The Tyler Courier-Times from Tyler, Texas • 38

1 1 FEAR THEY'LL BE ABANDONED Nuclear Tests Sec. 4 Tyler SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1061 Desk And Derrick Installation Set i IPAAToTalceUpNayClearmy i II- For Shale Oil Oil Imports Curbs Installation of officers will be; Treasurer, Mrs Bonnie O'Neal, held for the Desk Derrick Club.j L. Hunt Oil Company. I Tyler chapter, Monday at The second year director will p.m.

at the Georgian Room in the be Miss Suzanne Thurman, Pan Blackstone Hotel. American one year direc- The hospitality hour for the oc-itor. Miss Margaret Saleh. Shell; casion will be sponsored by Delta hold-over director, Mrs. Dorothy oil operators that the mandatory oil imports control program is in By MAX B.

SHELTON HOUSTON (AP) There is a growing fear among independent danger of being abandoned. The imports policy committee Drilling Company and will begin Jenkins, Raymond Hedge Co. at 5:30 p.m. A dinner and thei exchange of Christmas gifts of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) meets in Dallas Tuesday to chart new strategyy. By ALEX ADWAN TULSA, Okla.

(UPD The world's best-known authority 'on H-bombs thinks the same energy used in those weapons can also help provide more and cheaper oil. Resumption of underground nil-clear tests may clear the way for experiments to recover shale oil with the heat and energy of a nuclear blast, Dr. Edward Teller said during a recent visit to Tulsa. Teller, best known as the Fa Alvin Hope, president from San Miscible Flood Method Fails To Meel Forecasts Antonio, caiiea the emergency meeting less than 48 hours after the White House last Saturday announced current imports quotas follow and then the installation.UCUIUyiiai JUUGI' New officers for the organiza-( Dinner Se! Tuesday tion and their affiliation in the oil. industry are.

President. Miss The East Texas Geological So-jTommie Smart. Delta Drilling: ciety will have a dinner meeting First vice president, Mrs. Lillian at fi o'clock Tuesday evening at I Dorrell, Fairway Operating Co. the Cedars of Ixbanon Clubhouse.

second vice president. Miss Leo- The speaker will be J. U. na Gardner, Woolf-MaGee Thompson of Schlumberger Well Recording secretary, Mrs. Verna Surveying Corporation of Houston.

Hall, Humble Refining His Mibied will "Application corresponding secretary. Miss of the Continuous Dip-Meter to Igarah Clark, Delta Drilling ttf Type Structures." will continue until a new study ther of the H-Bomb," is also an can be completed by mid-1962. oilman of sorts, was in Tulsa TULSA Miscible flooding, as an oil-recovery tool, isn't living up to Hope blames the delay in visit scientists and officials-of producers initially rosy expecta Jersey Production Research Lab tions. The Oil and Gas Journal says in this week's issue oratory, a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey affiliate.

Teller is a part- Reports from a rash of miscible time consultant for Standard and affiliates. floods started 4 or 5 years ago show that "nearly every project is coming up with oli recoveries Can Changt Mobility A nuclear explosion can be smaller than anticipated." The miscible flood technique used to create high temperature and pressure. This can break up uses liquefied petroleum gas or material underground and rich gas to help sweep out more oil from a reservoir. change the mobility of oil," he termining 1962 oil import quotas on a desire by President Kennedy's administration to press for an expanion of free world trade. "I was chilled extremely by the White House "announcement because you can't keep from tie-ing it with the levelling of all trade barriers," said.

"We had reason to believe a modest reduction imports would be forthcoming but I fear now the odds are in favor of liberalization instead of tightening." The man who is to succeed Hope as IPAA president on Jan. 1 agreed. "Everything out of Washington has pointed to freer trade," said Harold Decker of Houston. Hope and Decker left no doubt Volumetric sweep efficiency in iMiBMiBmihrMi each case has been poor, costs are hi eh, and incentive production allowables are needed, the weekly business magazine says. Experienced miscible flooders glif' '4-sm generally agree that the simple miscible projects (without the help of alternate water and natti ral gas slugs) will recover only slightly more oil in most reser saiov "There has been a lot of theorizing and discussion, but little actual experimentation on the possibility of recovering oil with nuclear blasts, he 1 said.

A 5-kilton nuclear device will be exploded Sunday morning in a salt bed deep beneath the plains of southern New Mexico in another step toward The blast, dubbed "Project Gnome," is expected to shed light on the uses of nuclear blasts f6r a number of purposes, including oil recovery. Teller doubts, how-eve, that Gnome will be an important application to the pr6h-lem of oil production. Experiments have been impossible, of course, during the recCM nuclear testing moratorium, the imports policy committee will consider Congress as its best if'. voirs than the lime-honored water-flood method of secondary recovery. source of relief.

NEW SHELL ETHANE PLANT AT SHERIDAN "From what has come out of -'It's clear now that even such the White House I would say go techniques as alternate water and gas slugs will not boost the oil Oil Spending ing to Congress is our No. 1 answer," Hope said. "I would anticipate a favorable atmosphere Ethane Plant's Operations Start take from miscible projects to anywhere near the 80 or 90 per cert ul'imate recoveries so glowingly pictured five years ago," in Congress. We might work through the, reciprocal Trade Cut Agreements Act or ask for spe thQ Journal says. cific legislation on oil onlv.

