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. . barrels of ocean water in the next five years. The expected recovery is about 400,000,000 barrels of secondary oil. Another major objective is to halt or minimize subsidence of the land surface. The unit agreements are expected to be completed by early fall. On April 21, 1959, Pan American Petroleum Company completed well No.1 Navajo "C" in the NWk Sec. 1, T. 29 N., R. 17 W., with an initial production of 9,000,000 cubic feet of gas and 109 barrels of 700 gravity distillate per day from the Paradox formation. This discovery may provide enough helium-bearing gas to reopen the Bureau of Mines helium plant at Shiprock, New Mexico. Kimball-Campbell Corporation is oompleting its new refinery about one mile south of Bloomfield, New Mexico. Plans call for 95,000 barrels of tank storage. El Paso Natural Gas Company has completed a gas gathering system which extends from its Kirtland plant in San Juan County, New Mexico, to the Paradox Basin pools in southeastern Utah. About 530 wells ,were started and about 400 wells were completed in the "four-corners" area during January-May 1959. Mineral LeasillS'- In Colorado, the AEC plans to set off a nuclear explosion deep in the oil-shale formations of the Parachute Creek area, Garfield County, to learn if the resulting heat and force offers an economical and efficient method of breaking ground for mining or re- leasing oil. Half the cost of the experiment is being solicited from private industry. Public Service Company of Colorado has started construction of a 44,000-kw coal-fired steam-electric unit adjoining its operating 22,500-kw unit at Cameo, Mesa County. In coking qualities, coal mined during the past year in the newly developed Coal Basin area, about 30 miles south of Glenwood Springs, compares favorably with high-grade coals mined elsewhere in the United States. Mid-Continent Coal & Coke Company, which operates in the area, has doubled its production; most of the output goes to western steel companies. In Utah, owing to unseasonably. warm weather and the inroads of both natural gas and oil, coal production in the first half of 1959 was 25 to 30 percent less than a year ago. In Wyoming the recent sale of two sodium leases in the Trona area, Sweetwater County, brought a record bid for the area--$13.13 per acre-- by the Kern County Land Company of California. In Arizona and New Mexico the Utah Construction Company is con- tinuing to prospect by drilling on their coal lease on the Navajo Reser- vation, and is negotiating a contract to furnish coal to a power plant -2-