Show i E Shale To Bec Become me me Source I Of F Future ture Oil ad Supply I When the flow tIow of that liquid gold moan lOwn as petroleum gives gi sign of and as a consequence e the and hum of the country's mill- mill l G hir r I L of automobiles and motor buss- buss i kos fl ns j and 2nd nd tractors seem likely to desist tor for lack lack of fuel the stretching far-stretching f of oil ell sh shale le in the United J mires I Lica the most r I tea stand out as aa import- import 11 et t resources of substitutes for fOl pet petroleum pe- pe t oils olIs states the bureau of ot tines clues These veritable untapped reservoirs of oil underlie enormous of country Those of the most ar yeas I economic importance occur in iu Colorado Colorado Colo- Colo rado Nevada Utah and Wyoming I G Great t areas of black shale occur I 1 io Ter in various eastern states 1 f r Kentucky Indiana and Ohio Onlo The file great economic Importance of poi stales Is that when the industry properly r b properly developed the me United I Slates sates will wUl have a new domestic c sup sup- I Il r f P pry 1 of mineral oils which cannot be beL I 1 Ir L l teat plod off in time of war and which t I tI f r come rese what may will always be meet the Nations Nation's deI derand de- de I ready Wady to help rand Eind for tor oil no matter what the I orld's petroleum situation may boo bo The future of the oil shale Indus- Indus In this country the bur bureau of sloes dues nes considers will depend primarily I ly 1 upon the relative supply of and demand for petroleum prod products ud r particularly In the regions remoTe r from iron seaboard There Is good reason llo to believe that In the next several i years fears the domestic production of pet petroleum petroleum pe pe- pe- pe t will decrease while the do- do for its products will increase Iud oil can well make mako up for tor forthe the tto deficiency of crude petroleum as 13 ji refined mineral oil products prof pro- pro f nets ducts Even under the most favor favor- favor favor- favorable able We condition development of an American shale oil-shale must be slow a althis although al- al though this can be hastened by the i employment of trained highly ape ape- specialists i the proper kind of experimental experimental experimental mental work and sincere cooperation tion and mutual helpful helpfulness i l among I Ih la h shale oil operators I I Large sums of money will have tole toto to to le invested Industry In in- i before the shale oil-shale J becomes one or of Important consideration It is probable that th the investment I liry Lary for an shale oil retorting and I refining plant lant will wUl approximate WOO 1000 per barrel of shale o oil l daily i capacity i. i The present annual domestic output output out out- put pct of petroleum is at the rate of I I Ofer Ter barrels and to replace re re- replace place that production with shale oil require nearly 1100 shale ro rotating re- re r lOlling lofting plants each putting th through ough It 1000 tons of shale dally daily every day I Ha In the year This Is assuming that the shale fields two forty gallons of oil per to lon The total quantity of shale mined Blued would be over laD Ions wu which approaches the annual r wl Coal Production i The e investment In retorts and re re- re fineries alone for for foral an al Industry of this magnitude would b bo bb over This does not include estimated estimated esti esti- mated cost of lands opening up and developing m mines nes or transportation and marketing facilities n neither does It t include the cost of developing develop develop- ing subsidiary Industries without which la a shale oil industry could not exist Oil shale shalo is a compact laminated rock of sedimentary origin yielding over 33 per cent of ash and containing contain contain- ing lug organic matter that yields oil on when distilled but not appreciably when extracted with the ordinary solvents for p petroleum t oleum Oil on shale occurs in many parts of oJ the world but the shale deposits of oJ Scotland because of their having been the basis of a a. commercial Industry industry Indus Indus- try for many years are the most I widely known The ho worked at present present I in Scotland yield about about twenty-five twenty United States gallons gallons gallons gal gal- lons and thirty-six thirty pounds of ammonium ammonium ammo animo- ni m sulphate to the short ton Value Long Known Oil on shale deposits have been worked worked work work- ed in a small way in trio county of or Dorset in England from time to time for centuries OH Oil shale deposits deposits depos depos- its of importance occur In the Canadian Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and In New South Wales Vales and Queensland in Australia Shale deposits In the provinces provinces' ot of Allier and Saone et Loire l Franco France ranco have been worked for more than hall halt halla I a century Large deposits of shalo exist In Jugo Slavia Spain Sweden Bulgaria Germany Italy Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land Esthonia Brazil and other countries In the United States the largest oil all are in the Rocky Hocky mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain r region glon and belong to the Green river formation In northwestern Col Col- orado southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah The Green river formation contains persistent beds bells up to nine forty forty feet feet thick feet thick that that will wilt wll yield at t least thirty-five thirty gallons ot of crude oil to the ton More thorough surveying and sampling campling may discover thicker seams of equal or greater richness A recently recently recently re re- discovered foot 20 seam yielded yield yield- ed over oyer sixty gallons of or oil to the theton theton theton ton by laboratory test In Colorado the Green river formation attains a 3 maximum thickness of about 2600 feet Some beds most of or too thin to be worked commercially h have v yielded up to ninety gallons of oil to tho the ton in laboratory tests and It Is it safe to assume that the Green Greer river formation contains enough shale of ot workable thickness to supply a largo amount of material that for many years will yield over thirty-five thirty gallons gallons gal gal- lons Ions to the ton These will wUl also also also al al- so yield per pcr ton upward of twenty l pounds of ammon ammonium um sulphate valuable vat val I for fertilizer purposes |