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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Unocal expansion will extract helium at Lisbon Field plant Proposed public land sale draws comments at La Sal hearing San Juan County will benefit when Unocal Corporation expands its operations in the Lisbon Field from oil production to gas blowdown. The new operation could provide employment opportunities and increase the county tax base, Unocal plans to build a 60 MMcfd gas treatment plant and a helium purification and liquefaction plant starting in early 1990 for completion by summer of 1991. The new plant gaseous helium has undergone butane, ethane and helium. Forty percent of the net profits are expected to be from butane and 20 percent each from helium and ethane. Elemental sulfur will be recovered from the gas, and oil production will continue, but at a lower rate. Gas will be sold through new s to two existing gas pipelines. Liquified helium will be shipped in two or three 11,000-gallo- n truckloads per week. Unocals interest in the Lisbon unit is 52 percent, according to a report in the Oil temperature at which all will handle a mixture of tie-in- and Gas Journal. Demand for both liquid and amazing growth in recent years, says Dave Peters, Lisbon unit project manager. Worldwide demand was under one billion cubic feet per year in 1977. By 1987, it was 2.2 billion cubic feet per year, and demand is continuing to grow at about a 10 percent annual rate. Helium is the only known substance that does not become a solid at temperatures apthe proaching absolute zero molecular motion ceases. It is also inert and extremely light. The properties give helium V1abJleSP!1Cail0'lf.1.'! 8 h,8t of industrial, medical, elec tronic and other fields, particularly in the area of cooling systems. CAT scanners, magnetic resonance imagers, high-energ- y linear accelerators and computers are just a few of the devices that use helium LCOOtT . The Unocal pknt expaon marks the company's dredth anniversary. On sale process. by William Pierce January 17 represen- tatives of the Utah Division of Natural Resources held a public meeting at the La Sal Elementary School to present and receive comment on the General Management Plan for Old La Sal. What the state is attempting to do is sell or lease portions of state school sections in the area. They have set aside six parcels of land consisting of approximately 2,784 acres of state trust land. Currently, nearly all of the available land is leased for metalliferous minerals (uranium and vanadium). Nearly all of the land is under permit for grazing purposes. The primary intend-ed use under the plan is for recreational homesites for all suitable land in the planning unit. Four issues were addressed: (1) conflict with recreational homesites and mineral velo t (2) conflict with de-sup- er cutrent Women's day conference February 3 Womens Day Conference which will be held at the Blanding Stake Center on Saturday, February 3, begin ning at 10 a.m. The conference is sponsored by the .Blanding Utah Stake Relief Society. The conference is for all women age 18 and over. A special invitation is extended friends in to all each community. A luncheon non-memb- er will be served. Guest speakers at the conference will be Jessie Karma Mikesell, Tamra Lyman, Dora Bayless, Debbie Christensen and Margaret Shumway. McDonald, The of the conflict with wildlife interests, and (4) the threat and control of wildland fires in relation to the recreational homesites. To deal with exploration of Youll always be in style when you make your clothes with fabric from Monticello Mercantile Fabric 20 off mmmmsmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Monticello Mercantile explained that the situation would be handled as it currently is in other locations. The mineral lessee has thp right to the ' surface use necessary to develop the mineral resource. Occasionally, such uses may conflict with other surface use. In those instances, the developer is required to reimburse the owner or lessee of the surface of the lease premises for actual damage. . Where the land is leased for grazing purposes, the holder of the permits has equal opportunity to bid during the public RANGE FUTURE IS NOW on Display at MOSS TV and APPLIANCE in Cortez. Self Clean - Smooth Tops, as FAST as GAS Phone 565-710- 1 for Exciting Details. In dealing with wildlife concerns, the state says the sale of trust lands are presently limited and recreational homesites are limited to suitable lands. The Division of Natural Resources will consult with the Division of Wildlife to determine the appropriateness of construction plans. The scheduling of lease and sales will allow the division time to assess the contribution of value that the presence of wildlife may have to the marketability of trust lands. In dealing with wildland fires, the division indicated that things would remain basically as they are for other home owners in the area. New homeowners would be required to follow adopted fire standards and be aware of existing county ordinances or require ments regarding fire safety standards. Public comment dealt with the pros and cons of leasing or selling the proposed parcels and which would benefit most the purpose of the school trust lands. Concerns were sed about the loss of use of the land if they become private domain. These lands would join those already closed to the public for hunting, fishing, wood gathering, and recreational uses. Information is available from the division, and public comment may be made by addressing correspondence to: Old La Sal DGMP, Division of State Lands and Forestry, 355 West Temple, 3 Triad Center, Suite 400, Salt Lake City, UT 84180-120- 4. Deadline for written comment is February 10, 1990. Lady Pirates feed Bucks to the sharks (3) minerals the department As Women of Faith is the .theme of the LDS Stake Wednesday January 24, 1990 - Page 5 by Tom Livingston The Monticello girls basketball team traveled to Green River last Thursday in hopes of winning the regular season Region 13 championship, but instead suffered an old fashion- ed, honest-to-goodnes- s, at the hands of Final score: Pirates. the. Lady blow-o- ut 62 to 37. The Lady Bucks wanted this game in the worst way. That may have been part of their problem as the adrenalin was really flowing and it showed most heavily in their shooting, as in bricks. The Bucks put up so many bricks they could have rebuilt the Great Wall of China five times over. In the first quarter, they went 4 of 14 shooting, but were behind by one point at the end of the first period. In the second and third quarters, their shooting was on par with the raging blizzard back in Monticello,' but they also left the rest of their game back there too. They continued to make uncharacteristically bad passes and defensive errors. Playing worse than ever, the Bucks managed to score only 6 points in the second quarter and 8 points in the third. On the other side of the court. Green River was cooking. They played the passing lanes perfectly, and the better they played, the more confident they became. Several of the Pirates .had career best games. The Bucks regained some of their composure in the fourth quarter and played with some of the spark that has brought them success all year. It was too little, too late. They ended the game shooting just 23 percent. 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