Posted on 11/14/2010 3:52:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Edited on 11/14/2010 4:14:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Paul Bordovsky, left, and John Braudaway talk last week by the well on Mr. Bordovsky's 642-acre ranch.
KARNES CITY, Texas
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I grew up in hanover but now live between Napoleon and Manchester. They’re drilling all over around here.
Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The “oil shale” rock in the Green River formation for the most part is not really shale at all and contains kerogen, a solid, not oil. It needs to be heated to a few hundred degrees for a few months or to a much higher temperature for a shorter period of time to cook down / reduce the kerogen to a liquid.
Too bad that the gas and oil trapped in immpermiable shales [otherwise impermiable until fracture stimulated] sounds a bit like “oil shale.” The two are much different form of hydrocarbons.
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