To: starbase
IIRC, the stuff in Utah is an oil shale formation. Extracton is quite a bit different.
We are not going to run out of oil any time soon, but it will get more costly to extract.
10 posted on
01/24/2006 5:27:34 AM PST by
Fierce Allegiance
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Extraction is quite a bit different.
Is it more difficult and/or expensive than the deposits in Canada?
15 posted on
01/24/2006 5:30:24 AM PST by
starbase
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To: Fierce Allegiance
"...IIRC, the stuff in Utah is an oil shale formation. Extracton is quite a bit different." Shell Oil has figured out how to do it. The process is somewhat similar to the Frasch process for mining sulfur. Simplistically, the process goes something like---drill two wells, pump hot water or steam down one well, and the heat and pressure pushes the liquified oil to and out of the other well.
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