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...most common process, coal is heated under great pressure to 900° F. As the coal decomposes, it releases oil and gas. Another extraction method, which adds hydrogen to coal that is heated under pressure, will be tested at a small, experimental plant operated by several oil companies in Catlettsburg, Ky. It should be able to convert 600 tons of coal into 1,800 bbl. of oil a day. At a DOE-funded plant in Fort Lewis, Wash., Gulf Oil since 1974 has been testing yet another process called "solvent refined coal," which uses chemicals to remove impurities from...
...process requires 1 ton of coal for 1 bbl. of oil. South Africa keeps cost figures secret, but outside estimates of close to $30 per bbl. make conversion only a longterm, expensive solution to U.S. energy needs. However, a small test plant has been built in Catlettsburg, Ky., with federal, state and private money. It will open this fall and produce 1,800 bbl. of oil daily from 600 tons of coal...
Billy Clark was born in 1928 near Catlettsburg, where the Big Sandy empties into the bigger Ohio. Father was a shoemaker and occasional fiddler, a fine man and poor provider who boasted that he had gone through the second grade. Mother washed other people's clothes with bleeding hands, but would spend her money on fortunetellers, and believed in spirits. In Billy's book, the four sisters are hardly seen or heard, but for the four boys the problem of life was simple: how to get enough...
...Always Darkest. In Catlettsburg, Ky., Police Chief Ray Castle came to work, found a note from the lobster shift: "Ray, the radio in the police car won't work. The lights in the men's restroom are out. Sewer on 34th St. stopped up. The town clock is 7 minutes slow, and payday is past due 10 days...
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