Oil shale program plan

Technical Report · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5513661

The Oil Shale Program is directed toward the development of advanced technologies for extracting shale oil from large, currently unrecoverable oil shale resources. The overall goal of the Oil Shale Program is to foster development by the private sector of an economically competitive and environmentally acceptable oil shale industry whose products can compete with natural petroleum liquids in the marketplace by the year 2000. For the achievement of this goal, a series of interrelated technology development steps must take place, some sponsored by DOE, some by other government agencies, and some by other governments and/or the private sector. These include basic and applied research and development, proof-of-concept activities, first-of-a-kind field tests, and associated commercial scale activity. Activities associated with the Oil Shale Program are designed to achieve one or more of the following: enhanced environmental acceptability; expanded technically recoverable resource base; increased recovery efficiency; reduced capital and operating costs; and maximized utilization of the government owned resource base. Contents of this publication cover: background and program goal; technology description; technology status and research needs; program strategy; and program management. 2 figs.

• Research Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC. Office of Oil, Gas, Shale and Coal Liquids
• OSTI ID: 5513661
• Report Number(s): DOE/FE-0066; ON: DE86013431
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040000* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
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ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MINERAL RESOURCES
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RESOURCES
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
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