Could Shale oil, In Situ Conversion Process, in Israel make it rich in energy exports?

Harold Vinegar, In Situ Process is making 250 billion barrels of shale oil available for world consumption. Israels shale deposits are located 30 miles from Jerusalem. Asked by GoldenLion 8 months ago Similar questions: Shale oil Situ Conversion Process Israel make rich energy exports Environment > Energy.

Similar questions: Shale oil Situ Conversion Process Israel make rich energy exports.

It is important to note the difference between shale oil and oil shale. "Shale oil or kerogen oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert the organic matter within the rock (kerogen) into synthetic oil and gas.

The resulting oil can be used immediately as a fuel or upgraded to meet refinery feedstock specifications by adding hydrogen and removing impurities such as sulfur and nitrogen. The refined products can be used for the same purposes as those derived from crude oil. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil"Oil shale, an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock, contains significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons called shale oil can be produced.

Shale oil is a substitute for conventional crude oil; however, extracting shale oil from oil shale is more costly than the production of conventional crude oil both financially and in terms of its environmental impact. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale"Most of Israel's deposits are located in the Rotem Basin region of the northern Negev desert near the Dead Sea. " "Israeli oil shale 6.5 billion metric tons or approximately 46.5 billion barrels is relatively low in heating value and oil yield."

Israel has 550 million metric tons or approximately 4 billion barrels of shale oil (note: 7.1475121 barrels of petroleum equals a metric ton). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_reserves#Middle_EastContrast this with the United State which has the largest oil shale reserves in the world. "There are two major deposits: the eastern US deposits, in Devonian-Mississippian shales, cover 250,000 square miles ; the western US deposits of the Green River Formation in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, are among the richest oil shale deposits in the world and contains 1.5 trillion barrels."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_reserves#North_America A total Chinese oil shale resource amounts of 720 billion metric tons slightly moer than 5 trillion barrels, located in 80 deposits of 47 oil shale basins.

This is equal to 48 billion metric tons 343 billion barrels of shale oil. At the same time there are speculations that the actual resource may even exceed the oil shale resource of the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_in_ChinaBased upon this information, though Israel's deposits may allow them to be oil based energy independent, given the reserves in China and the United States I do not think that Israel can get rich exporting oil.

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I cannot explain the discrepancy between the Harold Vinegar figure of 250 billion barrels of shale oil and Wikipedia's figure of 550 million metric tons or approximately 4 billion barrels of shale oil. However, even his figure is considerably less than the amount of 1.5 trillion barrels claimed for the Green River Formation.

Wiki is probably wrong GoldenLion 8 months ago .

2.3 trillion barrels for green river formation is more accurate GoldenLion 8 months ago .

Green River FormationThere are two million acres of federal land in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming rick in oil shale known as the Green River Formation with 800 billion to 2 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. (ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2008/2008-11-18-...)Obama reversed a Bush Administration move to permit drilling in Utah over concerns that fluids injected into gas fields could be toxic: benzene, methanol, and chemicals. Hydraulic fracturing shoots vast amounts of water, sand, and chemicals into the earth to break up rock and release gas.

Halliburton, Schlumberger, and BJ services control the majority of the $15 billion hydraulic fracturing market. Of the 300 chemicals thought to be used by drillers, more than 60 are listed as hazardous by the federal government. The chemicals could make it into the ground water and become unsafe for consumption.(http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_47/b4109000334640.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories)Most of the fracturing of rock takes place below the water table.

However, some of the crude can migrate. http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100902/epa-results-show-contaminated-water-wyoming-fracking-zoneUtah’s Shale Oil and Tar Sand Oil could be developed economically. The fed needs to: 1.

Establish consistent leasing programs for exploration and mine of the oil. 2. Provide tax incentives for research and development projects 3.

Provide corridors for accessing, transporting, and refining the oil. The Athabasca resource in Canada is estimated to contain 1.7 trillion barrels of oil. The Tar sands of Utah are estimated to contain 25-32 billion barrels of oil or 55% of the known tar sands of the US.

