Show Oil Shale Deposits Important to US I Oil shale deposits in the Wyoming Utah area are extremely Important to the future of the United Stat Stat- States es according to the lead art art- idle icle in the spring edition of The Humble Way quarterly publication of Humble Oil Refining Co THE ARTICLE is entitled Shale Oil Potential New Competitor I It pointed out that oil shale deposits cover square mlles miles in the three states and have enough hydrocarbons in them that total many times the present proved reserves of oil and gas Although extracting costs have been prohibitive in the past new technological do- do developments are exp expected to tomake tomake make shale a competitor with oil gas coal water power and uranium THE AMOUNT of oil ed in place is estimated at be- be tw en 1 Yz to two trillion bar bar- roughly 15 times the re re- re recoverable coverable oil reserves discovered ered in the US The magazine noted that Humble Oil has joined Soc Mobile ony-Mobile Oil Co in leasing casing the Colorado School of Mines experimental plant near Rifle to corda t research At present the government t owns owns about 90 of the the Os es |