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Tham khảo sách 'oil shale history incentives and policy', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, tự động hoá phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Order Code RL33359 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Oil Shale History Incentives and Policy April 13 2006 Anthony Andrews Specialist Industrial Engineering and Infrastructure Policy Resources Science and Industry Division Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress Oil Shale History Incentives and Policy Summary Oil shale is prevalent in the western states of Colorado. Utah and Wyoming. The resource potential of these shales is estimated to be the equivalent of 1.8 trillion barrels of oil in place. Retorted oil shale yields liquid hydrocarbons in the range of middle-distillate fuels such as jet and diesel fuel. 1 lowever because oil shales have not proved to be economically recoverable they are considered a contingent resource and not true reserves h remains to be demonstrated whether an economically significant oil volume can be extracted under existing operating conditions. In comparison. Saudi Arabia reportedly holds proved reserves of 267 billion barrels. Federal interest in oil shale dates back to the early 20 Century when the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves were set aside. Out of World War II concerns for a secure oil supply a Bureau of Mines program began research into exploiting the resource. Commercial interest followed during the 1960s. After a second oil embargo in the 1970s. Congress created a synthetic fuels program to stimulate large-scale commercial development of oil shale and other unconventional resources. The federal program proved short-lived and commercially backed oil shale projects ended in the early 1980s when oil prices began declining. The current high oil prices have revived the interest ill oil shale. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 EP CT identified oil shale as a strategically important domestic resource among others hat should be developed. EPACT also directed the Secretary of Defense to develop a separate strategy to use oil shale 111 meeting Departmentof Defense DOD requirements when doing so is in