Production of Synthetic Crude from Kerogen Trapped in Shale Advances Through New Technologies, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

While the U.S. has much smaller oil sands deposits than those of Canada, it is rich in a different unconventional oil formation: kerogen-rich oil shale. This is found as a rock formation containing the oil precursor kerogen, which can be processed into synthetic oil of very high quality, similar to sweet crude. Kerogen-bearing shales are younger, in geologic terms, than formations that contain crude oil. Natural forces have not yet converted the sedimentary kerogen deposits into crude.   (This type of field is not to be confused with the production of actual crude oil from shale in the Bakken Shale and other fields.) Oil shale yields…

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