Wouldn't "boiling it to the surface" contaminate the water table above it? Or do you mean heating it in place and piping it to the surface?
The article didn’t go into that much detail.
I envisioned it being up through the ground comes a-bubblin’ crude, but then I did watch a lot of Beverly Hillbillies.
It was definitely heating the shale in place underground to free the oil. But they’d have to something to collect it somehow, like drill shafts.