz, lip grass, lip bush and spinach. |