Occidental Oil Shale This project involved a proposed in-situ retort oil shale mine located in Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The scope of work included: (1) prepare a mine layout and operations plan, (2) evaluate the existing facilities and develop plans and estimates for modifications to support the new mining plan, (3) develop [...]
Oil Shale
AAI personnel performed a hydrological assessment as part of geotechnical characterization studies in support of preliminary mining evaluations of tracts C-11 and C-18. Field measurements of water levels, water production, and water quality were performed during core drilling activities at the site and were used to establish test intervals for drill stem (DST) measurements of [...]
ConocoPhillips Company retained Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) to develop a conceptual mine plan for a modified in-situ (MIS) oil shale mine located in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The scope of work for this project was to review concepts for MIS recovery of shale oil and to develop a preliminary mine plan that allows demonstration of [...]
Piceance Basin, Colorado American Shale Oil Corporation (AMSO) holds one of three preference right leases granted in 2007 by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management for the research, design, and development of the Piceance Basin oil shale resource in Colorado. AMSO with 50%-partner energy-major Total are invested in the development of an innovative and [...]
ExxonMobil—Upstream Research Company Since 2007, AAI has mobilized drilling equipment to the Upstream Research Company’s (URC) Colony Mine ten times for a variety of tasks. Core drilling underground has been done with AW, BW44, BQ, HQ3, and 6-inch-thin kerf coring tools. Core drilling from the surface has been done with HQ3 and HX coring tools. [...]
