Economic Appraisal of Shale Oil Production

Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources

Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources:

Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources:

Retorted Oil Shale Disposal Research

Although the retorted, or processed, shale represents the largest by-product from oil shale retorting operations, results from detailed studies indicate that it can be managed in an environmentally acceptable manner. Laboratory and field tests have demonstrated the following properties: using normal vehicular traffic; cementation strength to 1480 kPa, using only retorted shale and optimum water...

Carcinogenicity studies of Estonian oil shale soots.

Several series of chronic experiments in white mice and white rats were carried out in order to determine the carcinogenicity of Estonian oil shale soot as well as the soot from oil shale fuel oil. All the investigated samples of soot showed a relatively low (from 14 to 1200 ppm) benzo(a)pyrene content. The benzene extract of oil shale soot, painted on the skin of white mice, proved to be stron...

Modeling Production from Shale

Mitchell and his team of geologists and engineers began working on the shale challenge in 1981, trying different combinations of processes and technologies before ultimately succeeding in 1997 with the use of a “slick-water” frac that made Barnett Shale economical to develop and in turn changed the future of the US natural gas industry [7]. Continuing on Mitchell’s success progress followed a p...