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Energy
& Minerals Program
The Energy & Minerals Program provides geologic information
to government, industry, and individuals to encourage and aid in
the prudent development of the state's mineral and energy resources;
operates and manages the Utah Core Research Center; and, inventories,
documents, and researches Utah's abundant mineral and energy resources.
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Utah Core Research Center
- Provides workshops, tours, loans of geologic samples, core
slabbing, and facilities to examine geologic cuttings and core,
type oils, coal, and selected surface and underground hand samples
from Utah.
Interactive UCRC Catalog
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Industry Outreach Program - Maintain contact and exchange
information with mining and petroleum operators, promote exploration
and development opportunites, and respond to technical industry
inquiries. For more information, contact Roger Bon, email: rogerbon@utah.gov
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Economic-Resource Evaluations - Investigate the economic
resources of counties, sovereign land tracts, and school trust
lands for county governments and state agencies. Contact Bryce
Tripp for additional information, email: brycetripp@utah.gov
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Industry Co-operatives - Oversee joint cooperative research
with industry. Projects include reservoir characterization evaluations
to improve oil recovery in the Uinta and Paradox basins with
applications nationwide.
Energy & Minerals Program Projects
Provides geologic information to aid in the prudent development
of the state's mineral and energy resources.
- assessing mineral resources on School and Trust Lands Administration
properties,
- calculating coal resources available for future mining in central
Utah coalfields,
- characterizing oil and gas reservoirs in the Uinta Basin,
- modeling reservoirs to enhance oil production in the Paradox
Basin,
- investigating gilsonite resources of Utah,
- preparing an oil-play portfolio for Utah's major oil producing
regions,
- assessing saline resources of Sevier and Great Salt Lakes,
- assessing geothermal resources of Utah,
- modeling natural CO2 reservoirs in the Colorado Plateau region
as analogues for reservoirs to store CO2 emissions,
- assessing geographic variation of coal elements for environmental
impacts of coal combustion.
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