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<br />RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO.
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<br />Oil shale wate" requirements
<br />(^cr~reet per ~'elU']
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<br /> IY60 ]9ti5 19.0 I 1075
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<br />Db.crled____._._________. u__ .----- -----------,- Pl 1.3lM1 27,000 252.000
<br />Rctllrncd ________,..___u________._._.__ m ---- ------- 5,~U 11. O(~) 93.0(l()
<br />COIlStIIllNI:------ ------- i,~tl 16,()()(J 1.',9, "00
<br />Supply cRpibil;lY~~~~~:::: ~:~~::: :~::::: :::~: :::::::::: , 500 5,000 4tl,OlJO 250,000
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<br />I Negligiblr.
<br />Development pattern
<br />Because of the t,ime needed to design and build the lirst production
<br />facility, it is doubtful that a shale industry can begin much earlier than
<br />predicted. A delay is possible, howe\.er, in the event that petroleum
<br />('ont.illlle.s to be aV~l.ilflhle in ample supply- Even SO, we believB the
<br />de\'elopment. pattern of the industry, once started, will be the same-
<br />first, prototype productiOTI followed b:y moderate expansion and
<br />finally, significant production quantities. The time required for this
<br />sequence, in the ahscncc of n national emergency, will be 12 to 15 years.
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<br />Location
<br />, It is anticipated t.bat the first oil shale de\'elopments will be in t.he
<br />Pal'achute.H.olln Creek area of western Colorado and along t.he Colo.
<br />rado River bet.ween Rifle 'lIld De Beque. After lO7U the oil shales iu
<br />the Piteance Cree,k area. llnd in Uintah Countv. Utfth. .will become im-
<br />portant. Some development in t.h~~se latter n~reas co,ild begin earlier.
<br />It is estimated th:lt of the 1,2f>O,000 barrels per day of shale oil pro-.
<br />duction predicted for W75 over 90 percent will be in Colorado.
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<br />Population
<br />The population serving t.he shale indllstry will be large bv 1975.
<br />The tabulation belo\'; give.s estimates of persons directly or inclirectly
<br />related to the shale iudustry.
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<br />Shale ill(llJstry P01)ul(lti(}1~
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<br />1~0 I 1965 I 1V70 , 19;5
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<br />Sh:lle~mplny{'('.S___. ____._.______ l()lll----;;;I-~I-~
<br />ConstructIOn force, ll\erage__ _ ______ I,:!oo 3,()QO 18,000
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<br />~.:\~lheo~~%'dld:~~~..~~~~~~~~:~~::~~~~:~~~::~::~~~~:~::-~ :=:~~:::::::I ~~, \~:~~ \
<br />:Ne'.... POi)u\\l,~\orL.____.________._. n__________n___h__jn.._..~n_.1 2,300 I 45,00\)
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<br />53,500
<br />~3,OCIO
<br />340,000
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<br />1 lnc\wlesshale rclutt'd InQustries.
<br />Byproduct8
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<br />The principa.l by])rodllcts of shale processing for outside eonsump-
<br />t.ion will be amm(;nia, sulfur, and coke. Petrochemieals will not be
<br />impOlt"nt during the lirst 15 or 20 years of t.he industry. RetOli, and
<br />refinery gases will be eoneumed by the indust.rv for fuel and power
<br />generation. After 1!J70 the manufacture of explosh'es, sulfuric acid
<br />cement rlnd nthe,r mnterials consumed by the lIldnstry and its com~
<br />mUltity, will begin.
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