Present trends in Estonian-Russian work on oil shale

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1967 · Colo. Sch. Min. Q.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6365842

Cieslewicz, W J

The Estonian oil-shale basin lies near Leningrad. The Baltic region of Russia has always been deficient in fuel and hydroelectric power, and in the post-war years Russia has used oil shale of occupied Estonia to meet these 2 demands. Kukersite oil shale is found in thick calcareous Late Ordovician beds of marine origin which lie throughout the basin at depths varying form 0 to 300 m. Shale layers with thicknesses from 0.6 to 0.7 m and up are considered commercial. Shale beds with an aggregate thickness of 3 m are also common throughout the basin. The Russians have developed more than 10 large underground mines and several open-pit mines whose total annual output in 1966 reached 25 million metric tons. Russia's new energy-chemical and complex-utilization of oil shale processing may offer some economic advantage. These 2 fields--the chemical processing and the waste product utilization--are the areas where the Russians are doing much research, developing new methods, and adapting many petrochemical technologies to shale-chemical processes. This information and the Russian experience with the successful new solid-heat exchanger large-capacity retort should be quite useful to the U.S.A. (49 refs.)

• Research Organization: Colorado Sch Mines
• OSTI ID: 6365842
• Journal Information: Colo. Sch. Min. Q.; (United States), Vol. 62:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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