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2011-11-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Oil Shale in Valley Where David Slew Goliath

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-07 09:37|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Amen and Amen!

Posted by ana 2011-11-07 10:03|| 2011-11-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Just don't try and build a pipeline through the Ogallala.

Posted by bman 2011-11-07 10:03|| 2011-11-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Gas now oil things are looking good. I assume they will use a fracturing process. That takes allot of water.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-07 10:15|| 2011-11-07 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't use Fracturing. More environmentally friendly process.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-07 10:20|| 2011-11-07 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually fracking is generally environmentally friendly, only the greens think otherwise. I believe that most oil shale has to be mined and processed. The spoils to be stockpiled to be returned to the spent mine and landscaped. Still environmentally sound if done properly according to the individual situation.

From Wikipedia: "Shale oil extraction is usually performed above ground (ex situ processing) by mining the oil shale and then treating it in processing facilities. Other modern technologies perform the processing underground (on-site or in situ processing) by applying heat and extracting the oil via oil wells."

Wiki Article: http://tinyurl.com/5kuwfk

Posted by tipover 2011-11-07 10:41|| 2011-11-07 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 They are using in situ heating to extract the oil.

Tried already in the Green River shale, but hobbled by so many enviro regs that it wasn't clear whether it was viable or not.

Heating shale oil in situ is one of the few applications where solar/wind power makes sense.

I hope they take that route, just to piss off the Greenies.

Posted by phil_b 2011-11-07 14:59|| 2011-11-07 14:59|| Front Page Top

#7 There are environmentalists in Israel too and they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent any demo project.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-11-07 15:36|| 2011-11-07 15:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Golda Meir once said that God has a sense of humor - he found the only place in the Mid East without a drop of oil, and told the Jews that this was the Promised Land, a land of milk and honey. Looks like Meir was wrong.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-11-07 19:41|| 2011-11-07 19:41|| Front Page Top

#9 D *** NG IT, USDOD, TOLD YA SO.

And to think it only took almost 20 years for the Fed to relearn why Madonna rules.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-07 19:42|| 2011-11-07 19:42|| Front Page Top

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