Utah Tar Sand Deposits are concentrated in size separate deposits. The Shale Oil deposit in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation are estimated at 1.2 to 2.0 trillion barrels of oil over 25,000 square miles.321 billion barrels of Shale oil are estimated in Utah. Oil Shale yields 25 gallons of oil per ton.

Richest deposits in Utah and Colorado produce 100,000 to 1 million barrels of oil per acre. Utah Shale oil is classified as “oil wet” meaning the oil is trapped within the pore space of host sandstone without the presence of an intervening film of connate water.(http://www.utahmining.org/UMA%20White%20Paper%20on%20Development%20of%20Utah%20OS%20TS.pdf)The Piceance Basin is a 4.5 million acre formation and one of the largest natural gas reserves in the Intermountain west. At least 5000 wells were drill between 2000 and 2008 in the Piceance Basin.

BLM lease 95 percent of the lands surrounding the Roan Plateau. There are 120,000 well on public land in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Dakotas and 44 million acres are leased. GoldenLion 8 months ago html).

Wiki estimate of 46.5 billion barrels is five times less than Vinegar, a bet against in Situ process to extract the oil from the shale rock. You need to analyze how the estimate was derived an you will probably discover various assumptions and constraints to the number. GoldenLion 7 months ago .

Part of the discrepancy might be explained by the old adage "Figures lie and liars figure. " .

Read my sources. Geological reports on the Green River formation are a better source of information. Trust phds working for a living in geology rather than public opinion on the issue.

GoldenLion 7 months ago .

I have. The first link was to the Environment News Service article titled "Bush Tries to Kickstart U.S. Oil Shale Development" by J.R. Pegg and dated November 18, 2008. "The Bush administration finalized regulations to govern the commercial development of oil shale on federal lands on Monday, rebuffing concerns that the rules are premature and ignoring the serious environmental concerns about tapping the resource." "The Green River Formation could yield some 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil ... which is enough to displace foreign oil imports for more than a century, said Stephen Allred, the Interior Department's assistant secretary for land and minerals management.

" "But Allred acknowledged commercial technology to economically tap the resource does not exist and could be a decade away from reality. " The next link was to Bloomberg Business Week article titled "Does Natural-Gas Drilling Endanger Water Supplies?" by Abrahm Lustgarten, dated November 11, 2008, said "Natural-gas operations are proliferating from Wyoming to New York. At the same time, Halliburton and other gas-service giants are fighting to keep secret the potentially hazardous chemicals they use to split thick layers of rock and release the fuel beneath.

" "... A close look at the EPA's 2004 study reveals that the agency may have played down evidence of health dangers. And now some regional EPA officials say it's time for the industry to disclose precisely what it's pumping into the ground. " "Halliburton says its reluctance to release information about drilling chemicals reflects only a desire to protect valuable trade secrets.

"If these formulas were to become available to other companies, it is possible that we could lose our competitive advantage with respect to those companies, not only in Colorado but throughout the world ..." The following link was to the Solve Climate News article titled "EPA Results Show Contaminated Water in Wyoming Fracking Zone" by Stacy Feldman, dated September 2, 2010.It said, Government scientists have found that private water walls in Pavillion, Wyo. Are polluted with toxic chemicals used in the controversial gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — and residents have been told not to drink from them. " The last link, (http://www.utahmining.org/UMA%20White%20Paper%20on%20Development%20of%20Utah%20OS%20TS.pdf), was broken.

I fail to see how the information I provided was in anyway false or misleading. You said that "Geological reports on the Green River formation are a better source of information. Trust phds working for a living in geology rather than public opinion on the issue."

However, the dates for my sources are more current and do not represent the biased figures supplied by the "phds" working for Halliburton and their cohorts, or the Republican administration that supported them. Pdf).

Increase exports could make sense, Latin America is energy rich.

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