Show Major Maior Oil Co Moves O Oil I Refinery to Roosevelt The initial units of what promises to tobe tobe tobe be the United States State's s first commercial refinery of bituminous sands moved into Roosevelt this week LOADED ON two 40 feet long the refinery equipment will be located on U U. S S. S 40 west of Roosevelt explained Ray S S. Brimhall chairman of the board of Major l Oil Company a Salt Lake City City based based firm Each of the four units brought from Salt Lake City weighed about 6 4 tons and were unloaded by a Hanson Construction Construction Con Con- Company crane THE LOCATION has been under preparation preparation pre pre- for several weeks and Keith Winegar engineer estimated that yards of rock and fill had been hauled to level the area and make a firm foundation for heavy equipment Concrete foundations are also being poured poured pour pour- ed for the equipment We expect that the oil extraction plant will be operating within 30 days stated Mr 11 Brimhall He lIe explained that the extraction plant has been operating on a trial basis in Salt Sait Lake City Weve We ve been trucking in the raw bituminous sand to make studies on actual production production tion runs CAPACITY will be 1000 barrels a day We will recover about a barrel of oil per year of sand Mr SIr Brimhall said He Ile did not know when the plant would be in full production The operation will employ about 20 persons The extraction plant will be moved to the mine site which has not yet been determined The company owns some sands land outright and has leases on other tracts WE ESTIMATE that we ve have proven pro pro- ven reserves of over barrels bar said John B B. B Fairbanks Jr president president pre pre- of the firm We We are negotiating for additional property he added The sand will be mined by the open pit method The crude oil will be extracted extracted ex ex- at the mine site then trucked to the refinery at Roosevelt UPWARDS OF 40 per cent of our our production will be road oil The balance will be diesel distillate and burner oils for commercial heating We dont don't plan to produce gasoline at present SIr Mr Brimhall said Weve We ve developed a special process which makes the best I recovery that we know of A plant in Canada refining the Athabasca sands makes a 55 per percent percent percent cent recovery Our process makes a 95 per cent recovery on the same sand in tests we have run he said WE ARE presently negotiating with th some large oil companies that have holdings in the Uintah Basin to do processing processing pro pro- of oil sands for them he added Part of the fractionating units that are being moved d to the Roosevelt refiner refinery refinery re re- finer finery site were purchased from a refinery refinery refinery re re- finery in Dillin Billing s Montana |