Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Posted on 07/23/2008 7:46:48 AM PDT by kellynla
king Ritter has closed drilling for 3 months so the animals will not be disturbed. He is aboard the wrong buss just like when he was denver DA and released 98% of criminal illegals. This “spendthrift” wants to raise taxes $330 million and wants $100 per vehicle for tax.
okay, thanks, I’ll wait to see what thackney has to say about this...
When the process is done do you have rubble or sand?
Stick a straw into Lake Superior, defeat OPEC.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Probably, but why would you?
I know this is the line being repeated endlessly by the environmentalists, but I attended Shell's conference on their new in-situ technique of extraction, and it uses water that is available in the rock, and doesn't require any extra water. Anyone who looked at a map could see that the Colorado river abuts only a tiny portion of the oil shale reserves anyway, so whether there is extra water available in the Colorado River is really not even relevant.
There is a lot of water in the shale oil formation that becomes available upon the fracturing that is part of the new extraction process.
It's not an aquifer, it's water held in the tight pore spaces of the shale, so it won't affect any existing water rights.
That in-situ water is frozen into a curtain of ice that surrounds the extraction area. Then the oil is pumped out - it's light sweet crude , of the highest quality and isn't going to require much, if any, refining.When the site is finished, the ice curtain will be melted in place. There is no tailings pile, no waste water , no clean-up except to re-vegetate a small well pad.
It is viable, as Shell's willingness to commit real money toward it, and it could solve our oil problems cleanly and efferently.
That's why our Democratic friends in Congress are doing everything they can to stop it.
Hadn’t seen the excess water stuff before, nevermind.
I brought it up because NM is floating on an ocean of saltwater.
Then, after I posted, it occured to me that once converted to steam, it will be a lot less salty, anyway.
DOH!
1.2.6 WATER AVAILABILITY
The development of western oil shale resources will require water for plant operations, supporting infrastructure, and the associated economic growth in the region. While some new oil shale technologies significantly reduce process water requirements, stable and secure sources of significant volumes of water may still be required for large-scale oil shale development. The largest demands for water are expected to be for land reclamation and to support the population and economic growth associated with oil shale activity.
Strategic Significance of America’s Oil Shale Resource
Volume II, Oil Shale Resources, Technology and Economics
http://www.unconventionalfuels.org/publications/reports/npr_strategic_significancev2.pdf
Page 6
Fund ITER.
“but I attended Shell’s conference on their new in-situ technique of extraction, and it uses water that is available in the rock, and doesn’t require any extra water.”
Excellent!
Now we’re getting down to cases. Thanks for info!
Kelly
My bet? You end up with the formation(s) largely intact, say 70% or so, and somewhat gooey or slimy. Then, the kerogen that can not be extracted will harden up again after a time, and you're back to rock.
Please note that I am not a petroengineer. Frankly, I'd suggest calling Shell or Raytheon. Pretty clearly, it's to their advantage to put out as much information as possible on their respective processes, bar (naturally) any proprietary stuff.
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
;^)
C’mon, mate. You know perfectly well that the enviromarxists will say absolutely anything to halt production. If ‘truth’ isn’t available, any lie that sounds even marginally plausible will suit them right down to the ground.
Me, too !
Efficiently, it should have said.
Those inconvenient little facts, of course, won't stop the enviromarxists from repeating their 'animals' argument every hour on the hour.
;^)
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