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<br />'~e highest production of oil from shale which now appears possible
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<br />is 2.5 million barrels per day/by 1990: ,t~e most likely sChe~u1e is, a-
<br />" , 'bout 1.6 million BPD, and t~e ,lowest level ,of .produqtion is, likely, to, bc '
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<br />,"~'-' '150;OOO",barrets' pei'd~y,' according' to ,the Interagency Oil Shale Task" r
<br />Force. "These schedules are not forecasts~" the interagency group em- ",
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<br />in the constraints that surround oil shale, it said. l
<br />The Federal Agency Administration asked the task force to determine
<br />whether oil shale production could be stepped up beyond the 250,000 BPD
<br />production expected on public lands in 1985 as a result of the Interior
<br />Department's prototype test lease program. Under this it leased four
<br />tracts, two each in Colorado and utah, of 5,120 acres each, from Janu-
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<br />Western Resources
<br />Series X, No. 28
<br />accelerating oil shale deve10pment-
<br />lead story
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<br />wa~hington-The shale oil industry, once in operation, would be
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<br />-the world's largest minerals processing industry, mining and handling
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<br />solids on a scale which has not been previously accomplished," accor-
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<br />COLO. ~1:A :=i~
<br />CONSERVATION BOARD
<br />Wrap-up
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<br />From: Helene C. Monberg
<br />123-8ixth Street Southeast
<br />Washington, D.C., 20003
<br />Area Code 20)-546-1350-1
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<br />ding to a secret internal report on oil
<br />Mining oil shale would be centered
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<br />shale.
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<br />in the .iceance Creek Basin in
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<br />Northwestern Colorado, with lesser activity in the Uinta Basin in/Utah
<br />and perhaps some activity in oil shale country in Southwestern Wyoming.
<br />Processing the oil from the shale is expected to take place near the
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<br />mine site.
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<br />ary through April of this year. Interior was unsuccessful in its at-
<br />for lease
<br />tempts to sell the two Wyoming tracts offered/in the state's Washakie
<br />Basin.
<br />YES, BUT
<br />The development of an oil shale industry could be materially step-
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<br />ped up, the task force stated. But this would require additional leas-
<br />ing of federal lands in larger tracts, partiCUlarly in Utah and wyoming,
<br />colorado solving a water problem which will constrict development in
<br />that state, and possibly relaxing its tough air pollution control law
<br />between now and 1980, among other things, the task force sa;n ,~
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