Show Coal Aired As Gasoline Source The possibility of af producing gasoline from fram coal is coming nearer reality according to Dr George R Hill dean of the De De- De of af Mines and Miner Miner- Minerals als Industries at the University of utah The department is now in its fourth year of research on the technical problems IN ADDITION to this researchers chers are testing processes to recover oU oil from fram western shale The shale study is being fin fin- financed by Equity Oil Co The late J 1 L Mike Dougan Daugan well well- known to Vernal oil and gas in- in interests in to recover shale oil by injection of heated natural gas Dr lull pointed out that this underground operation would eliminate piles of waste that could mar the countryside at ata ata a time when the nation is try try- tryIng ing to remove blots blats from the landscape The oil extracted by the Equity process is a low pour pour- point paint high gravity product and if this method could be worked out for eastern Utah it It would provide a valuable additive for forthe forthe the thick sluggish Uintah Bas Bas- Basin Basin in crude oil Dr Hill stated AT PRESENT P R ES ENT low pour point crude oil from fram Rangely Field is introduced into the Uintah crude to get it moving through the Salt Lake pipeline As Rangely production is de dining clining a new source of af light light- lighter er oil will have to be discovered ered similar t to the possibility proposed in the Equity process |