Dear kongulu-ga
Between 1958 and 1975 the US Government establish the ‘Plowshare
Programme.’ - peaceful use of nuclear explosions for industrial
applications. It conducted 27 nuclear explosive tests comprising 35
individual detonations. There were proposed tests into the feasibility
of oil recovery using a nuclear explosive detonation. A 41 page report
on the project appears at:
http://www.osti.gov/osti/opennet/plowshar.pdf
An article on the project appears at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A685109
Clips from a film made of the Plowshare project can be downloaded at
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/0800035/default.htm
Described as ‘Plowshare offshoot’, there were experiments on
converting oil shale to oil by subjecting it to high temperatures and
high pressures by nuclear devices.
See http://www.llnl.gov/str/January01/Batzel3.html
An additional article describing the technique appears at
http://www.libertyhaven.com/regulationandpropertyrights/tradeandinternationaleconomics/rolenuclear.shtml
Further references to this project may be found under the search
strategy below.
answerfinder-ga
Search strategy
explosion oil "nuclear bomb" seismic which led me to find Plowshare
project.
plowshare oil nuclear
://www.google.com/search?q=plowshare+oil+nuclear&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&start=10&sa=N |
Request for Answer Clarification by
kongulu-ga
on
26 Jan 2003 09:29 PST
Dear Answerfinder,
Thank you for your response.
I forgot about the oil shale conversion. I am actually looking for an
document discussing the possibility of using Nuclear stimulation to
directly enhance the recovery of oil, not to convert it from oil shale
to oil. (I do not believe Plowshare had this DIRECT CONVERSION
objective, but I read through the docs a few years ago, so I might be
in error.)
If you can help me with this I will increase the tip amount to equal
what I would pay for a new question+tip. If you can't I will accept
your current answer and repost because my question was not worded
properly. Please advise.
Thank you
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Clarification of Answer by
answerfinder-ga
on
26 Jan 2003 09:42 PST
There is reference in Plowshare to the melting of tar sand to extract
oil is within your definition? If so I will direct you towards it. If
not, I shall try and continue with the question.
answerfinder-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
kongulu-ga
on
26 Jan 2003 10:02 PST
The melting of tar sand is a conversion. I am looking for something
like pressure to force oil up to the surface.
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Clarification of Answer by
answerfinder-ga
on
26 Jan 2003 10:14 PST
Dear kongulu-ga
I regret that you will have to re-post this question. Another
reseracher may be more successful. There is evidence that the Russians
had a similar project but I was unable to find good documentary
evidence of the experiments. The following articles make reference to
the tests but there is no hard information.
Extraction of oil carried out at 21 locations.
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/97summer/fukuda.html
“The Soviet Union conducted 124 PNEs between 1965 and 1988 in various
parts of the Soviet Union. PNEs were conducted for seismic sounding,
increasing oil and gas production, creating underground reservoirs,
shutting down oil gushers, digging a canal, building dams and water
reservoirs, crushing ore deposits, burying biologically hazardous
industrial waste, and stopping gas escaping from a coal mine.”
http://archive.greenpeace.org/~comms/nukes/ctbt/upjun19b.html
“The Russians detonated 124 PNEs in all, Nordyke says, for many ends:
to move earth, to stimulate fossil-fuel production, to blow out oil
and gas fires, to create underground cavities for storing fossil fuels
and to dispose of toxic waste. “
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/brahmaputra/scientificamerican.htm
answerfinder-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
answerfinder-ga
on
27 Jan 2003 00:41 PST
Thanks for the tip kongulu-ga.
answerfinder-ga
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