Oil recovery in Utah may get a big boost

Congress is poised to pass a long-sought energy bill that may finally help convert Utah’s vast oil shale and tar sands into billions of barrels of oil.
“We’ve sought this for years, and now it’s finally happening,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Tuesday. “We have more recoverable oil (in the oil shale and tar sands) in Utah and Colorado than there is in all the Middle East . . . more than a trillion barrels.”

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