KU profs milk old oil wells for energy answers
By ROB HAGAN
Staff Writer
New research at the University of Kansas of old oil wells could boost the U.S. oil reserves for the next decade.
Don Green, professor of chemical and production engineering, is working with Paul Willhite, professor of chemical and production engineering, on a $275,230 program for tertiary oil recovery.
Tertiary oil recovery is the third attempt to find oil in a well that has produced before, Green said. The first and second drillings bring to the surface only about one-third of the possible oil.
"Right now we are researching ways to develop
Green and Willibrit served a year and a half in 1978-77 as technical consultants for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, searching for potential oil recovery methods.
tertianl oil recovery," Green said. "If we don't, we walk off and leave about 300 billion barrels of oil in the
"All major oil companies and a few universities have tried to develop this new technology."
The funds for the research come from the State of Kansas which contributes $231,730; the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, $240,000; the State of Kentucky, $14,000; and Phillips Petroleum Fellowship, $5,500.
There are several methods that Green and his research team are trying to develop. Green said it might be three or four years before the program was ready to be tested in the field.
One method, Green said, is to put detergent down the shaft of the well, which washes the oil out of the rock just as dirt washes out of clothes. However, the detergent is expensive.
Another method is to burn charcoal in the well, which eliminates the light oil residue and which is then used as fuel for a furnace.
"The process is like heating up molasses; it moves a lot easier when it's hot," Green said.
The objectives of the research, Green said, is to supply small oil companies, including some in Kansas, with the technology that they need but cannot afford.
Even with both these methods, he said, there is no universal terteryth method of extracting oil.
"The project is an ongoing process," he said. "If it is successful, we can start to use it in the late 1980s or early 1990s."
The consumption of oil in America today, Green said, is about 16 million barrels a day. Production is eight million barrels a day. Even when the Alaska pipeline will send oil south, he said, the country will be producing only four million barrels a day in 1995.
"The gap of what we are producing and what we're using is getting larger and larger," Green said.
Tertiary oil recovery could keep the country at a level of production about eight million barrels a day.
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"We should have oil well into the next century," Green said.
"I think the energy crisis," Green said, "is very real. We've got to build up our energy capabilities in every area. If we use solar and thermal energy as alternates, we can make it."
KANSAN
Albaugh the tertiary oil recovery project could allow the states to more oil, Green said, it will not soothe energy stocks.
Vol. 88, No.90
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday February 10,1978
Leben asks for removal of KU athletic director
By MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
A letter asking for the removal of athletic director Clyde Walker has been sent to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes by student body president Steven Leben.
Officials in the chancellor's office confirmed yesterday that the letter had been received but said the chancellor was not available for comment.
Walker said last night that he had not heard anything but said he did he did not have any comment yet.
Leben had announced at Wednesday's
meeting that he had delivered
the letter that day.
'THE RELATIONSHIP with Clyde
was better than being less than
good at all trades. 'Tesla said.
A proposal for reserve student seating at basketball games and a recent refusal by the athletic department to let the Senate distribute printed literature at a basketball game was presented. The Walker-Senate dealings that indicated the relationship's problems, Leben said.
Leben told the senators that he had expressed his opinion about the Senate's clashes with Walker during the past year in a column that ran in yesterday's Kauai.
LEBEN SAID both the letter to Dykes and the column suggested that Walker was a burden to the University and should be removed.
Leben urged senators to write similar letters to the chancellor and voice their concern.
Several student leaders agreed with oben's assessment of the relationship between students and teachers.
Mike Harper, StudEx chairman, said he thought Leben was correctly representing students in the study institution to look at the problem. He said that after talking with students in the past few weeks during his campaign for student loan, he found a negative attitude toward Walker.
"THERE AREN'T many that have a good opinion of Walker," Harper said.
Former student body president Tedde
Tashhef said she was not surprised by Leben's letter.
"It's nothing startling," Tasheff said.
"Steve's just fed up."
Tashef said that during her term of office she had probably reached the point of frustration with Walker that Leben apologized for not knowing why she had not taken similar action.
Jill Grubaugh, Senate Elections Committee chairman, said she thought Leben had been pushed as far as he could in the conflict with Walker.
