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Show Interest Taken In Home Industries In the Interest of home industry and c.p vially th coal products and oil industries cf RMipefc and Savior couttti s, Clifford Mast'.by. W. L. and Reed Rasmuss lit have spout considerub time with the ststu plaexnlng board at the Capl ol and tl Univrrsity of Utah, tnva-tignting tnva-tignting the research that has been dcaw that may apply to coal and o 1 proc a ing In our section of thi state. Thry have found that there Is a BpVxxUd setup for such an Industry Indus-try In this locality. They speMtt an entire day with Mr. L C. Kttrrick. government vngineT hi charge of coal and oil products iwt'srrh at the. University Univers-ity of Utah, who has given tliem th? artlcU-i which follows tlvs story. OIL, COAI. MTNER9 AND MINING ENQINTEKS By L. C. Karrlck. E. M. Th OU Situation Today The pas year vltiversed a con-eump;lon con-eump;lon of one billion barrels of oil In the United Slates. th largest larg-est dtrowd In tho seventy-six y?ars of p trolerum produaian In this country. It Is probablo that with the elusive "hot ail" now largaly controUed by the fed r.il government that the consumption Is tn round numb rs one hundred minions barrels p tr . month. It ii alarming to note that the crude cil In storage In 1929. th p ak In oil staras, was- nearly sevttt hundr d million barrela or barely enough to lass the country three months. It Is :af- to say that the day of ch- up petroleum In the Unit d States has gone. During th- pis. fir y ear th i search for ol hps been den? largely by th , ma o: ol". cotnpinHS ;nd wth. highly dAvloped scientific me h ds fr ta.l-"g sub-surf ac geolog'o 1 d.v and b;.- us cf geo-phy ical m ith-ods. ith-ods. Th a methois ar vary ex-p ex-p tisivp. whTt wl dorp and when tha data are corre'ated. and a-? beyord the rtach of th "cheap" prmot r or wildcat. V. In rpit ci tha search for n "w oil fle'ds which has b "n mtre exhaurtiv then cv r befor . there, has n t been found a "major" oil field In cvT sixty month-. In as much as a one hundred m Won barrel ol fl id is c-rrfder d to b a "raajetr o'l field." we can oondud that tlvs country 13 behind in ltr cil production by sry ma:ar ol! fields. The. prospects for fin-l'n? 1 new larg- ol field- ar discouraging discourag-ing snc- the dril has penetra'ed : ell of the known crl-bearing s di- ! me-. ry fvrma iens as w 11 a4; rhcrri In which cil yielding life forms existird. 1 The posslbiliti' 5 of discovering " new oil fi Id-, arxl the probabe iraeiCTsraund suppli s available by drxling within the ores nt provtn arsas, are w 11 discus ed by Mr. WaLBoe E. Pratt, vic.i president of th Humble Oil Co. (Standard OU of New Jers:y in the August 193j jrsur; of thr "Lamp," the monthly magaziiw of the S. O. of New Jersey. Jer-sey. Also this topic is w 11 covered by -Dra. B?r.jamin T. Brocks and . L. C. Snid-T, ccnsultlng petrolrum enginsfrs and geologists for the CfeifB Servioa Corporation (Hrlnry L. Doherty), in a pap'r preent'd by them at tha Amticam Chemical Chemi-cal Society conv-ntiirv in Sn rrandsco on August 19, 193"). Th'se authorities, with the largest cU companies of th? United State?, prrsent adequate da'a to prcv: tt&t the future petroleum will b? produced at much greater cost chia to the incras d cost of th6 exploraJon work and because ol the dsep T drilling and pumping ca'ls. Th'y estimate a posslbl-five posslbl-five to (ght V ars supply of til oblilnable in th? earth, but at in-cr':astng in-cr':astng cost, and then it will be avessary to cuppl ment the ever-increetsing ever-increetsing demand with oil made from the oil-produtog coals and oil shales of Utah, Colorado and a few other rtat'B with like resources of morei limited extent The Coal-O l Situation Dr. Alexand r Sachs, r s arch director di-rector in the Deipartment of the Intei'.or, has published the. fact that half th' known coal in the-civiliz-d world is tn te United States, alro that all of this coil i3 now in private hands with the x ceptin of small bodies in th-i far wfst which are now under federal government central and are available avail-able only by leas? from th? gov-ertnrent. gov-ertnrent. It fihculd also be no'.td that all df the o l produced in the United Statfes prior to 1860 was manufaoturd from coals and oil ahnles. Th Te w f lfty-f lv suc-cerisful suc-cerisful companies making oil from coala in 1859, on? of which op'r-sH op'r-sH a 6,000 gallon coal oil refln-ery refln-ery to the city of Boston. An oU guah'tr was brought in near tihe center of tha coal oil nvanufa"tiu:-teg nvanufa"tiu:-teg ar a aft r which the coal-oil retfin-ri' were used for refining th' petrcleum and thr. occl di' '.illeri. s wcr.i shut down. Of even great r int'rist to the Uuah miner and engin ter is Ihe fact that th i fi'd ra1 goverrtment Bttab'i-ar!d in Salt Lak. City in 1918 th-i headquarters for inverti-gating inverti-gating the finormous bod'rs of oav-bortao oav-bortao w.is matnria's of the Rocky Mountains frr po slble oil reserves for th I rourrtry. For stvn y'ars the itudl-s ccciilnu d being largely J ortf tried to investigating the Utih coals. ATI types of coals wer sUidi.