Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uproar roared on. Colorado Republican Senator Gordon Allott proposed a bipartisan congressional investigation. District Court Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy directed U.S. authorities to show cause why Girard should not be returned to the U.S. "You're a national hero," Girard's brother told him by transpacific telephone from Ottawa. Whereupon Specialist Girard, who had won considerable public sympathy in Japan by virtue of having a Japanese fiancee, sacked his Japanese lawyer (selected by him and paid for from U.S. funds) and flirted with the idea of playing to the hilt the new role that his brother...
...Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...
...Colorado's Piceance Creek Basin alone, geologists estimate there is an oil shale reserve of a trillion barrels, enough to supply the U.S. for perhaps a century. And the Piceance Creek Basin is only a small part of far vaster shale beds throughout Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The problem is how to get out the oil on a paying basis. The U.S. Bureau of Mines worked on the problem in an experimental Colorado plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more...
...produced more than 4,000 bbl. of oil, can handle some 400 tons of rock a day. With a nest of such retorts, commercial production would be at least 20,000 bbl. a day. But that goal is five years off, warned Union President Albert C. Rubel. In arid Colorado, a big problem for industry is water. Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River 15 miles away. Even more important, Rubel thinks a profitable...
Whichever process wins out, the experts are now sure that shale oil can be produced commercially before too many years. Analyzing the shale future in Colorado, the University of Denver's Research Institute says that a 1,000,000-bbl. daily production is possible...