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unusual facts about oil shale


Oil shale

On 2 May 1982, known in some circles as "Black Sunday", Exxon canceled its US$5 billion Colony Shale Oil Project near Parachute, Colorado because of low oil-prices and increased expenses, laying off more than 2,000 workers and leaving a trail of home-foreclosures and small-business bankruptcies.


Hobarrow Bay

Hobarrow Bay is a small secluded southwest-facing bay, with an Oil shale and shingle beach to the southeast of Brandy Bay and to the southwest of Kimmeridge on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England.

Monterey Formation

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2011, the 1,750 square mile Monterey Shale Formation contained more than half of the United States’s total estimated technically recoverable shale oil (tight oil contained in shale, as distinct from oil shale) resource, about 15.4 billion barrels.

Sillamäe

In 1946–1948, the former oil shale processing plant in Sillamäe was rebuilt by Soviets to extract uranium oxide from the locally mined Dictyonema argillite ore (a type of oil shale).


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Karrick

Lewis Karrick (1890–1962), an American petroleum refinery engineer, oil shale and coal technologist, and inventor

Karrick process

The process was the work of oil shale technologist Lewis Cass Karrick at the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1920s.

Lea-Tuti Livšits

Worked in the Kiviõli Chemical Plant as a lab assistant and later as an artist until 1974 when she moved to Kohtla-Järve and started working as an artist in the Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Science Institute.

Oil shale in Australia

In 1854, oil shale from the River Lett near Hartley, New South Wales was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition and in 1862, oil shale from Murrurundi, New South Wales was exhibited at the London International Exhibition.

Oil shale in China

The main oil shale research institution in China is the China University of Petroleum.

OSEC

Former name of Enefit American Oil (former name: Oil Shale Exploration Company - OSEC)

Paraho process

The semiworks unit achieved a maximum throughput capacity of 290 tons (263 tonnes) of raw oil shale per day.

Piceance Basin

"For the first time in 20 years, we have an updated assessment of in-place oil shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado," said US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

Synthetic fuels in the United States

The United States Bureau of Mines opened a demonstration oil shale mine at Anvils Point, west of Rifle, Colorado, which operated at a small scale.

Tyrolean shale oil

Shale oil reserves are located in the oil shale at Seefeld in Bächen Valley plate and close to Lake Achen.