There NEW YORK (UPD-The petroleum in the free world cut its combined capital expendi The ethane recovery plant will process ethane-rich gas from both While he discussed his hopes for peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the oil industry, Teller also offered some suggestions about nuclear danger to the industry. Some engineers now say that by psing tf latest techniques to im-nrove the sween. an operator hike the ultimate recovery fiO or 65 per cert of the total. are a number of possibilities bur I would think suggestion of a tariff would be impractical. The very word tariff these days would prejudice some areas." tures by nbout $60" million in 1960, the Chase Manhattan Bank Shell Oil Company's first gas department designed and operated ethane recovery plant went on stream during the last week in November "as an addition to the Shell-operated Sheridan Cycling Plant in Colorado County.

sa'd Friday. others, more conservative, figure the Sheridan and Provident City fields. a The recovered ethane from both Sheridan and Provident City will The bank published a pamphlet 55 to 60 ner cent as about tops. "Onerators now are starting analyzing the oil mdust'-y capiM If Reg. outlays which, it said, totaled, fewer, rather than more, miscible be mixed with propane produced SI0.5 billion for that vear.

In the dnves. and the reasons are purely at Sheridan and Provident City to furnish an additional 2,300 barrels decade from 1951 through 1960, th" petroleum industrv snent SflO economic. "Costs of even the simplest mis Constructed by Fish Engineering Corporation of Houston, the new ethane recovery facilities at Sheridan include three columns-ethane ethane deme-thanizer and ethane still a new cooling tower adjacent to an ex of propaneethane mixture daily to supplement deliveries of 2,300 billion on capital outlay, of which' $52 billion was spent for equip cible projects are much higher hmi for a witer flood. IPG in barrels of propane each day, rtjlllti, COMPACT so right, you can't go, wrong! You don't even have to decide between gold or silver tones because Van Cleef Arpels combined them. Filled and refilkbk with Revlon the complete make-up.

3.75 plus tax. ment made in the United States and new facilities in this country. which began in April to Dows pipeline at Sheridan for further inese expenditures resulted isting Sheridan cooling tower; two new 750-horsepower compressors roughly in doubling crude oil pro delivery to Dow if reeport plant. The ethane-rich gas from Provi "olnme is expensive, and so is gas." If future projects get sufficient production allowables from the various state regulatory agencies, the miscible method would become one of the most commonly nced tools of recovery. If not, it to handle refrigeration and prod duction and consumption of pe 1 RDoiitifiilrinvinlito flVAl RnAStfirF dent City is transported to Sheri luct delivery; a new' direct fired troleum products in the free heater; heat exchangers; con dan via a recently completed pipe line of Shell Pipe Line Corpora world.

The $90 billion outlays increased fixed assrts of te industry 2.8 times. The gross invest tion. Additional compressor horse' denscrs; re-boilers, and permanent pumping facilities to deliver propane to Dow Chemical Com will "tnTnate. the Journal says. WiHely applied, Miscible drive I power was installed at Provident City to move the ethane-rich gas pany's pipeline.

would mean adding billions of bar- throueh the pipeline. At Sheridan, the Provident City ment in fixed assets of the oil industry now is about $105 billion, $57.8 billion of this invthe United States." Of the $46.8 billion invested during the decade in oil and gas facilities inthe free world outside the UnitedTStates. $17 billion was etliane-rich stream joins a similar Ms to U. S. oil reserves.

A recent by one company concludes thnt I'se of the propane slug methodwhere it could be apnlied in existing fields could add 19 billion barrels to the nation's oil reserves. In addition, modifications were made to the existing Sheridan utility system generators, steam, water and electricity to permit the new ethane, unit lo use them 1 without replacement. ethane-rich stream where both streams enter the ethane-recovery plant. furnished By American companies. This amount is almost equal to In 1960, America companies had I Castas thick as two silver dollars, magnesium-wed alloy conducts heat fast, uniformly the per- feet way to get oven flavor from top burner 'v Ulliolik provides a lifetime of cooking pleasure feCSi) diatet hit likt W.

Ordiwry soap and Magnalite eooka an oven, from water keeps Mag- beautifully on low very part of 'i Hming heat settings-utensil -not from self basting. preciously. saves fuel bills, bottom only. roughly a 55 per cent interest in all foreign crude nil runs and a HURRY HURRY HURRY 42 per cent interest in all foreign one-third of all the oil which has been produced in theU. S.

Some ooerators feel the real future of miscible drive is in tertiary recovery rather than a secondary recovery that is, skimming off a third crop of oil after water flooding has been used. The miscible drive is sweeping virtually 100 per cent of the crude etmery production. NEW MISSIONARIES NAMED NEW YORK (AP) The South ern Baptist Foreign Mission Board has appointed 10 new mis sionaries, bringing the total to HARDWARE and SEED 1 Corner Elm and Fannin LY 4-7811 I 1,545 now working in 47 foreicn from thp parts of the reservoir contacted by the LPG or rich gas. But it is contacting a much smaller portion of the reservoir than had been expected. lands.

The board has adopted a 1962 budget of $13.2 million. NlifAliiSSetaWBMilEtES 6)B HARDWARE and SEED TO BE GIVEN AWAY BY COLLEGE CLEANERS fresh floral beauty for your home year 'round! RM A ENT flowers and foliage 23il IE REGISTER AT ANY OF THE 15 LOCATIONS AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WISH! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY! 'j ISTAMPS I 1 (if (I (5 ASM These are GIVEN AT. ALL LOCATIONS Famous Schwinn Bikes With Hand Brakes and Other Fine Features! EXCLUSIVE IN TYLER AT Pol NOW 15 em learners Texoi Most Complete FAVORITE GARDEN FLOWERS RARE, EXOTIC BLOSSOMS FOLIAGE POTTED PLANTS FRUITS and Vegetables EVERY SIZE and COLOR Corner Elm and Fannin Phone LY-4-7811 1 Locations Good Grooming To Sry You Headquarters.