The move to make Walker listen to student opinion, Brumbaugh said, has "pretty much been a one-man job" by Leben. She said she did not think he would ask anyone else to put their neck on the line in the situation.
CHRIS CALDWELL, former Senate treasurer, said he thought Lebens's letter to Dykes and the column that appeared in the Kansan were designed to raise students' consciousness about the situation with Walker.
See WALKER page five
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
CIA. FBI actions limited
The proposal, which is expected to be subjected to months of hearings and debate, was issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to create a more effective program.
WASHINGTON—In an attempt to place the FBI and the CIA under new guidelines, a Senate committee issued a proposal yesterday that would legally prohibit the use of assassinations and terrorism and would prohibit CIA efforts to overthrow what were called "democratic" governments.
Note threatens more KC fires
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Kansas City officials said they were taking seriously a note they found at the scene of an apparent arson early yesterday morning.
The note, which fireman found on the front door of a three-story abandoned apartment building that had apparently been set fire, read, "Notice." The next day, the firemen found a new fire alarm.
STP fined for false advertising
WASHINGTON—The largest legal settlement for false advertising was announced yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission. STP Corp, was fined $500,000 after statements that its oil additive reduced oil consumption by as much as 20 percent.
Under a court settlement, STP agreed to publish notices in newspapers and magazines to inform the public that the road tests on which it based its advertising were unreliable. Several notices are scheduled to appear today. See story page two.
Vote shows member opposition
After the vote of no confidence, the union's bargaining council in Washington attentively scheduled a meeting or today to consider whether to send the committee a response.
WASHINGTON—A contract that would settle the 66-day-old United Mine Workers strike was rejected by the president of all 22 local units in Illinois.
ISRAEL-I—Israel is asking its American supporters to lobby against U.S. weapons sales to Egypt as a response to President Anwar Sadat's trip to Washington and his request for U.S. weapons support.
Meanwhile, coal stocklies around the country continued to dwindle. Indiana and West Virginia are currently under energy emergency measures.
Israel condemns arms sales
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said Wednesday that U.S. weapons sales to Egypt would be a very negative development in the Middle East peace process. See story page two.
Begin
Locally...
One of five defendants in a libel suit brought by Dante G. Scarpelli, a former pathology department chairman at the University of Kansas Medical Center, testified yesterday that an apparent attempt to Scarpelli to remove him from the school in 1974 had been blocked by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. The defendant was then allowed to repeat a course in which he had received an unsatisfactory grade.
Green statue awaits ruling from society
By BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
University officials are uncertain as to whether they must renomify the Kansas State Historical Society about plans to move the Jimmy Green statue if they are to comply with the 1977 Kansas State Preservation Act.
Julie Wortman, architectural historian for the society, said yesterday that new legislation required the University to get approval from the society to move the
Old Green Hall is listed in the National Register of Historical Places, Wortman said, and comes under the regulations of the preservation act. In addition, the statue itself is listed as part of the building's historical significance.
THE PRESERVATION act provides protection against tampering by state or local groups for historical sites listed in the register.
Upon notification of a change at a registered site, the society can veto the change if it is decided that tampering is not in the state's best interest. Wortman said.
Last February, Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, sent a letter to the society in compliance with the Federal Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which provides protection for historical sites against any federal action or tampering.
If a group disagrees with the society, the issue will go to a district court.
LUCAS SAID the letter was notification of
See GREEN page five
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
The almost completed Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence bring the silent countrystyle close to drivers on the four-lane road between Lawrence and Kansas City, Fading along the highway for more than a mile.
Solitude
Senators kill bill allowing union liquor
By DIRCK STEIMEL Staff Writer
Staff Writer
TOPEKA- Temperance struck another blower yesterday when the Kansas Senate killed a bill that would allow liquor in state university student unions.
"Well, chalk up another one for the Rev. Tavior." one sonner said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, leader of the Kansas, United Dry Forces, led the campaign against the Senate bill that would have allowed liquor at private parties in the Kansas Union and the unions of the five other state Kansas universities.
THE BILL WAS defeated by a standing vote of 19-11 in the Senate.
state sen. John Crofto, R-Cedar Point, who carried the bill to the Senate floor, said the liquor bill was mainly needed for dinner parties held in the student unions.
