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Companies seek federal funds for coal gasification United Press International WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- Texaco Inc. and Houston Natural Gas Corp. announced Monday they were seeking Department of Energy funds for two studies on the feasibility of a 6,000-ton coal gasification facility. The joint project would be located next to Texaco’s oil refinery at Convent, La., on the Mississippi River. < “In addition to providing an assured supply of clean fuel, the coal gasification project would help reduce the growing U.S. dependency on foreign oil,” the companies said. The studies would involve separate proposals for two plants: one would produce 300 million cubic feet a day of a medium BTU-synthesis gas; the second would use synthesis gas to make 25,000 barrels a day of methanol. The medium-BTU gas and methanol could be used as fuels or feedstocks for petrochemical plants. The companies also said the studies would evaluate expanding the facility so that it could produce an addi tional 300 million cubic feet a day of medium-BTU synthesis gas. Texaco and Houston Natural Gas said their joint project was in response to a DOE request for feasibil ity studies for alternate fuel production. The companies said they had selected Ebasco Ser vices Inc. as the engineering contractor to conduct the studies, which will take about 14 months to complete. The project would use the Texaco Coal Gasification Process and utilize coal provided by Houston Natural Gas. Texaco has a 15-ton-a-day pilot project using the process at its Montebello research laboratory near Los Angeles. A 150-ton-a-day plant that employs the pro cess was started up in Germany in 1978. Southern California Edison is developing a 1,000- ton-a-day demonstration facility near Daggett, Calif., to manufacture synthesis gas from coal, and to burn the gas in a combined-cycle power plant operation. Houston Natural Gas’s Ziegler Coal Co. subsidiary has almost one billion tons of coal reserves in southern Illinois. Another subsidiary, Federal Barge Lines, trans ports coal at low cost through terminal and barge facilities on the Mississippi. Keathley, Fowler, Hughes out of water for 31 hours THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1980 Page 13 Students living in Keathley, Fow ler and Hughes dormitories spent almost two days without water. Maintenance foreman Bennie Bil bo said water service stopped in the dorms at about 6 a.m. Monday. “We’ve talked to some of the peo ple living there, and they tell us they first noticed the water going out ab out then,” Bilbo said. “But we didn’t hear about it until 10 p.m. If they’d called us sooner, we could have fixed it a lot earlier.” Water service was restored about 1p.m. on Tuesday. The problem was traced to a hole in a water pipe and a broken water pump. SELL YOUR BOOKS FOR MORE! University Book Stores NORTHGATE 409 UNIVERSITY DR. CULPEPPER PLAZA . 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Hie United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme lourt Wednesday agreed to hear rguments in a dispute concerning fell of four parties must pay por tions of $630,000 in damages warded a Houston woman for the Tongful death of her husband, who 'as killed in a shipyard accident. Minnie L. Fisher filed the suit gain! New Terminal Warehouse orp., a trucking firm, and the own- and driver of a truck which backed ver her husband in a Jan. 22, 1978, icident. Atrial jury determined damages of 00,000 in the case, but said Willie ton’s negligence was 10 percent sponsible for his death, and re try malt -e in (lit duced the judgment to $630,000. The trial court ordered New Ter minal Warehouse Corp. to pay the entire amount of damages, but the Court of Civil Appeals revised that judgment and ordered Galena Park Trucking Co., the trucking firm hired to help unload a shipload of fertilizer, truck owner Leon Stephens and driver Myrko Baladan to pay 40 percent of the damages. The jury had allocated 50 percent of the damages to New Terminal and 40 percent to the other parties, but required New Terminal to pay all the judgment to Mrs. Fisher. The Supreme Court today agreed to hear arguments May 28 on Bala- dan’s appeal concerning whether New Terminal should be required to pay all the damages, or whether a portion of the damages should be paid by the other defendants in the suit. TC claims and deals trailed I questionable eacb' r Nelson- nnings, Reeves by tbe United Press International WASHINGTON — The Federal rade Commission said Wednesday has issued a formal complaint jainst developers who allegedly million worth of question- lie land in West Texas. ^Involved in the complaint are luthwest Sun Sites Inc., Green ley Acres Inc. and Green Valley hes II, all of Encino, Calif., and lir realty company, Porter Realty (cl, Coral Gables, Fla. 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