... Abstract A 40 degrees A.P.I. crude shale oil has been produced from the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin of Colorado by injection of hot natural gas at a controlled temperature. The quality of the shale oil differs very markedly from the customary shale oil from the same...

... of permeability and porosity. However, it should also be kept in mind that oil matter, as such, does not exist in shale. oil shale heating permeabilityand porosity shale oil countercurrentprocess shale complex reservoir Thickness experiment Upstream Oil & Gas situ processing diameter...

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... today is why do we need shale oil? With a large portion of our domestic crude production restricted, and with limitations on imports from large foreign sources, won't we have all the conventional petroleum required? The answers to these questions are more questions. Can we afford to be dependent upon...

... for publication in one of the two SPE magazines with the paper. ABSTRACT Industrial shale-oil operations in North America and Europe predated the Drake discovery, but, since then, most have succumbed to competition from petroleum. However, the existence of enormous oil-shale resources in the Green River formation...

... thereaf'ter. Even with a substantial volume of' shale oil production, steadily increasing crude imports probably will be needed. The two principal f'actors af'f'ecting ultimate volume of' crude to be f'ound in the U. S. are drilling return [barrels of' reserves developed per f'oot drilled], and crude oil...