oil shale resources

  • Oil Shale | National Geographic Society

    Jul 01, 2022· Oil shale is a sedimentary rock. As it reaches its oil window, oil shale releases a liquid known as shale oil. Oil shale is the rock from which shale oil is extracted. Shale oil is similar to petroleum, and can be refined into many different substances, including diesel fuel, gasoline, and liquid petroleum gas ( LPG ).

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  • USGS Fact Sheet 2015–3005: In-Place Oil Shale Resources of the …

    Of the 191.7 billion barrels of Mahogany zone oil in-place in the Piceance Basin, 32.3 percent (61.8 billion barrels) is associated with oil shale yielding at least 25 gallons of oil per ton (GPT) of rock processed, is covered by overburden 1,000 feet thick or less, and has a stripping ratio of less than 10.

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  • Oil Shale | U.S. Geological Survey

    The USGS Energy Resources Program has studied oil shale resources of the United States, with a significant effort on the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. This formation contains the largest oil shale deposits in the world. Oil shale, despite the name, does not actually contain oil, but is a precursor of oil that is converted …

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  • Geology and Resources of Some World Oil-Shale Deposits

    Jan 01, 2003· The world's oil shale resources are estimated to be equivalent to more than 2.9 trillion barrels of oil (one barrel = 0.159 m 3 ), and these resources are distributed widely across the world [1 ...

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