Oil Shale Links
Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced, called shale oil (not to be confused with tight oil crude oil occurring naturally in shales)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
One Way To Get Serious About Saving Our Economy: Shale Oil
https://web.archive.org/web/20080717035317/http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/020980.php
Oil shale may finally have its moment
By Jon Birger, Fortune Magazine senior writer
November 1 2007
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007110111
https://web.archive.org/web/20071103004652/https://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007110111
Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked Up In Rocks
by Guy Elliott Mitchell
National Geographic January 1918
(best to download and view in Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Oil Shale Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJQOyeRvBc
100 years of oil shale mining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EED_GtxGBxc
Shale Oil Miracle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpDPQJXYdo
Oil shale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uBD76nDCbM
Oil Shale (kerogen), Enough Oil for Over 150 Years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_ovqsWozI
JCE = Journal of Chemical Education
ja = Journal of the American Chemical Society
ie = Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
es = Environmental Science & Technology
PopSci = Popular Science
This Oven Makes Oil Out of Rocks PopSci 1949
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA3NTJf/PopSci1949.pdf
Oil Shale - Heir to the Petroleum Kingdom? JCE 1983
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA3OTlf/JCE1983p0750.pdf
Current status of US Oil Shale Technology ie 1964
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNzY5MDY2ODhf/ie50657a005-r.pdf
Synfuels from Coal, Natural Gas and Oil Shale
es60119a610.pdf
Heat of Combustion of Green River Oil Shale
i200025a007.pdf
American Oil Shales
ie50049a029.pdf
Oil Bearing Shales in North Carolina
ie50200a006.pdf
Antiknock Motor Fuels by Cracking Shale Oils
ie50200a008.pdf
Some Chemical Reactions of Colorado Oil Shale Kerogen ie 1958
ie50583a043.pdf
Chemistry in the Oil Shales JCE 1976
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA4MDRf/JCE1976p0154.pdf
The Constitution of Kerogen ja 1923
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA4MTNf/ja01669a020.pdf
Characteristics and Utilization of Oil Shale and Shale Oil ie 1951
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA5NTJf/ie50493a015.pdf
Liquid Fuel from Oil Shale ie 1951
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTA5Nzlf/ie50493a002.pdf
Converting Oil Shale to Liquid Fuels es 2008
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTEwNTRf/es800531f.pdf
Oil Shales of America 1909
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTY5NTNf/ie50008a004.pdf
Shale Oil ie 1922
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTcwODBf/ie50153a049.pdf
The Organic Matter in Oil Shales ie 1923
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTcxMzVf/ie50160a005.pdf
Estonian Oil Shale ie 1962
https://od.lk/s/OV8xNTU4OTcyNDZf/ie50625a007-Estonia.pdf