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Piceance Basin Oil Shale and Nahcolite Resources Databases

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2010
Release Date
2010

Citation

United States Geological Survey, 2010, Piceance Basin Oil Shale and Nahcolite Resources Databases: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14NMHVR.

Summary

A detailed description of the methodology employed to perform a geology-based assessment of in-place oil shale and nahcolite resources in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado is presented here. Considerable advancements in computer and database technology since the previous oil shale assessment in 1989 provided the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment team with new tools to convert legacy data, store and manipulate new data, perform calculations, and quantify, report, and display the assessment results. Relational database and geographic information systems (GIS) software were used seamlessly to streamline the storage and manipulation of the data. A deterministic spatial interpolation method, the Radial Basis Function (RBF), [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey - CERSC Data Management Services Project
Originator :
United States Geological Survey
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey - CERSC Data Management Services Project
Publisher :
US Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey, GS ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Central Energy Resources Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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CO_Piceance_db.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		10.26 KB application/fgdc+xml
Colorado Boreholes and Tops Fieldname Descriptions.txt 9.03 KB text/plain
Colorado Nahcolite Resources Fieldnames.txt 1 KB text/plain
Colorado Oil Shale Resources Fieldname Descriptions.txt 5.24 KB text/plain
COPLATOS.zip 19.96 MB application/zip
COPLAT_NAHC.zip 11.14 MB application/zip
Explanation of main form and subform calculations.txt 1,008 Bytes text/plain
OPEN_FIRST.txt 294 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

Increasing energy demand, changing economics, new technology, and geopolitical issues have spurred renewed interest in other energy alternatives such as oil shale, heavy oil, and tar sands. The USGS Energy Resources Program has previously conducted extensive field and geologic research on these commodities and is initiating an effort to inventory and make these important legacy information assets accessible to the public, land managers, and other decision-makers. In addition, the Energy Program is scoping the geologic, technical, economic, and environmental factors controlling the production and use of these energy sources and will provide recommendations for future research in order to meet the energy needs of the United States.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P14NMHVR

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