Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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On Jordan’s energy history Energy is a major challenge to our budget. We import 97% of our total energy needs. The remaining 3% is made of natural gas produced locally at the Risha field in the eastern desert near the border with Iraq. Various energy shocks led to our National Energy Strategy: Increasing...
Jordan imports most of its gas from Egypt through the Arab Gas Pipeline (approx.. 3 billion cubic meters – close to 80 percent of its domestic gas consumption from a total of 95 percent – at a cost of nearly a quarter of its GDP). The Arab Spring that forced President...
Queensland's Natural Resources and Mines Minister, Andrew Cripps, said the new oil shale policy sets rigorous environmental controls on the industry and will allow existing oil shale operator QER Limited to progress its trial plant at Gladstone to commercial stage. “Queensland currently has around...
San Leon Energy in an update of its initial study of the Tarfaya Oil Shale, Morocco has said that yield results from the data samples from the R1 and R3 reservoir zones suggest that an oil yield of 72 litres of oil per ton of extracted material is achievable. Preliminary modeling of the project confirmed...
Global Oil Shale Holdings (GOSH) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Jordan to explore and develop two oil shale blocks; Attarat Umm Ghudran and Isfir Al Mahatta in the central and southern regions of the country. Jordan is poised to be the 'First to...
ONGC Videsh (OVL) is expected to explore for unconventional energy resources like oil sands, shale gas and liquids, company’s director (exploration) Narendra K Verma said in a statement posted on the firm’s website. “Optimal mix of conventional and newly emergent unconventional hydrocarbon...
Jordan and China have taken the first steps towards building the world’s second-largest oil shale power plant, energy officials announced, just days after a similar joint project between the Kingdom and an Estonian firm was unveiled. The Chinese-owned firm Lejjun Oil Shale Investments and the...
Linc Energy has discovered a “significant” oil shale deposit within the Stuart Range Formation in South Australia“We need to define this resource. We’ve got at least a year or two of detailed exploration and definition work,” said Craig Ricato, legal and corporate affairs director at Linc.Linc...
Thailand’s PTTEP Canada, along with Sinochem and Japan Canada Oil Sands, have expressed interest in investing in various plays across Canada."We're open to opportunities both in conventional and unconventional resources, including shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane, oilsands, oil shale ... and...
The Oil Shale Market 2011-2021By: Matthew Jones, VisiongainGlobal oil shale resources are enormous, standing at around 4.8 trillion barrels according to the World Energy Council’s Survey of Energy Resources 2010 (WEC SER 2010). Though it is unclear precisely what percentage of these resources is...