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Projects

Uinta Basin Water Study
Water-Related Issues Affecting Conventional Oil and Gas Recovery and Potential Oil Shale Development in the Uinta Basin, Utah

Presentations

Utah oil shale samples.

Talks:

Basin-wide evaluation of the uppermost Green River Formation's oil-shale resource, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado

Michael Vanden Berg, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the 28th Oil Shale Symposium, November 2008.

pdf file from PowerPoint (3MB)

Utah's Oil Shale Deposits: Stratigraphy and
Resource Evaluation

Michael Vanden Berg, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the 27th Oil Shale Symposium, October 2007.

pdf file from PowerPoint (3MB)

Re-examination of Utah’s oil shale deposits:
Historical database and new resource evaluation

Michael D. Vanden Berg and David E. Tabet, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the GSA - Rocky Mountain Section, May 2007.

pdf file from PowerPoint (2MB)

Outcrop of the Green River Formation along the White River, Uintah County, Utah.

Posters:

Basin-wide evaluation of the uppermost Green River Formation's oil shale resource, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado

Michael D. Vanden Berg, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the AAPG Annual Conference, Denver, CO, June 2009

	pdf file, Poster panel 1 (4MB)
	pdf file, Poster panel 2 (18MB)

Utah's Oil Shale Deposits: Stratigraphy and
Resource Evaluation

Michael Vanden Berg and David Tabet, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the AAPG-RMS, Snowbird, Utah, October 2007.

	pdf file, Poster part 1 (7MB)
	pdf file, Poster part 2 (2MB)

Re-examination of Utah's oil shale resources: Historical database and new research

Michael Vanden Berg and David Tabet, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the 26th Oil Shale Symposium, Colorado School of Mines, 2006.

pdf file (3MB)

Publications

Basin-wide evaluation of the uppermost Green River Formation's oil-shale resource, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, by Michael D. Vanden Berg, 2008, Special Study 128 (pdf)
Plate 1. Isopach and overburden thickness for a continuous interval averaging 50 gallons per ton of rock (pdf)
Plate 2. Isopach and overburden thickness for a continuous interval averaging 35 gallons per ton of rock (pdf)
Plate 3. Isopach and overburden thickness for a continuous interval averaging 25 gallons per ton of rock (pdf)
Plate 4. Isopach and overburden thickness for a continuous interval averaging 15 gallons per ton of rock (pdf)
Plate 5. Ownership of lands containing oil-shale resources (pdf)
Plate 6. Conventional oil and natural gas fields shown with isopach and overburden thickness for a continuous interval averaging 25 gallons of oil per ton of rock (pdf)
Plate 7. BLM lands available for application for leasing under the proposed plan amendment for commercial oil-shale development in Utah (pdf)
Plate 8. Uinta Basin's potential economic oil-shale resource (pdf)

	Utah oil shale database, compiled by Michael D. Vanden Berg, John R. Dyni, and David E. Tabet, CD, 2006, OFR-469 $24.95
	Summary report (pdf - 14.5MB)
	Purchase at Natural Resources Map & Bookstore.

Survey Notes article: Utah likely to be a key player in future oil shale development, (pdf) pages 5-6, January 2006, v.38, no.1.

Links

Government Agencies

• Oil Shale and Tar Sands Leasing - Programmatic EIS Information Center
• U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale
• U.S. Department of Energy Oil Shale Activities
• Bureau of Land Management – Vernal Field Office (Utah) – Draft Environmental Assessment for Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration Project White River Mine, Uintah County, Utah
• Bureau of Land Management – White River Field Office (Colorado) – Draft Environmental Assessments for oil shale projects in Colorado
• U.S. Department of Energy - Naval Petroleum Reserve and Oil Shale Activities Publications
• Strategic Unconventional Fuels Task Force
• RAND Corporation – Oil Shale Development in the United States

Academia

• Utah Heavy Oil Center – University of Utah (includes oil shale data repository)
• Tell Ertl Oil Shale Repository Database – Colorado School of Mines
• Colorado Energy Research Institute – Colorado School of Mines

Private Sector

• Oil Shale Exploration Company (OSEC)
• Ecoshale – Red Leaf Resources
• Enshale – Bullion Monarch
• Shell's Mahogany Oil Shale Research Project