Show T Tosco official named chairman of R Glenn Vawter Vawter of Tosco Corporation is the new chairman of the Committee on Oil Shale of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association Vawter succeeds D Roger Loper president of Chevron Shale Oil Company Richard Lieber president of Rio Blan Blan- Blanco co Oil Shale Company is the CommitS Commit tees tee's new vice chairman Based in Tosco's Aurora office Vawter is senior vice president in charge of oil shale and minerals He also is president of the Tosco Development Corporation a Tosco subsidiary that is developing the Sand Wash Shale Oil Project south of Vernal The Committee on Oil Shale Is a trade association of 27 companies involved In oil shale In Colorado and utah Geologists believe this region has the worlds world's richest oil shale deposits and estimate that billion barrels of oil are recoverable by today's technology Praising Lopers Loper's contribution to the Committee Vawter noted that under Lopers Loper's leadership that even as the in- in industry moved from a time of un- un unprecedented un- un unprecedented activity to its present level the Committee has continued to be effective Vawter cited Lopers Loper's work on Col Col- Colorado's Colorado's orado's Cumulative Impacts Task Force composed of state officials county and local officials and industry tives is a pioneering effort to iden- iden identify identify socioeconomic Impacts resulting from energy development In nor nor- northwestern northwestern Colorado The major challenge facing the Com Com- Committee Committee on Oil Shale today Vawter said is to stimulate a federal policy of domestic energy sufficiency self a policy that must Involve commercializing commercializing ing the vast deposit of oil shale In Col- Col Colorado Colorado orado and Utah Although US consumption and im- im imports imports ports of oil have declined since the 1974 embargo Vawter said the nation still imports almost third one one third of its crude oil Another lengthy cutoff he said would again create havoc in our economy and undermine the strategic capability of the Ule country It is crucial that we not be lull lull- lulled lulled ed into a false sense of security by the current global energy situation The of the Energy Security Act and nd establishment of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation is a step In the right direction but there is still much to be done bedone on the federal level Vawter said that as chairman he hopes to bring the Committees Committee's views on such Issues to government and the public |