Beginning of an oil shale industry in Australia

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989 · Oil Shale Symposium Proceedings; (USA)

OSTI ID:6503945

Wright, B ^[1]

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1. Southern Pacific Petroleum NL, 143 Macquarie Street, Sydney (AU)

This paper discusses how preparations are being made for the construction and operation of a semi commercial plant to process Australian oil shale. This plant is primarily designed to demonstrate the technical feasibility of processing these shales at low cost. Nevertheless it is expected to generate modest profits even at this demonstration level. This will be the first step in a three staged development of one of the major Australian oil shale deposits which may ultimately provide nearly 10% of Australia's anticipated oil requirements by the end of the century. In turn this development should provide the basis for a full scale oil shale industry in Australia based upon the advantageously disposed oil shale deposits there. New sources of oil are becoming critical since Australian production is declining rapidly while consumption is accelerating.

• OSTI ID: 6503945
• Report Number(s): CONF-8904193--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Oil Shale Symposium Proceedings; (USA) Journal Volume: 22
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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