Oil Shale RD&D Program Status
August 7, 2008
Jim Koffer
Technology Deployment Engineer
Chevron Corp.
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Piceance Basin Regional Map
Chevron Oil Shale
RD&D Lease
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What’s going on at our RD&D Site?
• Lease awarded January 2007
• Construction on location began 7/11/07
• Moved in drilling rig 11/28/07
• Cored Green River Formation 786-2619’ (98%
recovery)
• Ran wireline logs
• Set packer in well, came back this Spring to do
hydrology testing. Results were used to design
hydrology test wells.
• Cores now being studied in various laboratories
• Next phase is to drill hydrology test wells, which has
recently started.
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Wireline Log Near Proposed Lease
R8
Leached
Zone
A Groove
Mahogany Zone
B Groove
R6
R5
R4,3
Csg
R2
Garden Gulch &
Douglas Creek
Members
Blue mkr
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TD
R1
R0
Orange mkr
500
feet
Set
packer
here
Lower
Aquifer
Green River
Formation
Csg
Saline
Zone
Initial
Test
Core
Parachute Creek Member
Uinta Formation
Upper
Aquifer
(SLAPCO Fed 1-5-397)
Oil Shale Coring Operations
December 2007
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Oil Shale Core
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2004
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2005
2006
2007
Groundwater
monitoring, Reservoir
modeling, Frac testing
Hydrology tests
Plans & Permits
Coring & logging
Lease awarded
Environmental Assessment
BLM suitability notification
Plan of Operations
Start Oil Shale PEIS
Applications for oil shale leases
BLM proposes oil shale leasing
Preliminary Project Timeline
Research & Field Testing
2008
Commercial
Decision
Plan of Ops
2009
2010
Experimental
Pilot Work
Pilot
Testing
20112012
20132015
2016