Table of Contents:
  • An overview of oil shale resources / Emily Knaus [and others]
  • New challenges and directions in oil shale development technologies / Peter M. Crawford and James C. Killen
  • Lake level controlled sedimentological heterogeneity of oil shale, upper Green River formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Utah / William Gallin [and others]
  • Thermodynamics of shale oil production / James W. Bunger and Christopher P. Russell
  • Molecular composition of shale oil / James W. Bunger, Christopher P. Russell, and Donald E. Cogswell
  • Chemistry and kinetics of oil shale retorting / Alan K. Burnham
  • Modeling of the in-situ production of oil from oil shale / Jacob H. Bauman [and others]
  • AMSO's novel approach to in-situ oil shale recovery / Alan K. Burnham [and others]
  • Shell's in situ conversion process
  • from laboratory to field pilots / Robert C. Ryan [and others]
  • Exxon Mobil's Electrofrac process for in situ oil shale conversion / W.A. Symington [and others]
  • Carbon dioxide emissions from oil shale derived liquid fuels / Adam R. Brandt, Jeremy Boak, and Alan K. Burnham
  • A review of activities to address the environmental impacts of oil shale development / David K. Olsen, Arthur Hartstein, and Davis R. Alleman
  • Economics of oil shale development / Khosrow Biglarbigi [and others]
  • Resource management challenges in the context of potential oil shale development / Kirsten Uchitel, John Ruple, and Robert Keiter.