Atlantic Richfield Inc

The research in this paper was performed in partial fulfillment of a Ph.D dissertation completed by the senior author at the University of Q)lorado-Boulder. Financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Atlantic Richfield Foundation, Inc., and the University of Colorado Department of Geological Sciences are gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank A1 Burnham and Bill Miller of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for providing samples of L2 retorted oil shale. 

The first commercial facilities were built on techniques developed by Oronite (now Chevron) and Rumble-Oil Subsequently, the best known processes were those of Chevron, Phillips, which is no longer commercialized, Amoco, Esso, known by the designation of Isofining, and Antar HRI (Hydrocarbon Research Inc.). The latest have been proposed by Krupp, Maruzen and ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Co.). 

American Cyanamid Co., 3) Amoco Production Co., 4) Atlantic Richfield Co., 5) BASF-Wyandotte Co., 6) British Petroleum Co., England, 7). Calgon Corp., 8) Cities Service Oil Co., 9) Continental Oil Co., 10) Ethyl Corp., 11) Exxon Production Research Co., 12) Getty Oil Co., 13) Gulf Research and Development Co., 14) Marathop Oil Co., 15) Mobil Research and Development Co., 16) Nalco Chemical Co., 17) Phillips Petroleum Co., 18) Shell Development Co., 19) Standard Oil of Ohio Co., 20) Stepan Chemical Co., 21) Sun Oil Chemical Co., 22) Texaco Inc., 23) Union Carbide Corp., 24) Union Oil Co., 25) Westvaco Inc., 26) Witco Chemical Co., and the University of Florida. 

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