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Vol. 10, No. 24 Week of June 12, 2005
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


U.S. oil shale: Real, or just a mirage?

New processes might turn the mirage of future oil shale development into a viable source of vast quantities of petroleum products

F. Jay Schempf

Petroleum News Contributing Writer

The federal government is taking another serious look-see at whether U.S. shale oil reserves can be tapped economically and in an environmentally friendly way. So what’s new? After all, government and industry have searched over more than a century for a way to coax oil economically from the vast U.....

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Rock that burns

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