Download or read book Potential Applications for Nuclear Explosives in a Shale oil Industry written by Frank E. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential Applications for Nuclear Explosives in a Shale oil Industry written by Frank E. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Possible Engineering Applications of Nuclear Explosives in the Shale Oil Industry written by R. E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential of Nuclear Explosives for Producing Hydrocarbons from Deposits of Oil Natural Gas Oil Shale and Tar Sands in the United States written by J. Wade Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appreciable difference between producible proved reserves and ultimate reserves and resources of hydrocarbon deposits is of such magnitude that much petroleum, natural gas, shale oil, and bitumen will not be produced unless significant technological progress is made in production techniques. The shattering effect of contained nuclear explosives and, to a lesser extent, the heat produced, have been considered as stimulative forces when the thickness, depth, and nature of such deposits permit considering the use of nuclear devices. The technical feasibility of using nuclear explosives cannot be evaluated fully at present. Additional information is needed on the effects of pressure, heat, and radioactivity on the solids and fluids of hydrocarbon deposits, the nature and extent of induced fractures in different rock media, and the possibility of isolating and confining or removing radioactive contaminants. Final technical feasibility can only be determined by a field test. If technical feasibility is established, economic feasibility will depend upon the comparative cost of producing hydrocarbons by nuclear explosives and by conventional means. It is probable that an economic comparison would favor nuclear stimulation only where devices of relatively high yield could be used practicably and safely. (Author).
Download or read book General Report on the Economics of the Peaceful Uses of Underground Nuclear Explosions written by Oskar Morgenstern and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plowshare program of the Atomic Energy Commission sets forth to put nuclear explosives to peaceful, economic use. The present report evaluates the major fields of application proposed up to now for such explosives. They are the stimulation of gas and oil reservoirs, production of shale oil, applications to mining, cratering, and a list of various other projects, among them storage of natural gas, waste disposal and water resource management.
Download or read book Technical and Economic Potentials of Shale Oil Production by Nuclear Explosives written by Klaus-Peter Heiss and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest single reserve of hydrocarbons known to exist anywhere in the world is given by the oil shales of the Green River formation. in the western part of the United States. With available conventional techniques only an insignificant part of these resources could be tapped, and that only at great cost and under considerable technical uncertainties. It is on this basis that the Oil Shale Advisory Board came in 1964 to the negative conclusion that such an oil shale industry would not be competitive under conditions as they were at that time. In the following report a new technology is discussed which was first proposed in 1959, but which has been developed mainly since 1964: the in situ production of oil from shale by large underground retorts created by nuclear explosives. The first part of the present report describes this new process; the second part gives an analysis of the United States and the world endowments with crude oil resources and oil shale deposits and finally, the third part deals with expected cost estimates of this new technology as compared with present crude oil prices and potential costs of conventional shale oil production.
Download or read book Potential of Nuclear Explosives for Producing Hydrocarbons from Deposits of Oil Natural Gas Oil Shale and Tar Sands in the United States written by J. Wade Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appreciable difference between producible proved reserves and ultimate reserves and resources of hydrocarbon deposits is of such magnitude that much petroleum, natural gas, shale oil, and bitumen will not be produced unless significant technological progress is made in production techniques. The shattering effect of contained nuclear explosives and, to a lesser extent, the heat produced, have been considered as stimulative forces when the thickness, depth, and nature of such deposits permit considering the use of nuclear devices. The technical feasibility of using nuclear explosives cannot be evaluated fully at present. Additional information is needed on the effects of pressure, heat, and radioactivity on the solids and fluids of hydrocarbon deposits, the nature and extent of induced fractures in different rock media, and the possibility of isolating and confining or removing radioactive contaminants. Final technical feasibility can only be determined by a field test. If technical feasibility is established, economic feasibility will depend upon the comparative cost of producing hydrocarbons by nuclear explosives and by conventional means. It is probable that an economic comparison would favor nuclear stimulation only where devices of relatively high yield could be used practicably and safely. (Author).
Download or read book TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC POTENTIALS OF SHALE OIL PRODUCTION BY NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environments at U S and U S S R Nuclear Explosion Sites Petroleum Stimulation Projects written by Terman, Maurice J. and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Plowshare program for the peaceful application of nuclear explosives was formally established by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1957. The first Plowshare experiment, Project Gnome, was detonated on December 10, 1961. The second such experiment, Project Rulison, conducted on September 10, 1969, under the sponsorship of Austral Oil Company, Inc., the AEC, and the Department of Interior, is currently being evaluated. These two experiments emphasized the U.S. interest in the potential application of underground nuclear explosions to the petroleum industry. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has evinced considerable interest in the nonmilitary applications of nuclear energy, but their parallel development of research and experimentation has largely gone unpublicized. The true extent of their progress has been indicated at the Soviet-American technical talks on the use of nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes which were held in Vienna during April 1969 and in Moscow during February 1970. The Soviets identified cratering and underground projects in a number of media, including clay, shale, sandstone, limestone, salt, and granite, with explosions at depths ranging from near surface to about 1,500 meters. All of the identified underground projects have had industrial applications. (Author).
Download or read book Nuclear Explosion Services for Industrial Applications written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 477 and identical H.R. 10288 and companion S. 1885, to amend the Atomic Energy Act to authorize AEC to provide peaceful nuclear explosives to commercial domestic and foreign concerns under an expanded Plowshare Program. Includes report "Nuclear Construction Engineering Technology" by Lt. Col. Bernard C. Hughes, Sept. 1968 (p. 447-629).
Download or read book Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Explosives Plowshare written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes scientific articles and papers, p. 55-606.
Download or read book Nuclear Explosives for Oil and Gas Stimulation Shale Oil and Gas Stimulation and Shale Oil Recovery written by Henry F. Coffer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential of Nuclear Explosives for Producting Hydrocarbons from Deposits of Oil Natural Gas Oil Shale and Tar Sands in the United States written by J. Wade Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oil Shales and Tar Sands written by United States. Department of Energy and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
