Uinta Basin Railway still in the works

[kgbw49]

Mostly true. Most of that 300 billion is kerogen. Yet there is oil being extracted from the Uinta Basin, though not yet on the scale of the Bakken, and there is more that could be produced. 

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-oil-and-gas-resources-utah

Here is a dated article about the potential future resources in the basins straddling the Utah-Wyoming-Colorado borders. Not yet economical as oil prices are too low right now, but one also has to think that American innovation will eventually figure out a way to lower the extraction cost. Time will tell.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/american-oil-find-holds-oil-opec/story?id=17536852

 

 

[MidlandMike]

The Uinta and Bakken are hardly comparable.  The Bakken is actually liquid oil that is produced thru now common lateral drilling and fracking.  The Uinta reserves are kerogen which needs to be mined or extracted by some other intensive process, and then cooked to produce some usable product.

[kgbw49]

Per this site, there are supposed to be about 300 billion barrels of oil in the shale in Utah. Read down to the fourth paragraph. For comparison, the Bakken has been estimated at between 4.4 billion and 11.4 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil on a field estimated at 24 billion barrels.

https://geology.utah.gov/resources/energy/oil-shale/

[Flintlock76]

That robot voice sounds like "you-it-tah."  Is the robot right?

[Electroliner 1935]

Flintlock76

OK, I just have to know, HOW do you pronounce "Uinta?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckDiVXqsv4

[charlie hebdo]

For starters, the name is the Uintah Railway. It ceased operations in 1939.

[Erik_Mag]

I've heard you-EEN-tah from my brother-in-law in Colorado. He's a recent transplant from the Northeast, so I can't guarantee he pronounced it correctly.

[Flintlock76]

OK, I just have to know, HOW do you pronounce "Uinta?"

Is it "you-in-ta"  or "ween-ta?"  Or something else?

As the poet Stephen Vincent Benet' once said, "I've fallen in love with American names..."

Even the ones I can't figure out!

[BOB WITHORN]

Just read in RT&S, that the Utah coalition selected Drexel Hamilton to finance and build the new railroad. They are partnered with Rio Grande Pacific to operate it when done.  Thought this was dead and gone. Seems I read somewhere that the Basin holds more oil than anywhere else?  Should be interesting.