2522.     ---------------.  [OIL AND GAS JOURNAL.]  Survey of Sites for Synthetic Fuels Plants.  Vol. 47, No. 9, 1948, pp. 42-43.

                    Nation-wide survey of possible sites for erecting synthetic liquid-fuels plants was begun recently with award by the Army’s Engineer Corps of a contract to the firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc., to make sample studies in western Kentucky, northwestern Colorado, and southeastern Texas.  These areas were selected because they have large known supplies of coal, oil shale, and natural gas.  the study will be completed in 4-6 mo., and may be continued in other areas of the country where the basic raw materials are known to exist.  The survey is not intended to designate specific sites for plants or determine the total coal, natural-gas, and oil-shale reserves of the United States, but merely to determine general areas where the requirements for 1 or more plants can be met.