Friday, September 16, 1977
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Profs predict oil shortage likely
By DAVE TOPLIKAR
The U.S. oil supply will fall short of the projected 1995 demand despite technological increases in enhanced oil production to two University of Kansas professors.
Staff Writer
G. Paul Wilhite and Donald Green, professors of chemical and petroleum engineering, said last week that even new methods of freezing trapped oil would not be enough if there was a five per cent increase in oil consumption a year and a decline in
Wilhelm and Green, co-directors of the
Molecular Biology Research Group,
Floyd W. Preston, professor of chemical
The report, compiled for the Office of Technology Assessment, a research agency of Congress, is based on projections of oil supply and demand and the effects of new processes in enhanced or tertiary oil recovery.
and petroleum engineering, participated this summer in compiling a report to Congress assessing the status of U.S. oil reserves.
THESE PROCESSES employ detergents, steam and heat, or carbon dioxide to draw oil from the ground that normal pressure and water injections, the primary and secondary methods of oil removal, leave behind.
These enhanced oil production methods
essentially double the projected oil supply, according to Green.
Wilhite said the United States had 10 years of supply left, but it would actually last longer because producers would not be able to produce it that fast. If companies do not find large amounts of new oil at off-shore drillsings in new areas, he said, then it is very likely there will be an energy crunch by 1885.
"We're really at the take-off point with these techniques," he said. "They're being tried in the laboratory and in field tests, but the implementation will really come in the '80s and '90s and carry over beyond 2000," he said.
TODAY: JOANNE SZOTGYN will present a dissertation on "The Effects of a Humanistic Educational Training Program on the Attitudes and Behaviors of Students and Teachers," at 8:30 a.m. in 100 Barley, and "American Alliance will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the National Congress of American Indians at 11:10 a.m. in Alcove D of the Kansas Union. Those interested in women's recognition or certification will meet for a brown bag lunch at 11:30 a.m. in the Dean of Women's Office.
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TONIGHT:TONNIS DICK PESCHER will present a dissertation on "General Aviation Interior Noise Study." at 3 p.m. in the Gemini Room of Nichols Hall. PHI CHI THETA business fraternity will sponsor a TGH from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in ANTASYNC CLUB will play Dungeons and Dragons at 7 p.m. in the Jaihawk room of the Kansas Union. KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Potter Lake Pavilion.
TOMORROW: Museum of Natural History will sponsor a SNACK HUNT WORKSHOP from 9 a.m. to noon at the museum. A CATERPILLAR GROW AND CHANGE workshop will be from 10 a.m. to noon in the Museum of Natural History for children $5 to 7 years old. "THE IMPACT OF CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA," will be the topic at a day-long conference sponsored by the African Student Association beginning on May 12th. LAWRENCE SYMPHONY will perform from 1:40 p.m. in the University Theatre.
SUNDAY: LAWRENCE SYMPHONY 2
with the 3 to 6 p.m. in
Theatre Theatre.
Corrections
It was incorrectly reported in the Kansan Tuesday that Paul Ehrlich, biologist at Stanford University, would speak on campus. Paul Ehrlich will speak on campus in October.
HE SAID PRODUCTION in the Middle
of the River. The mountainous
would peak in the known fields at a time that
"All of us that have big appetites can't be all feeding at the same place," he said.
Americans use about six billion barrels of oil a year. About three billion are produced in the United States and about three billion are imported, according to the report.
Wilde and Green agreed the report held little value if it didnt permafone people to cut trees.
Wilhite said a large number of people did not really believe there was a problem. He said he hoped that people would come to believe the information that many people in the field had known for years — that resources are limited.
"There are people who say that the oil companies are hiding oil and just waiting for the price to go up and then all this oil will come out and they'll make big profits and we won't have any trouble getting oil. That's just not true.
"THE WAY WE operate in this country, people will probably begin to believe there is an energy shortage about five years from now," he said.
Wilhite said the purpose of the Oil Tertiary Project at KU was to develop the potential tertiary oil recovery processes for the state of Kansas.
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Funding
of funding annually regardless of whether enrollment sees up or down.
Rawson said the committee was attempting to de-emphasize enrollment figures and instead was trying to find the financial requirements of a university.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, departments such as astronomy have small enrollments but require substantial amounts of money to purchase and maintain necessary equip-
Each Regents university's expenses will be reviewed by the committee, Rawson
said. The Regents schools are KU, Kansas State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University, Kansas Technical Institute and Wichita State University. Other institutions in Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma and North Carolina will be studied so that operating costs can be compared.
According to William Scott, president of the KU chapter of the AAPU, the five states being used for comparison were chosen partly because of similar economic con-
Board of Regents March 1. If approved by the Kansas Legislature, the formula budgeting plan would take affect in the 1980 fiscal school year.
Hawson said the committee planned to present an interim report to the Kansas
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The Tertiary Oil Project has five purposes, according to Wilhite.
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- To provide training for students in enhanced recovery processes.
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There are about 10 graduate students in chemical and petroleum engineering who work on the project each year, according to Wilhite.
He said the project had been going on since July 1974.
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Twelve blank tapes, valued at $29,
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11th Street and West Campus Road,
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