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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oil Shale:  A Solution to the Liquid Fuel Dilemma, ACS Symposium Series 1032, American Chemical Society 2010 Authors: Alan K. Burnham and Roger L. Day (American Shale Oil, LLC), Michael P. Hardy [...]

Proceedings of the U.S. Bureau of Mines Technology Transfer Seminar, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1987 (IC-9141) Authors: E. E. Thimons (USBM) and C. E. Brechtel (AAI) Providing adequate airflow [...]

Tunnelling ’91, London, England, Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, 14–18 April 1991 Authors: M. P. Hardy, A. M. Richardson, M. Lin, and J. F. T. Agapito (AAI) In recent years, [...]

ASCE Convention, Portland, Oregon, 15 April 1990 Authors: M. Hardy (AAI) and G. Hocking (Dames & Moore) Rock mechanics design criteria for temperatures, opening stability, nuclide transport, [...]

23rd U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, University of California Berkeley, California, 25–28 August 1982 Authors: C. M. St. John (Consultant), and M. P. Hardy (AAI) The paper discusses an approach [...]

18th U.S. Oil Shale Symposium, Grand Junction, Colorado, April 1985 Author: T. W. Gulliver (AAI) Dissolution of salts in the Piceance Creek Basin oil shales has lead to considerable collapse. [...]

19th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Reno, Nevada, 1–3 May 1978 Authors: M. P. Hardy and J. F. T. Agapito (AAI), and J. Page (Atlantic Richfield Company) The results of overcore stress [...]