In this study, the mean values of oil yield, total organic carbon and [S.sub.1] + [S.sub.2] of Jimusaer
oil shale were found to be respectively 7.04%, 10.88 wt% and 72.06 mg HC/g rock, its kerogen types were mainly I and II, and [T.sub.max] value was around 435 [degrees]C.
The amendment was in line with the government's strategy to encourage investment in the
oil shale industry, and reach understandings with
oil shale companies to enable them to overcome financial burdens posed by regional conditions and a slump in oil prices.
Keywords:
Oil shale, Crack, Thermal cracking, Heating time, Temperature.
While President Harding set aside NPR-A in 1923, it is William Howard Taft, Harding's predecessor, who both initiated the US government railroad in Alaska and created through executive order the Naval Petroleum and
Oil Shale Reserves (NPOSR).
Oil shale also known as kerogen shale, is an organic rich fine-grained' grained sedimentary rock containing a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds from which liquid hydrocarbons called shale oil, crude oil occurring naturally in shale can be produced.
Defining
oil shale is difficult due to the chemical composition of different shales.
In the Middle East significant
oil shale deposits have been located in Jordan, Morocco and Israel.
Jordan's Natural Resources Authority (NRA) signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding "with Global
Oil Shale Holdings (GOSH), a Canadian firm, to assess
oil shale resources in Attarat Um Ghudran and Isphere Al-mahata areas, according to an official statement.
For example, the
oil shale under the town or some important buildings can't be exploited.
Oil shale conversion is a proven technology which has been used in other parts of the world for almost 55 years.
Jordan is set to invest in the revolutionary global
oil shale market, worth an estimated $2.88 billion in 2011, said the organisers of an upcoming energy summit in Amman.
Oil shale deposits in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are estimated to contain up to 3 trillion barrels of oil--or an amount equal to the world's proven oil reserves.
Heating
oil shale, which is a sedimentary rock, produces oil and natural gas.
