Shell's process is complicated. The company plans to insert electric heaters hundreds of feet into the ground to heat the oil shale to between 650 degrees and 700 degrees for more than two years.
Oil Shale
Squeezing Oil From a Stone
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Shell to sign deal to explore Jordanian oil shale
AMMAN (MarketWatch) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is in the final stages of striking a concession agreement with the Jordanian government to explore oil from the country's vast oil shale, a senior official at the state-run Natural Resources Authority said Thursday.
Despite 800 billion barrel potential, oil shale a hard sell
Shell, by nearly all accounts the industry leader in oil shale research, landed three of the leases.
Untapped Oil Reserves Could Fuel U.S. For 300 Years
In fact, such untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand -- at today's levels -- for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
Power struggle over oil shale
Shell Exploration & Production Co. is working an oil-shale research project on three 160-acre parcels in Colorado. Spokeswoman Darci Sinclair in Houston said that the company wants "commercial development as soon as feasible." She declined to answer whether Shell believes development is commercially viable. She said that the lack of regulatory framework on oil shale "creates additional uncertainty for companies trying to prove viability of new technologies."
Oil in Rocky Mountains no easy play
Shell Exploration & Production Co. is working on its own lands in western Colorado but has permission to work three 160-acre parcels of federal land on an experimental basis. It wants the federal government to set a firm date when development of larger and more productive oil shale fields will be allowed. Shell says it needs the certainty to pace its capital and research investments. "The regulatory framework will be very important as we move forward," said Darci Sinclair, a Shell Oil Co. spokesman in Houston.
Shell pilot oil shale project in Colorado
Shell plans to contain the kerogen by utilizing freeze walls -- using a refrigeration process requiring electricity to freeze groundwater -- to prevent migration into groundwater. As I said this is highly speculative although Shell has built a pilot project.
Big oil now seeing green
Shell co-owns a wind farm in Lamar and is involved in 11 wind projects in the U.S. and Europe.
Colorado’s oil shale lures Shell
In its quest to remove oil from western Colorado's shale, Royal Dutch Shell has been buying land and water rights in anticipation of what is likely to be a thirsty new industry.
Shell makes run on water
In its quest to melt oil out of western Colorado's shale, Royal Dutch Shell has been buying up land and water rights in anticipation of what is likely to be a thirsty new industry.
Canadian Press: Shell Canada appoints Brian Straub to head Canadian oilsands operations
Canadian Press: Shell Canada appoints Brian Straub to head Canadian oilsands operations
Thursday, July 07, 2005
CALGARY (CP) – Shell Canada has appointed international oil executive Brian Straub to head the company’s Canadian oilsands operations.
The Calgary-based integrated oil company announced late Wednesday that Sraub will take over as senior vice-president for the oilsands business, effective Oct. 1. He will succeed Neil Camarta who has headed Shell’s oilsands division since 1996 and is taking another executive position this fall.
Straub grew up in Alberta and joined Shell Canada in 1977 with a petroleum engineering degree from the University of Wyoming. He has held various drilling and operating, technical and commercial management positions in Shell Canada’s oil and natural gas businesses.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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