If Peak Oil comes early we can keep vehicles moving using liquid fuels made from coal and oil shale. |
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Shell Oil is working on a process that would heat the oil shale in place, which could have less effect on the environment. |
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In addition to its well-preserved fossil fish, the Green River Formation is famous for its trona and oil shale. |
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Beneath the main White Stone Band there is an interval of mudstone and bituminous mudstone with a further thicker oil shale. |
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It was also postulated that the slow settling of organic material from the surface produced the bituminous carbonate layers known as oil shale. |
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The biggest problem with mining oil shale comes as a result of heating oil shale rock. |
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Carbonaceous shale, including oil shale, occurs in beds of clayey to silty mudrock from 0.3 to 3 m thick. |
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If prices go high enough, alternative forms of energy exploration and things like oil shale can become viable. |
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I also know a lot about onshore drilling, oil sands, oil shale, shale gas, and the like. |
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He worked as a consultant for Chevron Corporation from 1981 to 2000 in the area of oil shale. |
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In addition, there are large deposits of oil shale in the United States and several other countries. |
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I happen to be a supporter of exploiting the oil that's in Alaska and oil shale that we can exploit in Canada and in the States. |
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Retorting is the main procedure used for recovering oil from oil shale, a plentiful but difficult-to-process and environmentally-hazardous substance. |
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Can we replace rapidly depleting oil reserves with oil shale? |
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Four-fifths of Europe's fossil fuel reserves are coal and other solid fuels such as lignite, peat and oil shale. |
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The development of an economically viable way to extract oil from oil shale would put a ceiling on oil prices and would extend the oil era by decades. |
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Total and IDT will conduct a research and demonstration program for oil shale in Colorado. |
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Mudrock containing high amounts of organic matter in the form of kerogen is known as oil shale. |
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The same goes for Estonia, where oil shale research holds first place in terms of state funding. |
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Kerogen, complex waxy mixture of hydrocarbon compounds that is the primary organic component of oil shale. |
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The production of oil shale and its consumption is very concentrated from a geographical point of view. |
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Now, however, companies which produce oil from oil shale have apparently raised their prices considerably through a cartel agreement. |
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Interactions and kinetic analysis of oil shale semi-coke with cornstalk during co-combustion. |
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Traditionally, oil shale energy content, calorific value, is measured by so-called bomb calorimeter and oil yield in so-called Fischer retort. |
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At the present time, almost half of the Puhajogi River catchment area is situated on the oil shale mining area. |
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Aruvian's research report Analyzing the Global Oil Shale Market analyzes the basics of oil shales to the global oil shale industry. |
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By these methods the critical temperature for thermal cracking and the corresponding changes in permeability of oil shale are determined. |
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Deposits of oil shale are located along the watershed between the rivers Volga and Sviyaga in 9,5 km to the north from Ulyanovsk and can be traced to the border with Tatarstan. |
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This further indicates that the Shengli River oil shale was not significantly altered by diagenesis. |
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Like opencast coal mining, digging up oil shale scars the landscape. |
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It would be foolish now to squander resources on fossil fuel alternatives which are even dirtier than oil, such as liquid fuel manufactured from coal or oil shale. |
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The solution to the above-mentioned problems was found in the application of oil shale combustion in the fluidized bed. |
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But oil shale combustion in the circulating fluidized bed entails further opportunities for development. |
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There are also significant oil shale reserves in the southwest. |
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To understand better the properties of oil shale and the influence of mining conditions on oil shale quality, a general characterisation of Estonian oil shale is first presented. |
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Existing state monopolies would need to be discontinued before accession in such areas as oil shale, electricity supply, and export of scrap metals. |
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The price of oil shale itself, however, has not risen. |
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Our Minister of Economics and Communications, however, has shrugged his shoulders and claimed that there is nothing he can do if oil shale companies have tied the price of oil shale to the price of oil. |
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Burnt shale, particularly oil shale, is produced in a special kiln at temperatures of approximately 800 ÂșC and once ground it has pronounced hydraulic as well as pozzolanic properties. |
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Furthermore, he discredits the argument that fossil fuels are becoming a scarce resource, given the significant oil shale and abundant natural gas reserves. |
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The projects will have a number of goals ranging from understanding the thermal processing of oil shale to determining the combustion characteristics of reservoir oils. |
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Investigation of diffusional phenomenon in the oil shale of Timahdit, Role of sedimented plans. |
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There was a local jetty to export the oil shale, and smaller operations occurred at nearby Bencliff Grit east of Osmington Mills. |
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The time duration of 18 hours was sufficient to completely pyrolysize the oil shale samples. |
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A deposit of cement was formed after an occurrence of oil shale located adjacent to a bed of limestone burned due to natural causes. |
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Origin of variations in organic matter abundance and composition in a lithologically homogeneous maar-type oil shale deposit. |
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Solvation of Jordanian oil shale using different organic solvents by continuous contact mixing. |
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Characterization of Chinese, American and Estonian oil shale semicokes and their sorptive potential. |
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Coal and oil shale as fossil fuels contain various trace elements besides major elements. |
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The kukersite oil shale is composed of the stratigraphically widespread mat-forming cyanobacterium Gloeocapsomorpha prisca Zalessky. |
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With the development of oil shale exploitation, many methods can be used to gain shale oil. |
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Coal and oil shale are paragenetic in the Haishiwan mine of the Yaojie coalfield. |
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Organic petrological study on hydrocarbon generation and expulsion from organic-rich black shale and oil shale. |
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Estonians had no experience in dry distillation and the chemical study of oil shale. |
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In terms of mineral resources, Scotland produces coal, zinc, iron and oil shale. |
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Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. |
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Hydrocarbons are mined from oil sands and oil shale, and potentially extracted from sedimentary methane hydrates. |
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The area where Livingston now sits was historically dominated by oil shale mining, which is evident from the bings which still exist on much of the surrounding landscape. |
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The ultrasonic treatment leads to the leaching of high-density materials from oil shale, which makes its structure incompact and density-depressing. |
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Outcrop of Ordovician kukersite oil shale, northern Estonia. |
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It must be emphasized that desulfurization processes are also essential for the production of fuel oil from oil shale and for oil obtained by the utilization of used tires. |
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In the South-Western US, where oil shale deposits are in sufficient magnitude to the Alberta oil sands, the kerogen can become the world's largest source of ultra-clean fuels. |
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Metastable oil shale ash concrete left in water saturated conditions underground is a potential threat to groundwater quality which is largely unknown at present. |
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Another fuel that has been co-fired with solid wastes is oil shale. |
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Overall, the presentday Nd isotopic compositions show an increase towards comparatively more radiogenic values from the oil shale seams to marl beds. |
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Examples include extra heavy oil, oil sand, and oil shale deposits. |
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The dominant matrix minerals in oil shale and marlstone include silicates. |
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Toluene, n-hexane, methanol, chloroform and carbon disulfide were selected as solvents for extracting hydrocarbons from the decarbonated and silicate-free oil shale. |
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