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To: TobagoJack who wrote (812)	9/24/2005 5:31:18 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217540

Brazil has the only real working oil shale retorting system in the western hemisphere. www2.petrobras.com.br According to Petroleum News petroleumnews.com New July 2005: <<Surface retorting But despite the obvious benefits of and progress made in heating the shale in situ, nobody’s dismissing surface retorting technologies. A number of retorting techniques exist, one or two of them even being used in pilot projects around the world. In Brazil, for example, a pilot surface retort called the Petrosix process produced the equivalent of 1.4 million barrels of shale oil and other products during 1999.>> nap.edu <<technologies of retorting processing of oil shales are of most interest today: - the process “Petrosix” of “Petrobras” in Brazil; - the process “TOSCO-l l” in the USA; - the process “LURGI” in Germany www.petroleumnews.com/pdfarch/408741589.pdf BRAZIL The oil shale resource base is one of the largest in the world and was first exploited in the late nineteenth century in the State of Bahia. In 1935 shale oil was produced at a small plant in Sìo Mateus do Sul in the State of Paran… and in 1950, following government support, a plant capable of producing 10 000 b/d shale oil was proposed for Trememb», Sìo Paulo. Following the formation of Petrobras in 1953, the company developed the Petrosix process for shale transformation. Concentrating its operations on the reservoir of Sìo Mateus do Sul, the company brought a pilot plant (8 inch internal diameter retort) into operation in 1982. Its purpose is for oil shale characterisation, retorting tests and developing data for economic evaluation of new commercial plants. A 6 foot (internal diameter) retort demonstration plant followed in 1984 and is used for the optimisation of the Petrosix technology. A 2 200 (nominal) tons per day, 18 foot (internal diameter) semi works retort (the Irati Profile Plant), originally brought on line in 1972, began operating on a limited commercial scale in 1981 and a further commercial plant Ò the 36 foot (internal diameter) Industrial Module retort was brought into service in December 1991. Together the two commercial plants process some 7 800 tonnes of bituminous shale daily. The retort process (Petrosix) where the shale undergoes pyrolysis yields a nominal daily output of 3 870 barrels of shale oil, 120 tonnes of fuel gas, 45 tonnes of liquefied shale gas and 75 tonnes of sulphur. Output of shale oil in 1999 was 195.2 thousand tonnes. The Ministry of Mines and Energy quotes end-1999 shale oil reserves as 445.1 million m3 measured/indicated/inventoried and 9 402 million m3 inferred/estimated with shale gas reserves as 111 billion m3 measured/indicated/inventoried and 2 353 billion m3 inferred/estimated. Canadians get their stuff down there to be tested: <<Interest has been shown in the New Brunswick deposits for the potential they might offer to reduce sulphur emissions by co-combustion of carbonate-rich shale residue with high-sulphur coal in power stations>>

To: TobagoJack who wrote (812)	9/24/2005 6:11:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217540

How the Canadians are going to sell a cat for a rabbit to the Chinese. This is a scam to "alleviate" China's pockets!!! The Canadians want to BREX the Chinese, TJ!!!! The oil age will end and this one will stay in the ground. last time I looked to oil sands, coal gaseification was 16 years ago. I did a quick research to see the state of the art of today and the prospects of extracting oil fom it. My conclusion is: The age of oil will not end by the lack of oil. Like the stone age didn't end by the lack of stones. The oil age will end and this one will stay in the ground. NYMBY will prevent any significant investment in the plants. You can't build a mobile site with a small monopole to put MQ CDMA to work in a developed country. You can't expand airports. You can't build new refineries Now consider that: <<The nuclear concept involves firing a deeply buried, totally contained nuclear explosive to fracture the shale, which would then be retorted in place. A number of methods of retorting the broken oil shale, and associated fracture zones are described.>> Wait until those weirdoes from Greenpeace read that. Wait until the efluents are spreading... It is stuff to get rid of Ray Duray via heart attack. These are countries which don't allow drilling in the Artic and in the coast of California.... Estonia, a larger producer, is being forced -by the EU- to shut down its plant... rand.org Look I don't want Coconut to be singing 'El Condor Pasa' on a sidewalk of Canada during winter to get some coins to eat do you? Look carefully before your pockets became "alleviated".