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Oil shale development in the United States : prospects and policy issues /

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when crude oil prices were high, government and private-sector energy experts took a hard look at the costs and benefits of extracting oil from the vast deposits of oil shale that lie beneath the western United States (much of it under government land). Oil prices...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: Rand Corporation
Autres auteurs: Bartis, James T., 1945-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2005.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The U.S. oil shale resource base
  • Oil shale technologies
  • The strategic significance of oil shale
  • Critical policy issues for oil shale development
  • The development path for oil shale
  • Appendix: Cost estimation modeling and assumptions.