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Development Timeline: Oil Shale Activities in Colorado and Utah

January 2010

The phases of development of a commercial oil shale industry can be broken into three stages: exploration, field-testing, and commercial production.

The diagram at left, based on a recent Department of Energy report profiling current activity in oil shale development, shows that the majority of current oil shale development remains in the very early stages. While a handful of companies reported being active in the field-testing of new technologies in 2009, only one company had announced plans to upscale to a prototype (semi-works scale) facility. Click here for maps showing the location of oil shale deposits (external web site).

Our 2010 update to “Oil Shale in the West: 14 Unanswered Questions” provides more information on the landscape of existing oil shale development activities. You may download this page as a printable pdf.

Resources

Maps Showing Shale Deposits

Report: Oil Shale in the West

Printable PDF of Page

Published on January 26, 2010Posted under Economic DevelopmentTags: Oil & Gas
Author:
Julia Haggerty

For more information about this topic contact:

Kelly Pohl
  • 406.599.7841
  • kelly@headwaterseconomics.org

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