Oil-Sands Utah Water 
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2012
American Sands Energy Corp., an oil sands exploration and development company operating in the state of Utah, announced the successful operation of its oil sand recovery pilot facility. The extraction system consumes no water in its process. —Andrew Rosenfeld, company President.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2010
A team at Penn State University has demonstrated that a previously developed method employing ionic liquids (ILs) together with a nonpolar solvent such as toluene can effect a separation of bitumen from oil sands in the Western US at ambient temperatures (~25 °C), although with greater difficulty than Canadian oil sands.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2009
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Earlier post.) Potential lessees may nominate up to 160 acres for RD&D. Earlier post.) Secretary Salazar.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 3, 2024
What is the state of reading in Utah? For the high desert emblematic of Utah’s national parks, consult “ The Geology of the Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah, ” by Robert Fillmore. Indigenous voices are strong and varied in Utah. It begins by reading the land. Ute historian Forrest S.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2012
The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Source: USOS, DWQ.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2012
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
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