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Show LEGION BASEBALL HEADS TO STATE Uintah team's win in Price PATCHWORK ART Quilters guilds prepare for August exhibits. 72i t25 weather by 8961 9060 IwUcd Chun- Partly AbPLN BROOK dmlonm. cloujy. RF.Al.TY, INC. High in (he chance of -" - upper 8tfc ihurnier- ami lows in storm. uGG A( (he luft 60l- r . - 4X OCIIUO ICdlll LU I ! I. . I. . I ii ----Mu.HhUU,, ,,,,,,, SAM LAKE CITY UT 84124-6705 G1 11 5th Year No. 30 Vernal, Utah 84078 www.vernal.com Wednesday July 23, 2003 50 CENTS Your Hometown Newspaper ID1 4 A,, Zi i 1 'I--- i i y- i tF -I f Art v s ' : I "... j - . -- est-"1". - 4. Tim Bates, superintendent of the Chipeta gas processing plant explains the pumping capacity of the compressors used to pressurize the gas to 1,300 pounds per square inch so that it can be introduced into high-volume gas lines leading away from the area. Financial gift By Lezih E. Whoins Uintah Basin News Service . John Baza knowshow crucial higher education is if a community commu-nity expects to prosper. Baza, the director of Utah's Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, Min-ing, was in attendance at last week's formal announcement of a $1.5 million donation by the Anadarko Foundation, a nonprofit non-profit organization operated by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for educational and charitable purposes, pur-poses, to Uintah Basin Applied Technology College and Utah State University-Uintah Basin. Halliburton Road under construction by Mary Bermard Express Writer Half a mile of road construction construc-tion on 2000 South in Naples called the Halliburton Road has been under construction for the past month. Completion is scheduled for late August or early September. "Itlooks extra wide right now, but it's really a typical 66-foot right-of-way," explained Craig Blunt, Naples city administrator. "The road extends west from the intersection at U.S. Highway 40 past Savon Auto and Raptor Industries In-dustries for about 2,900 feet." At a cost of $30 million this an expensive undertaking for the business. Halliburton has been working with its neighbors to engineer a thoroughfare with turn around areas capable of handling semi-tractor trailers. "Engineering the intersection intersec-tion will be key in this project," Blunt explained. "Halliburton takes roughly 150-semi-trips a day from 2000 South onto the highway." Blunt cited a traffic study by the Utah Department of Transportation, Trans-portation, which identified considerable con-siderable vehicle congestion at the location. He said delay times Exit Realty Profussionals 1285 West Hwy 40 Vernal, Utah 84078 (435) 789-EXIT (3948) ! ... ' , . . f. Vv 4 k4 , it:: ?-W I 4 i,. Houston, Texas-based Anadarko is one of the world's largest independent oil and natural natu-ral gas exploration i and production com- mm panies. In Utah, it is the largest producer of natural gas. Anadarko presented pre-sented UBATC and USU-Uintah Basin with $1 million last - UBATC PmiM Tuesday to be used y for construction of a new campus going go-ing up just across the road from Uintah High School in Vernal. The remaining $500,000 will of several minutes for the truck drivers are not uncommon. "It's a hazard for motorists when the trucks pull onto the highway," explained Blunt. "Drivers get pretty frustrated waiting." Some of the pressure will be lessened with the addition of two new traffic lights in Naples. Lights will be placed at 500 South and S.R 45 the Bonanza Highway. Construction is set to begin this month on these traffic additions. "Once, they're in-place then, UDOT will re-evaluate the situation situ-ation at 2000 South," Blunt said. "We're hoping these new lights will alleviate some congestion." Warrants for traffic lights are based on trips per day, traffic flow delays and accident rates. UDOT has no immediate plans to construct a light at the Halliburton Halli-burton intersection. Apparently, the area of 2000 South has a relatively good traffic accident rate despite congestion. Blunt, who has been Naples' engineer, planner and compliance compli-ance officer lately is about to get some help. Scott Jones, from Utah County has agreed to take the open city planner position for Naples and will arrive soon. i i' i ii ' ) - (I:-1 i. s ? J of " 7 t 7" t praised go to USU-Uintah Basin for the school's faculty endowment fund to add an engineering degree .. . . component. The two colleges will share the Vernal YoWt giiwtUejlwU not campus. Economic de velopment and higher educa- ry iii i "on go nana- rad Hackuy in-hand," Baza said. "When one advances it pulls the other up. I cannot tell you how wonderful this is going to be for the Basin's businesses and citizens." V CX I ' v.. 1 v S 1 : s V t'V' Pi , : I '; : I- - 'f .... J . ER physician Dr. Nolan Brooksby and nurses Annette Hansen and Amanda Coombs review a patient's file before continuing with treatment in the emergency room at Ashley Regional Medical Medi-cal Center. ER patients have increased in numbers as well as the severity of the emergencies this year over last. Mia 4 bedrooms. 1 baths, 2 cat qMqc, new carpel ihiouijhout, new wood flooring In kitchen, lieautllul paint In every mom and lots & lots of storage, listed at $214,900. Seller olferinq $5,000 for buyer closinq costs. Darling home. qreat neiqhhorhood CALL SUSAN 821 tOM for your ihowlno Great family Home with nice uptown location, four bedrooms, two baths, living room, kill hen with new appliances and perqo llooiing, New windows, new siding, new metal roof, full sprinkler sprin-kler system, storaqe shed and nice paiini Close to shopping, schools and church. Call Suun today at US o08 ''I i by higher ed leaders Brad Miller, general manager for Anadarko's Greater Natural Buttes, said the financial gift allows the company to do something some-thing directly for the citizens of the Basin. "We wanted to give the local community members the opportunity op-portunity for higher education and training close to home, where they can develop fulfilling careers in our industry," Miller told those gathered at the Utah Field House Museum of Natural History Wednesday night for a community dinner. Perhaps no one