"It is not a bill that would increase alcohol consumption," Crofto said. "It simply recognizes the fact that people do have cocktail parties."
Because of the law that prohibits liquor on state-owned property, Croplo said, groups have to have their pre-dimer social hours here and about 20 percent do not return.
However, State Sen. John Vermilion,
R-Independence, argued against permitting
liquor on state-owned property and against
fracking. Some were intended mainly for
study activities.
"DO YOU THINK drinking hard liquor helps their education, their seeking of work, their life?"
State Sen. Donn Everett, R-Manhattan,
countered what he called Vermillion's
puritan attitude, saying that there was a lot
of support in the vicinity of Kansas State
University.
"You can get a drink within a three-iron shot of the union, and two wood shots would get you to Aggieville, where you're surrounded by beer and drinks," Everett
State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, asked Croof whether the University of Kansas had requested this student union liquor bill.
CROFOFT SAID that no university had requested that he sponsor the bill and that both KU and K-State had remained neutral on the bill. Crofoft said he could not remember who had requested that he sponsor the liquor bill.
State Sen. Joseph Norvell, D-Hays, said the student union liquor bill would only increase alcoholism and the threat of drunken drivers on Kansas roads.
However, Crofoot said that the student union liquor bill would reduce the threat of drunken drivers because people would not be able to drink at dinner—social have to be the unions for dinner.
Frank Burge, manager of the Kansas Union, told the Senate Federal and State Affairs committee last week that he had no objections to the bill.
40 years broadens SUA's goals
By LINDA FINESTONE
Staff Writer
In 1938, with a $200 budget, SUA was born.
But the SUA, which celebrated its 40th birthday last night, has since undergone a metamorphosis.
Student Union Activities, a division of the Kansas Union run by students, plans concerts, lectures, films, travel and other recreational activities for KU students.
Frank Burge, who has been director of the Union for 25 years, said change and growth in programming and in SUA's budget had marked SUA's history.
"THEERE BEEN a mushrooming in activities hat has spread into so many things." Burge said. "The programming is broad, diverse and cultural and educational than just social."
More than 200 people, including those recognized for their work in SUA this year.
Union staff members and members of the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board, last night listened to the band Hot Foot and shared birthday cake and beer in the Hawk's Nest of the Union in honor of SUA's 40th anniversary.
This year's SUA budget, allocated by the Memorial Corporation Board, is $25,000, compared with that $200 starting budget. The number of activities SUA now sponsors has grown as large in numbers as it has in dollars.
the years had been the shift from big dances to big concerts.
Katherine Giele, assistant director of the in charge of programming, said one of her biggest challenges was
BESIDES HOMECOMING dances, SUA sponsored dances in the 1940s and 1950s with musicians like Woody Herman and Harry James.
Today, SUA operates through nine committees in areas of films, travel, fine arts, forums, Free University, indoor recreation, outdoor recreation, public relations and special events. Kim Herren, a professor at the 400 people were involved in SUA's planning.
A sore spot in SUA's history was in May 1948, when Lawrence Woodruff, then dean of men, suspended USA and ordered its committees closed indefinitely.
A special "Sweetheart Swing" dance in 1947 featured a "most datable male" contest, and at a Rumpin Prom that year students selected a Cinderella by fitting a woman student with a glass slipper, which was made by chemistry students.
Woodruff took the action because some cast members of "College Daze," an all-student musical comedy review, had participated in the show although their grades were too low to meet University scholastic requirements.
WOODRUFF REINSTATED SUA in
September of that year, however.
SUA continued to sponsor novelty dances in the 50s but started adding more committees and expanded the types of clubs and activities students could find on campus.
In 1984 SUA operated a crafts shop in the Union where students could use power equipment and hand tools to open a opened darkroom facilities that year, and the poetry hour series and an SUA travel bureau were among new programs started during that time.
Programming seemed to have taken a giant leap in the 1980s. Through the SUA Featured Speakers series, students got the opportunity to hear such personalities as William O. Douglas in 1984, who was then an associate Supreme Court Justice.
See SUA page three