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<br />\ Paraho Corp. Gets Bid I <br />For Shale Field Tests <br /> <br />GRAND JUNCTIO:'i, Colo. -I products bave been removed is which advanced $7.5 million for <br />A $314.000 contract to conduct vital before financing of a com- the current tests. said the fed- <br />environmental field tests of dis- mercial oil.from-shale plant can eTal money for field tests on <br />posal of processed oU shale bas be secured. disposing of !peflt shale "will <br />been awarded to operator! of A semiworks kiln 75 feet high be a major aid." <br />the Par a b 0 Development and 10 feet in diameter has He and Pforzhelmer said the <br />Corp. 's We~tem Slope proj@C! been in operation at Anvil semiworks Idln has had one <br />now producmg pdroleum from Points since late last summer, successful Il.day continuous <br />heated shale rock. exlracting oil (rom shale d!!pos- run and numerous shorter lests <br />The contract was awarded by its delivered from a govern- and "all ha~'e been successful." <br />the U.S. Burt'3lJ of Mines and ment-owned mine which is part The retort uses no fuel. The <br />specifies that results of the of the leased facility. shale itself Is ignited and <br />studies must be made public. John Jones of Denver. Inven- allowed to burn under con- <br />Harry Plon.heiml'r. a vice lor of the paraho proces.!i and trollt'd conditions to produce <br />president of Standard on 0,. of head of Development Engineer- vapor which is condensed into <br />Ohio (Sohiol and Pal'aho pro- isg. Inc., which joined Sahio in petroleum in nearby storage <br />gram director, said the federal recruiting the major firms tanks. <br />money was made available <br />"because Paraho is the only <br />- plant operating with enough <br />S lump shale to conduct such <br />_tests." <br />The Paraho Projeet Is under <br />I wa\' at the Anvil Points shale <br />oil 'testing facility just west of <br />Rifle. Colo. Anvil Points is a <br />U.S. :\a\'31 Oil Reserve facilitv <br />leased for a three-year lest of <br />the so-caUed Paraho method of <br />~ extracting oil from shale. The <br />I~ test. to cost S7.5 million. began I <br />last year and is financed by 17 _ <br />major energy companies. <br />~ pfonheimer said federal en- <br />1 vironmental approval of meth- <br />ods of disposing of shale from <br />which petroleum and ils by- <br />I <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />0069 <br />