• are oil shale deposits in Australia which range from small deposits to large reserves. Deposits, varying by their age and origin, are located in about...
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  • Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert...
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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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  • is a list of shale oil operations in Australia. Operations include mining of oil shale, extraction of crude shale oil, and refining of oil products. As...
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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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    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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  • Oil shale reserves refers to oil shale resources that are economically recoverable under current economic conditions and technological abilities. Oil...
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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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  • 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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    Tight oil (also known as shale oil, shale-hosted oil or light tight oil, abbreviated LTO) is light crude oil contained in unconventional petroleum-bearing...
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  • The Stuart Oil Shale Project is an oil shale development project in Yarwun near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. It is Australia's first major attempt...
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    Oil shale in Israel is widespread but an undeveloped resource, largely because of economic and technological constraints. Israeli oil shales belong to...
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    The Glen Davis Shale Oil Works was a shale oil extraction plant, in the Capertee Valley, at Glen Davis, New South Wales, Australia, which operated from...
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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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    Tasmanite (category Oil shale in Australia)
    Cannel coal Kukersite Lamosite Marinite Torbanite Oil shale geology List of shale oil operations in Australia (Tasmania) Peters, K.E., C.C. Walters & P.J....
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    Oil shale geology is a branch of geologic sciences which studies the formation and composition of oil shales–fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing...
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    development of shale gas in Canada, and, more recently, has spurred interest in shale gas possibilities in Europe, Asia, and Australia. It has been postulated...
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    extraction and processing of oil shale. Surface mining of oil shale deposits causes the usual environmental impacts of open-pit mining. In addition, the combustion...
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    resources of tight oil, also known as "shale oil". Shale gas was first extracted as a resource in Fredonia, New York, in 1821, in shallow, low-pressure...
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    estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids. Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic...
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    Kukersite is a light-brown marine type oil shale of Ordovician age. It is found in the Baltic Oil Shale Basin in Estonia and North-West Russia. It is of...
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    Joadja, New South Wales (category Shale oil towns in New South Wales)
    Southern Railway line in Mittagong. The town existed to mine oil shale from which kerosene was extracted by the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Co. The...
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    British Australian Oil Company Limited was a British-owned company—incorporated in 1910—that mined oil shale and produced shale oil and refined oil products...
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  • Ambre Energy (redirect from Oil-Tech, Inc.)
    Energy Limited is an Australian coal and oil shale company. It has offices in Brisbane and Salt Lake City. Ambre Energy was founded in June 2005 by Edek...
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    reservoirs include basin-centered gas, shale gas, coalbed methane (CBM), gas hydrates, tar sands, light tight oil and oil shale, mostly from North America. The...
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  • New South Wales Shale and Oil Company — established in 1872, by the merging of two earlier ventures — mined and processed oil shale to produce kerosene...
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  • Forbes. "Bahrain announces huge shale-oil discovery off its coast". "Bahrain Seeks Big Oil's Help to Develop New Shale Discovery". Bloomberg.com. 4 April...
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    for 0.4%. Australia's oil shale resources are estimated at 58 billion barrels, or 4,531 million tonnes of shale oil. The deposits are located in the eastern...
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    sedimentation. Shale in Potokgraben, the Karawanks, Austria Splitting shale (Messel oil shale) with a large knife to reveal fossils Weathering shale at a road...
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