Current
Technology for Production of Shale Oil
Boak, Jeremy1 (1)
A variety of technological approaches are
currently being used or developed to realize the potential of oil shale as a
source of petroleum hydrocarbons. Processes currently in use are employed for
deposits that are mined and retorted at the surface to convert the immature kerogen to liquids and gas. Processes currently being
developed (primarily in the
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