Oil Shale – the Unconventional Which Will Become Conventional by Sandor Liive, Chairman, Eesti Energia
Oil shale – the unconventional which will become conventional By Sandor Liive, Chairman, Eesti Energia efore I explain to you how countries like the US (not to been utilising this resource for almost 100 years. Estonians mention Brazil, Jordan, Morocco and others) will turn are quick to point out that they produce enough power to the tables of the energy world and become significant cover the domestic electricity demand as well as export Boil exporters, I want to make sure that one key term is clear to the neighbouring Baltic energy markets and Finland, all – oil shale. Oil shale is important, much more important than based on oil shale. Estonians have also been commercially most people realise and will become even more important producing shale oil dating back to 1924. China has had in the future. There is a lot of confusion today about what industrial production since 1930, with a reinvigoration in exactly people mean when they talk about oil shale – is it 1989 and the Brazilian company Petrobras has proven its in fact oil, a rock, or are we talking about the new boom shale oil technology since 1981. in shale gas? Oil shale is a sedimentary rock that contains With our long history of development, Enefit, known as significant amounts of kerogen, (organic matter formed from Eesti Energia in Estonia, has been seeking out market fossilised plant matter). Oil shale can be used for energy proven solutions to improve efficiency and environmental production in various ways, but the most common are either performance. In 2008 we started cooperation with Outotec, to produce electricity, through direct combustion of the a world-leading process and plant engineering company with shale rock similar to coal based power, or to produce liquid unsurpassed experience in metals and minerals processing, fuels, the all-important oil, or in this case shale oil.
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