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Oil shale economics, the Glossary

Oil shale economics deals with the economic feasibility of oil shale extraction and processing.^[1]

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A.F.S.K. Hom Tov

A.F.S.K. Hom Tov was a spin-off of the A.F.S.K. Industries Group located in Haifa, Israel.

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The Alberta Taciuk process (ATP; known also as the AOSTRA Taciuk process) is an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology for extracting oil from oil sands, oil shale and other organics-bearing materials, including oil contaminated soils, sludges and wastes.

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Amman

Amman (ʿAmmān) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center.

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Athabasca oil sands

The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Break-even point

The break-even point (BEP) in economics, business—and specifically cost accounting—is the point at which total cost and total revenue are equal, i.e. "even".

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carbon price

Carbon pricing (or pricing) is a method for governments to mitigate climate change, in which a monetary cost is applied to greenhouse gas emissions in order to encourage polluters to reduce fossil fuel combustion, the main driver of climate change.

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Cellulose

Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.

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Colony Shale Oil Project

Colony Shale Oil Project was an oil shale development project at the Piceance Basin near Parachute Creek, Colorado.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Energy & Fuels

Energy & Fuels is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society.

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Energy return on investment

In energy economics and ecological energetics, energy return on investment (EROI), also sometimes called energy returned on energy invested (ERoEI), is the ratio of the amount of usable energy (the exergy) delivered from a particular energy resource to the amount of exergy used to obtain that energy resource. Oil shale economics and energy return on investment are energy economics.

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Environmental impact of the oil shale industry

Environmental impact of the oil shale industry includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution caused by the extraction and processing of oil shale. Oil shale economics and Environmental impact of the oil shale industry are oil shale.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Galoter process

The Galoter process (also known as TSK, UTT, or SHC; its newest modifications are called Enefit and Petroter) is a shale oil extraction technology for the production of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

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High-density polyethylene

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) or polyethylene high-density (PEHD) is a thermoplastic polymer produced from the monomer ethylene.

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International Energy Agency

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector. Oil shale economics and International Energy Agency are energy economics.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Kerogen

Kerogen is solid, insoluble organic matter in sedimentary rocks.

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Kukersite

Kukersite is a light-brown marine type oil shale of Ordovician age.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States.

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Lignite

Lignite (derived from Latin lignum meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves

The United States Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, established in 1927, is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, responsible for analyzing and monitoring the U.S.'s oil shale reserves.

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Oil shale

Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced.

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Oil Shale (journal)

Oil Shale is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in petrology, especially concerning oil shale. Oil shale economics and oil Shale (journal) are oil shale.

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Oil shale gas

Oil shale gas (also: retort gas or retorting gas) is a synthetic non-condensable gas mixture (syngas) produced by oil shale thermal processing (pyrolysis). Oil shale economics and oil shale gas are oil shale.

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Opportunity cost

In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to be made between several mutually exclusive alternatives.

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Parachute, Colorado

The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Price of oil

The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus, and Western Canadian Select (WCS).

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RAND Corporation

The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.

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Retort

In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances.

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Rocky Mountain News

The Rocky Mountain News (nicknamed the Rocky) was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Shale oil

Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. Oil shale economics and shale oil are oil shale.

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Shale oil extraction is an industrial process for unconventional oil production.

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Shell in situ conversion process

The Shell in situ conversion process (Shell ICP) is an in situ shale oil extraction technology to convert kerogen in oil shale to shale oil.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Spent shale

Spent shale or spent oil shale (also known as retorted shale) is a solid residue from the shale oil extraction process of producing synthetic shale oil from oil shale. Oil shale economics and spent shale are oil shale.

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Stuart Oil Shale Project

The Stuart Oil Shale Project is an oil shale development project in Yarwun near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website published in the Denver metropolitan area.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Ton

Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Upgrader

An upgrader is a facility that upgrades bitumen (extra heavy oil) into synthetic crude oil.

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Viru Keemia Grupp

Viru Keemia Grupp (VKG) is an Estonian holding group of oil shale industry, power generation, and public utility companies.

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World Energy Council

The World Energy Council is a global forum for thought-leadership and tangible engagement with headquarters in London.

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World Energy Outlook

The annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) is the International Energy Agency's (IEA) flagship publication on global energy projections and analysis. Oil shale economics and World Energy Outlook are energy economics.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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1980s oil glut

The 1980s oil glut was a significant surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1970s energy crisis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics

Also known as Oil shale economy.

, Spent shale, Stuart Oil Shale Project, Sweden, The Denver Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Ton, United States Department of Energy, United States dollar, Upgrader, Viru Keemia Grupp, World Energy Council, World Energy Outlook, 1973 oil crisis, 1980s oil glut.

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