OIL FROM ROCK
PLENTY IN AMERICA
SHALE RESERVES IN ROCKIES
NEW YORK. When U.S. oil wells give out, the country still will have an oil reserve of 100,000,000,000 barrels ('160,000,000,000 hectolitres) according to some estimates of the amount of oil shale in the United States. Oil has been extracted experimentally from this shale at comparatively low cost.
Large quantities of the oil shale are found in the Rocky Mountain States of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The United States Bureau of Mines has produced gasoline from this shale oil, experimentally, for eight cents a gallon (two cents a litre). This gasoline did not measure up to standard, but the United States Congress recently authorised largescale experiments by the bureau, with a view to working out new and improved extracting and refining methods. Oil is extracted from crushed shale by heatinn in retorts.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 251, 23 October 1944, Page 2
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