The Department of Energy has sponsored a number of field projects to determine the feasibility of converting the nation's vast coal reserves into a clean efficient energy source via underground coal gasification (UCG). Due to these tests, a significant data base of process information has developed covering a range of coal seams (flat subbituminous, deep flat bituminous and steeply dipping subbituminous) and processing techniques. A summary of all DOE-sponsored tests to data is shown. The development of UCG on a commercial scale requires involvement from both the public and private sectors. However, without detailed process information, accurate assessments of the commercial viability of UCG cannot be determined. To help overcome this problem the DOE has directed the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to develop a UCG data base containing raw and reduced process data from all DOE-sponsored field tests. It is our intent to make the data base available upon request to interested parties, to help them assess the true potential of UCG.

A technique for pyrolyzing biomass materials is disclosed wherein a hot surface is provided having a predetermined temperature which is sufficient to pyrolyze only the surface strata of the biomass material without substantially heating the interior of the biomass material thereby providing a large temperature gradient from the surface strata inwardly of the relatively cool biomass materials. Relative motion and physical contact is produced between the surface strata and the hot surface for a sufficient period of time for ablative pyrolyzation by heat conduction to occur with minimum generation of char.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Richard Crisp, ABC Board Member"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Youngsters and their parents crowd the Oklahoma City County Health Department awaiting pre-school immunization."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Decked out in their western finery, Freddie Johnson and Samatha Yandell became man and wife in a true country wedding last week at Jones."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Decked out in their western finery, Freddie Johnson and Samatha Yandell became man and wife in a true cowboy wedding Friday at Jones."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Family members and friends watched from hay bales as Samantha Yandell and Freddie Johnson were wed at Jones."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Richard Crisp, ABC Board Member"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ivy Jensen, left, president of the Putnam City Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, welcomes guests, from left next to Jensen, Fred Rhodes, assistant principal at Wiley Post Elementary School; Elaine Haselwood, learning disabilities teacher at Hefner and Central Junior High Schools; and Kay Farrell-Stroud, learning disabilities teacher at Rollingwood Elementary School, to the luncheon at Alberta's Tea Room."

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Weekly newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.