• Oil shale in Morocco represents a significant potential resource. The ten known oil shale deposits in Morocco contain over 53.381 billion barrels (8.4869×10^9 m3)...
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    environment, oil shales are classified as marine, lacustrine and terrestrial oil shales. Oil shales differ from oil-bearing shales, shale deposits that contain...
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  • Oil shale reserves refers to oil shale resources that are economically recoverable under current economic conditions and technological abilities. Oil...
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    The oil shale industry is an industry of mining and processing of oil shale—a fine-grained sedimentary rock, containing significant amounts of kerogen...
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    Shale oil extraction is an industrial process for unconventional oil production. This process converts kerogen in oil shale into shale oil by pyrolysis...
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  • Oil shale economics deals with the economic feasibility of oil shale extraction and processing. Although usually oil shale economics is understood as shale...
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    of oil shale in Estonia, both of which are sedimentary rocks laid down during the Ordovician geologic period. Graptolitic argillite is the larger oil shale...
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  • Timahdit oil shale deposit is an oil shale deposit located about 240 kilometres (150 mi) southeast of Rabat near Timahdite, Fès-Meknès, Morocco. It is the...
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  • complete in 2008. Ten known oil shale deposits in Morocco account more than 8.4869×10^9 m3 (53.381 Gbbl) of shale oil. Although Moroccan oil shale has been...
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    and copper deposits, and oil-shale development. Moroccan economic policies brought macroeconomic stability to the country in the early 1990s but did not...
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  • Xtract Resources (redirect from Xtract Oil)
    in Xtract Oil Limitedand 70% stake in Xtract Energy (Oil Shale) Morocco S.A. to Global Oil Shale Group Limited in exchange of the strategic stake in that...
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    The history of the oil shale industry started in ancient times. The modern industrial use of oil shale for oil extraction dates to the mid-19th century...
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    to be the operator. Oil shale resources were red in the Safaga-Quseir area of the Eastern Desert in the 1940s. The oil shale in the Red Sea area could...
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    Galoter process (category Oil shale in Estonia)
    Petroter) is a shale oil extraction technology for the production of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil. In this process, the oil shale is decomposed...
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  • Mountain West Energy (category Oil shale companies of the United States)
    Tarfaya oil shale deposit of Morocco. San Leon signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Office of Hydrocarbon and Mining of Morocco on the...
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  • San Leon Energy (category Oil companies of the Republic of Ireland)
    vehicle until 2007 when it acquired its first oil shale exploration assets in Morocco.[citation needed] In September 2008, the company listed on the London...
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    stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural gas, oil shale and peat, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass...
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    Tarfaya Basin (category Landforms of Morocco)
    Basin is a structural basin located in southern Morocco that extends westward into the Moroccan territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean. The basin is named...
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  • Eifelian-Givetian boundary in Morocco. The Kačák interval was first named from its occurrence in Bohemia as a black shale unit, known as the Kačák Member...
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    TotalEnergies (redirect from Total oil)
    in Pakistan for an undisclosed amount. In January 2014, Total became the first major oil and gas firm to acquire exploration rights for shale gas in the...
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  • recoverable shale gas reserves as the third largest globally, following China and Argentina. Algeria is a member of OPEC and was the seventh-largest oil products...
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    drink their oil", leading Saqqaf to reply in anger "All right, we will!". Joined by the foreign ministers of Algeria, Kuwait and Morocco, Saqqaf met with...
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    and copper deposits, and oil-shale development. Moroccan economic policies brought macroeconomic stability to the country in the early 1990s but did not...
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    Turkish market. In 2023, reserves of about one billion barrels with API gravity of 41 were discovered near Mt Gabar in Şirnak. Shale oil may be extractable...
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  • Cepsa (category Oil companies of Spain)
    Spain. It operates in several European countries as well as in Algeria, Canada, Colombia, Morocco, Brazil, and Panama. The company currently produces around...
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  • grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds Oil shale – Organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen Oolite –...
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    International Energy Agency (category Organizations based in Paris)
    up to 2050. In 2018, the IEA was criticized at the World Economic Forum by Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Al-Falih, for hyping the US shale oil industry amid...
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  • Paribas (category Banks based in Paris)
    fuels, gas producing substances and oil-shale. Its merchant-banking profile had enabled it to sidestep nationalization in 1945 and Paribas was able to take...
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    Shell invested in in China was shale. The company was an early entrant in shale oil exploration in China but scaled down operations in 2014 due to difficulties...
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  • Quarry in Poland: A – cephalopod-rich nodular limestone (equivalent to Wocklum Limestone) B – marly shale, including the Hangenberg Black Shale (HBS) at...
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