Presentations

Utah oil shale samples.

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)

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.

PowerPoint (ppt - 17MB)

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 (2.7MB)

Utah Oil Shale – what and where is it, how much is there, and why is it important?

Dave Tabet and Michael Vanden Berg, Utah Geological Survey
Presented at the SPE/UGA Oil Shale Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT 2006.

PowerPoint (ppt - 8.5MB)

Publications

	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: Taking another look at Utah's tar sand resources, (pdf) January 2007, v.39, no.1.

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.

Tar-sand resources of the Uinta Basin, Utah: a catalog of deposits, (pdf - 6MB)
Utah Geological Survey Open-file Report 335, 1996

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

Links

• Oil Shale and Tar Sands Leasing Programmatic EIS Information Center

• U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale

• U.S. Department of Energy Oil Shale Activities

• RAND Corporation – Oil Shale Development in the United States

• Utah Heavy Oil Center – University of Utah

• 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

• Oil Shale Exploration Company

• Tell Ertl Oil Shale Repository Database – Colorado School of Mines

• Shell's Mahogany Oil Shale Research Project

• U.S. Department of Energy - Naval Petroleum Reserve and Oil Shale Activities Publications