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  2. Oil shale reserves - Wikipedia

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    Oil shale formation takes place in a number of depositional settings and has considerable compositional variation. Oil shales can be classified by their composition (carbonate minerals such as calcite or detrital minerals such as quartz and clays) or by their depositional environment (large lakes, shallow marine, and lagoon/small lake settings).

  3. Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves - Wikipedia

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    The Reserves were initially under the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, but in 1920, the U.S. Navy's Fuel Oil Office assumed responsibility for the Reserves. A year later, President Warren Harding placed the Reserves back under the Department of Interior, only to have the Teapot Dome Scandal force control back to the U.S. Navy. In ...

  4. Oil shale - Wikipedia

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    Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced. In addition to kerogen, general composition of oil shales constitutes inorganic substance and bitumens. Based on their deposition environment, oil shales are classified as ...

  5. List of countries by proven oil reserves - Wikipedia

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    (The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...

  6. Oil reserves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has the largest known deposits of oil shale in the world, according to the Bureau of Land Management and holds an estimated 2.175 trillion barrels (345.8 km 3) of potentially recoverable oil. [21] Oil shale does not actually contain oil, but a waxy oil precursor known as kerogen. There is significant commercial production of ...

  7. Oil shale geology - Wikipedia

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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 significant amounts of kerogen, and belonging to the group of sapropel fuels. [1] Oil shale formation takes place in a number of depositional settings and has considerable compositional variation.

  8. Oil shale in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Oil shale retorting followed in 1881 by utilization of "D" retorts. The plant closed before 1900. [6] By 1892, about 100,000 tonnes of oil shale were being processed In Australia annually. [7] In 1896, the New South Wales Shale Oil Company expanded its activities to Torbane near Capertee, New South Wales.

  9. Countries by tight oil reserves - Wikipedia

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    Countries by tight oil reserves. 1 language. ... Shale Oil proven reserves billion barrels; Total