Oil Shale And Crude Oil
.. BackgroundMineralresources and synthetic fuels will always be needed by modernsocieties: without them, declines in the standards of living andeconomic strengths of countries will ensue. The present totaldependence of several countries, like Jordan, upon foreign sources ofcrude oil, refined products therefrom as well as natural gas, with theattendant imbalances of payments, could be eliminated for severalhundred years by the production of synthetic fuels and electricity fromtheir indigenous oil-shale beds. In general, the vast deposits of oilshale, which have been found on all the inhabited continents, have asyet not been harnessed effectively, because of the apparentunattractive financial feasibilities of doing so.[, ...
