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May 15, 5:52 pm, "Larry Hewitt" <larryh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>http://www.examiner.com/a-1389682~Salazar_sponsors_bill_to_slow_down_...
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> > Once again, democrats decide to be a part of the problem instead of
> > the solution. For the life of me I can't understand why they want
> > America to be weak.
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> > Salazar sponsors bill to slow down oil shale development
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> > DENVER (Map, News) - Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., said Tuesday that he
> > will introduce a bill to slow down moves toward commercial oil shale
> > development in the region.
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> > His announcement came the same day that an amendment intended to speed
> > up oil shale development died in the Senate. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-
> > Colo., co-sponsored the amendment.
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> Oil shale is a wild goose chase. The true net energy output from mining
> oil
> shale is very near zero, and may even be negative.
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> Oil shale does not have bitumen (petroleum) locked in its ****es, but
> kerogen. Kerogen is a precursor to bitumen, having a large percentage of
> the original plant life locked up in it. It is also full of low quality,
> heavy oil that is unsuitable for most uses without significant
processing.
So it's a technology challenge.
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> And despite the large estimates for the recoverable volume of oil, the
> RAND
> corp estimates that by 2020 production would be an insignificant 100,000
> barrels a day.
One can always justify inactivity by focusing on the time and/or cost of
activity. People who don't want to work use such arguments to avoid
looking
for work all the time.
The majors never invest in anything they aren't firmly convinced they can
make a buck from. If you've got the majors investing, you can bank on its
viability.
JG
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> Current technology requires the expenditure of huge amounts of energy to
> mine, then heat the kerogen to remove the valuable ****tions.
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> Less than 2/3 of the volume of Colorado kerogen is valuable. This
fraction
> must then be distilled, not cracked as for gasoline. This is another
> energy
> intensive process yielding diesel fuel and heating oil.
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> The source for this heat is either recovered shale oil/natural gas or
coal
> trucked to the site, burning more diesel oil.
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> The process also requires huge amounts of electricity. How much
> electricity?
> The RAND Corp estimates a dedicated power plant larger than any other in
> Colorado, one capable of powering a city of half a million people, would
> be
> needed. Shell is proposing using na natural gas fired plant,, because it
> is
> more efficient than coal, but virtually the whole output of ng would be
> needed to fire the generating plant to produce the oil and ng.
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> Complicating the equation are the environmental issues, the reason
Salazar
> is concerned. Huge amounts of water are needed to cool the processing
> equipment. And the heating/extraction process actually expands the slag
> to
> a larger volume than it started with. This slag is also highly toxic.
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> Using Shell Oil's published figures for their test project an initial
> investment of $7B to $10 B, including the construction of a new electric
> generation plant and coal mine to feed it, is predicted just to produce
> 100,000 barrels a day.
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> http://www.aspencore.org/images/pdf/OilShale.pdf
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> http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=kerogen
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> Larry
Wild goose chase? Right, that's why Chevron Shale Oil Company, Eesti
Energia, EGL Resources, ExxonMobil, Fushun Mining Group, Hom Tov,
Independent Energy Partners, Kiviõli Keemiatööstus, Millennium
Synfuels, Mountain West Energy, Oil Shale Exploration Company,
Petrobras, Queensland Energy Resources, Red Leaf, Shale Technologies
LLC, Shell Frontier Oil and Gas, VKG Oil and others are either in
production or testing the technology. Thanks for your links, but the
author is hardly objective. And, somehow, I think the folks at all of
the aforementioned companies have just a bit more brain power than you
on this subject. Or, perhaps they should just pick up a phone and
call Larry Hewitt and shut down all production because you say so.
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