-d for ol pio.liiolon. nLo dhe il slui.li (J, thei solid hydtv iwboiia and Ui i rock t) phnlt of the UIuU lxus iv and th; Ciuuvl ooul of Soulhern Utl.ih. In this ext nshv lnvrotUjaUon, with which t)v wtIUt was ui socl-i.t socl-i.t d, tc was prot"d that tl.i Utali cools ylt-ld more oil and of liinh r qmUAy than any oth r larire bodies bo-dies of cnuIs in thi United States. Th; arailable coiU supply nanounts vo approxinint ly two husdixxl bll-lkm bll-lkm touts, niul frvnt this am be produced on-.- hundn-d fifty billion barrels of oil by slmpl di tlllatloa at low temp ratures. In addl'Um :t was prowxl that tills tr atnt ut p!xxfud."s simultiUYOH.ily fiwl trafi vrih a hA'ting value of from 900 to 1120 B. T. U. per cubllc foot, wh eh is sup nor to most natural Ras, and a solid smokel?! a fu 1 which la ideally suked to burning In all dom s ic and lncTustr'al h.ut-injf h.ut-injf eqtt pmt nt. Tills amount of crude oil ly thirty five tim s as large as the estimated under-prcund under-prcund r s- rve of p trol um In ;ht s'.nte cf California, and fifty timeo as nivch as in tlve East Texas fUV.ds. This U:ah cal cil is easily rfnd Into very high anti-knoik rasolln"'. also Diesel o 1. rood oil. lubricants, waxes, reslno, alo ln-"oct'cld-s and pr.ervatlvs. Nfany Omates hav bcon mad in the studies wi h th- federal gov m-nn-Tit and in the engine ring and leonomlc stud es at the University of Utah during th- pas. six y ars, snd ha-? shewn that a ami 11 ccal-productB lndurry In Salt lak Valley of sufflcimt sda? to nrovide the badlv n 'dxi sold aitd sa-ieous "mob'esB fueU at low 5t to 'n- twinro r. w1U p"odii' "md" oil a confid-eraMv 1t? than o;-a dnllT perb b rr '. With the ci-'iT in p-role-Trv pr d 'ct cn ti h'eh"r or o s on tht w t toest Utah's oonl and coal prod-"it prod-"it wl' f'nd a very linre market hrcnigout th' far wsr. Oil. gas - ,h c ry. pew r market" do rot ' uctuVe ma ertally. s" so -ally. 'Xir In 'imes of d-pffsi t. and. h for sincj? col will b th.e .-61? th s "sr"n'iU co'rmoJi-"" co'rmoJi-"" ' . 'h cr-' minr ar- all others canrart: d w th th? Utah coal ln-T; ln-T; ft'T mav w U lock with .-lit Vn 1-em 1-em toward the fu'ure of Utrh's m s va uable i?-curc --C AL The Oil Shal Situation A- s ated abtve, ?hnle oil was produced rather 'xt naively in th Unl ed S'ats pricr to 1861. A number of th? for ign countries hav corf iru d to opera'-? most cf the time up 'o th? pr s-nt. Japan hs recT.tly bu;lt a large :hal ' oil trdaTy In Mtchura from wh ch sh- produc s much of h'r n".-al fuel oil and high ccta-jr gasoline for airplan'o. I aly :tart-ed :tart-ed to build such an Industry t'n ye-rs ego but th? rhal 's w re of 'oo lew qualify to operate. A shale ri Indus ry is b-ing built 1n South Afrca, rrd o-her countries- ar nd avoring to expand pres nt sma'l operations. Utah conta ns the lixg st area cf rtl hales cf any stat , and tho available supply will prob-bly produce pro-duce thirty billion barr"Is of exud-oU. exud-oU. th's b-lng one-fifth of the oil that may be produo d from Utah's ccials by the :ame treatm-mt. In strata are much thicker in large accessible vreas and the o'l r'-souroe r'-souroe if consic rably larger than in the Utah shales. Tha Bureau of Minrs 3tudle,. from 1-aboratory to comm. rcial scal'V brought out much chemical, engineering and economic dati regarding re-garding the ci's and their refined products, also r-'garding the physical phys-ical and chemical properties cf the oil sha'es of th? different ftrata. All known typ5 cf plants and pro-c pro-c sses were studied, al o the question ques-tion of mining, transpir ing and crushing th- shale at. th? plant i lte, comprised a much larger cat Item than eitheT the operating ccet of the tr atlng plant or the carrying charges on tli? Invstmi'nt. It was s-en th-t the larg st opportunity oppor-tunity for savings with either of 'hi two erected plants, If used in commerci-il operation, wou'd be through economies in mining. The ."tudies of the prop-rtr'6 of the shnl a in the difforent strata, wh-n treat'id und"r a grat varltty of heating cctnditions and whll- varying vary-ing the sizer- of the sha'e lumos, bought out the vry lnt rerating; fact that th operation cou'd produce pro-duce oil for possibly sixty cenV-p-r barrel 'f the shal s ri d'-s'.illed d'-s'.illed in stop r. underrround whre h' y w Ire mined. Modified gas-produo'T gas-produo'T prtncipl-e wer i decided upon for herting the msna t, of shales. Many fcrnr- rf stopes. mrth-ods mrth-ods of oemdU'-ting th deve'lopmenl work, and handling th . oil yzipors aril gates were designed. It was thought by the writer ?.nd some of his asyc,at" thnt two vtry larg coal ol and shale oil lndutTie-- shou"d be bui't a bocTt to labor in the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain ar-a. and wher . the mi"ir.K "nglnp-f would direct the crryin!? of 'ho productd'-n of the "bas' load" of th? cil d-mand in the far west. |