was as grateful grate-ful for Anadarko's donation as 1 L Over 1200 sg ft. with five bedrooms and three lialhs, Real nice condition on the the Interim ol home. Home has a half acre lot, biand new lumaie this last winter, listed at $ I 9.900. with $$,000. allowance lor Buyers Make OHer loday1 (ill Sunn today t MM Anadarko offers tour of Chipeta gas plant By Mary Bernard Express Writer "By 2009, Chipeta will have the production capacity to deliver over 400 million cubic feet a day of liquefied natural gas. Enough to fulfill the daily energy needs of 1.6 million American homes." -Anadarko spokeswoman Paula Beasley Over 100 state, county, and tribal officials along with their guests toured Anadarko Petroleum's Petro-leum's newly completed $300 million Chipeta Plant south of Vernal on Wednesday. Anadarko hosted the open house to recognize its operational agreement with Ute Energy LLC to process and deliver natural gas liquids extracted from the Greater Natural Buttes field in the Uintah Basin. "Chipeta is more than just a processingplant, it is a hub," said Anadarko Midstream Vice President Presi-dent Danny Rea. "We intake from 750 miles of gathering pipelines and deliver to four take-away lines that can reach markets in the north, east and south from here." The Chipeta hub currently UBATC President Paul Hacking. Hack-ing. The rapid rise in construction costs forced building plans to be scaled back more than once, Hacking said. It has come to the point where nothing else can be excluded to save money, which made the sizable contribution by Anadarko critical. "It's been 12 years since we first made a proposal to build a building in Vernal, at that time it was about $4 million," Hacking said. "Boy have things changed!" Today building costs top $20 ER visits on the rise at Ashley Regional By Kevin Ashby Express Publisher Reports show a significant increase in-crease in emergency room visits this summer at Ashley Regional Medical Center in Vernal. But the increases are not just in number of people coming through the door.. There is also significant increases in the severity of the sickness or wounds being treated. "There'is probably a 10 percent per-cent increase this year over last with cases dealing with heart attacks, strokes, multiple trauma that includes motor vehicle, oil field and ATV accidents," said Mark Holyoak, chief clinical officer of-ficer at Ashley Regional Medical Center. "In fact, we even had an airplane crashing into a semi on a highway a couple of weeks ago to illustrate the variety of accidents we are seeing." Holyoak also stated that there is also an increase this summer with the flu and stomach aliments ali-ments that keep ER physicians and staff busy. "It has helped that we added more specialists," said Holyoak. Holyo-ak. Recently the hospital hired another orthopedic surgeon that allows them to now provide 24-7 coverage. They are also in the process of recruiting another general surgeon that will give the location, localion, location! ) bedioorn. 1 bath nice living mom and kllchen with laundiymud mom off the garage entrance. Gas heat, fenced yard, laige covered palio and storage shed Single car garage with shelving and vinyl siding listed SI WOO (all Sunn today at J 0fta 1 L j. , a , takes natural gas from some 40 remote compressor stations, processes it and moves natural gas liquids at rate of 285 million cubic feet a day, which is only a fraction of the facility's potential. poten-tial. , "By 2009, Chipeta will have the production capacity to deliver over 400 million cubic feet a day of liquefied natural gas," said Anadarko spokeswoman Paula Beasley. "That's enough to fulfill the daily energy needs of 1 .6 million mil-lion American homes." The difference is in the technology. tech-nology. Currently, Chipeta relies on a refrigeration process to sepa- rate and recover gas liquids to be pumped through pipelines. "Once the cryogenic unit comes on-line it will significantly signifi-cantly enhance liquids recovery at Chipeta," said Tim Bates, Anadarko's facility superintendent. superinten-dent. "Refrigeration liquefies gas at minus 20 degrees, while the cryogenic-process works at minus 140 degrees for maximum recovery." Ultra-low temperature separation sepa-ration is a highly sophisticated technology. In the very low temperatures possible through SEE ANADARKO TOUR on A2 million. The facility, which is now named the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Industrial Technology Technol-ogy building, is slated for completion comple-tion in May 2009. "Your gift tonight is not only timely it's vital," Hacking said. "We take our mission to produce a highly trained workforce very seriously." UBATC worked with .154 companies last year - 72 percent of them were connected to the oil and gas industry. Hacking reported that the technology "SEEFINANCIAL GIFT on A2 hospital round the clock coverage in that department. "We have had a lot of applicants appli-cants for the general surgeon, but we are being very picky, " said Holyoak. "We take it seriously that our medical staff takes care of your family and mine. We have a tight screening process." Emergency room visits range from 30 to 60 per day this summer. sum-mer. In the last six months there has also been an increase in the number of patients seen in the middle of the night when it traditionally tra-ditionally slowed down. "Now we work right on through the night," said Holyoak. Holyo-ak. Currently there are three full time and four part time emergency emergen-cy room physicians. The newest physician is Dr. Dean Anderson who has formal emergency medicine training. This allows the hospital to always have one physician on with another doctor being a backup. Holyoak stated that hospital administrators plan to continue to recruit one more ER doctor to make five full time. Holyoak said currently there are about 10 emergency visits for every one person admitted to the hospital. When asked about how many stitches a month doctors put in, SEE ER VISITS onA2 s uJ.-; v . , I j.L,..---.-.'-'c Rambler over finished basement 4 bedrooms. 2 baths, fenced yaid and water well. 1 .0.1 acres with room foi animals. MonvAii ostium! Call Susan at m I f |