Vernal Express | 1959-01-15 | Page 6 | U. S. Schedules Atom Blast for Oil Shale Test Section

US schedules atom blast for oil shale test thebus the U S bureau of mines mine 9 announced last week it had ila tentatively selected a naesa mesa in il southern garfield county colo cole i as test site for an un der ground atomic explosion for release of shale oil II 11 M gooding of the bur eau chu told a conference on use of nuclear energy in the shale business that no specific larret larget date had been provided for the experiment this depends on tile the oil in du operation cooperation co a and n d with will tile the atomic commission industry and tile the bureau C 11 II enderson cha chairman of tile tho utah oil 01 and gas con ter commission anti and tile the utah state land dowd attended the meetings with frank allen alien director of tile the land board with hope the bureau could be persuaded to locate the shot in eastern utah where shale over overburden bur li Is thicker the Col colorado colored orad 1 mesa to la is on oil the upper upp er end of 0 t the ma 01 canyon of the east fork of parachute creek within tile the of tile the naval ol oil 01 shale reserve similar naval oil shale re exist in fit county viah utah mr air gooding sold said the initial blast la Is expected to produce barrs arrs arr s ot of shale oil anti and 10 million cubic feet of natural g gas as the man mail made loade fire would pro duco duce added of oil bil and gas