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.
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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.
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icident.
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00,000 in the case, but said Willie
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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
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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.
Last month the agency got a tern-
restraining order from a fed-
court which created an escrow
id so that persons still paying on
ir land would be protected in the
fent refunds are later ordered.
The complaint alleges that the
id was represented as a good in-
itihent — usable for home sites,
is or ranches — when in reality
ter and utility costs would be pro-
— hitively high, if available at all.
The development covered 40,000
,|.res in Culberson and Jeff Davis
7 // illnties '
Sales amounted to $18 million plus
test, with about $10 million still
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