Show Us S authority sees ample motor fuel for coniry future ns 7 A 44 makky H HILL HARRIG C iff io IN GAS MASKS AT AN OIL WELL 4 0 MR HILLS impromptu SKETCH OF experimental OIL AM OIL DOME SHALE REDUCTION PLANT the U 8 bureau of vines title Is confident that motor fuel supplies left 1 I be ample for or many years to meet all need needs of the country i millions of automobiles harry II 11 BM hill acme petroleum engineer of th bureau here tells the reasons for this condition and sketches the advances in inda industrial methods which justify his opinions by H HILL chief petroleum engineer united state states bureau of mine mines NE reason why there Is no rea re 0 ONE son oa to worry greatly about motor fuel for a loni long time ahead Is t that people are worrying about it interest in uch such a question a at t the right time Is the beet beat ansur aca ance against disinter disaster the president and the federal oil corporation baaird have done what was needed at the he right time we know that moet most petroleum ha has come from rather limited area areas and that even from thee there only a mall small pro portion hai has been taken out oil pro aced need by ga gaa pree eure capable of lift ig it to be the surf surface acs when we e drill boles holes la Is but a email small proportion 0 all the oil contained in the sands iven 1 from the beet beat pool pools recovery by the ill methode lit 1 s snail nall perhaps one halt in the most favorable condition conditions one clith or one seventh or one tenth but a considerable part of what still till remain remains in the ground can be recovered by method methods now ae ad technically ally and economically practicable producing oil from coal and shale an and d by ril ning the oil bearing ands sands Is entirely experiment experiments are going on in these theme directions and it we e ever have 1 to all fall back on these resources we will te e ready for a long time however tho the present method methods s of 0 exploration and drilling 1 with improve 1 ing processes proc wae to assure larger cries are likely to suffice an oil dome illustrated I 1 am no draughtsman but maybe I 1 can draw something nm ething that will help ex ez plain diteresi a a rough drawing of at an oil dome the shade I 1 par part at the h e b bo a in torn tom Is a deposit ol 01 oil bear bearing sands nd with an impervious rock stratum arbore A wildcatter wild catter drilled the hole AD and gas pressure caused oil it and 91 gas s to flow after a while the lh gas pressure wan wain t sufficient um clent to keep tip the how flow and they pumped until alti even this ceased producing nevertheless everth eless most ot at the oil was still till left ticking sticking to the and sand grains grain then the operator drilled the well 0 1 which flowed for a time but most of the oil was still down there in the smil tf it the gas pressure could be restored more would flow so the operator I 1 injects gaa ga irto one well rester ing the pressure and causing the oil to asame flowing from the other after a time the now flow will stop ag igieln aln but still much mitch ot of the oil will be left in some fields it has his been poe prible sible to obtain additional amounts of oil by introducing water in some of the wells and forcing the oil to others the ad ot of a chemical ouch uch as eoda soda seh to the water may assist in removing t the 7 oil 11 from rom the sand biah 1 s but 11 net hr abut th ther p plain bain water nor flat water containing rita ining chen cals should be ed id in 0 an oil sand and except ae as a last resort for it a likely that the water which travels taster faster throng through the and sand will get to the open wells ahead ot of the oil and when the flow now Is resumed under pressure water will come out everything saved nowadays the ga gad gai i ct caping from rom an oil well carries with it a of gaio gaso lite which in the he id 14 days was lost nowadays it Is 1 extracted from the gas and sad sited dwle the dry gas can be forced back into the ground to main tain pressure one of or the menaces case to most oil pools I 1 Is a I 1 toe lie inflow of at subterranean lub water water flows through the oil all sands nods f aster th thua oll and by surround sal inc the bottom of DM LM wll well keeps the ib oil out how to hut shut off the water and permit the oil to run out Is a problem with which the engin engineer aers hare have long worked they tare bare made treat great progress pr ogree and so increased recoveries IQ in earlier times timos most oil producers produce ro carefully guarded all information about their well wells and andr experiences but latterly there Is operation cooperation co eo in these matters geologists and petroleum engineers once derided by the aca practical oil men are more and toor roar accepted as guides and mentors new knowledge Is constantly increasing recoveries co at As to mining for oil in lorraine they have dug shifts down dorwn to the oil ands sands and actually brought the ands sands out like coal from a mine but its costly arother minier process Is to eink sink a haft to the oil ainas and from its bottom drive in all directions direct lini i La baroug the da ade from fese tese tun nels small perl perforated orated pipe are driven into tha the andi 9 which drain the oil out it t the sands it flows to larger pipes back at the toot ot at the shift and thence Is pumped out this requires installing an expensive plant but la in some fjelde the high reco recovery verv that Is assured in flit justify the cost coal 1 understand abo tb process Is s about to be in a few fields in this coun di try some companies being convinced convince it Is practicable and 3 profitable oil can be distilled from coal ml ani much work Is to now being done dome along taj line has nut but more appeal has been made by the plan of extracting oil all from shale the ot of scotland have bave been worked for three quarters of a century and ni they are almost un no limited in this country richer in oil than those cl of scotland kentucky ohio colorado utah nevada wyoming m ing and california are particularly rich IQ in hales it Is just a question af the cost ot of extra ling the oil con grese has given tID OOOO with which the bureau has Ino installed a plant neer near rullson rulison colorado to distill oil from td lla colorado river it la is calculated that the hales mined at rullson will produce about a barrel of oil to the too the use ui ef oil in scotland they are ar working bales I 1 that produce about twenty OVA ave gallons of oil per toa tan the seams re from three and u half to eight or tin tan foot t thick in colorado are sam seams many times as an thick aad containing much more oil per ton too reduction of 0 involves an enormous mining opera ilea and after the oil Is extracted the vast tonnage of truee must be dis 1 posed of so it Is expensive 1 compared with producing oil from wells ben den lindsey of at the bureau ot of vines lines experiment 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