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...Athabaska region. In addition, the company is mining coal in Illinois, digging uranium ore in Wyoming, and producing fuel rods in Seattle for nuclear power plants...
Farther to the north, construction crews swarmed over the superstructure of a $230 million Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. processing plant that next year will begin tapping the Athabaska tar sands-an oozing black oilfield the size of Maine, which contains as much petroleum as all the world's proven reserves...
...solid nuclear explosion separate imprisoned oil from the tight clutch of tar sand? If it can, the world's oil reserves may soon be doubled. The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...
Richfield's big atomic bet is based on a chemical peculiarity: the molecular structure of Athabaska oil is such that, once thinned by heat, it flows indefinitely, whereas many heavy crudes thicken again in cooling. The spot picked by Richfield for its experiment has rich tar sand down to a depth of 1,000 ft. Then the underlying rock begins. If the A-bomb experiment works, the first small-scale (two-kiloton) detonation will be set off in the rock strata 1,200 ft. below the ground. Engineers expect that the bomb will create a huge cavity, and heat...
...ATHABASKA OIL SANDS in Alberta, which have estimated reserves of 300 billion bbls. but have long defeated efforts to extract oil, will be developed by Canada's Royalite Oil Co., Ltd. Royalite will start building plant this spring to separate 20,000 bbls. of oil a day from sands with new centrifugal process, then add processing plant, town site for 1,400 people, and a 350-mile pipeline to Edmonton. Initial cost: $50 million...