"Uinta Basin oil shale from the Hells Hole Canyon outcrop in eastern Utah has been retorted by both the Paraho Direct Heated (DH) and Union ""B"" processes for the White River Shale Project. Despite wide variation in the shale grades respectively retorted and the known retort differences, the raw shale oil products appeared to be quite similar both physically and chemically. Comparisons with existing data on Piceance Basin Colorado shale oil from these two processes are also quite similar. The one unexpected difference was the 30°F (-1°C) pour point for the Utah Union ""B"" oil. Potential economic advantages could exist as far as pipelineability if this anomaly is a naturally occurring phenomenon."