{"id":1819,"date":"2005-10-03T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2005-10-03T00:06:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:06:20","slug":"oil_shale_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Oil Shale: Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Denver during the mid 1980&#8217;s, I learned quite a bit about that era&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denver-rmn.com\/millennium\/1005mile.shtml\">oil shale collapse<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/S\/SHALE_UNLOCKING_THE_ROCK?SITE=FLROC&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Paul Foy takes a look<\/a> at the growing interest in this potential 1 trillion barrel reserve (4X Saudi Arabia&#8217;s holdings):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Shell believes it can make its technique economical as long as crude oil stays above $30 a barrel, but it is five years away from proving the technology or deciding whether to build a commercial-scale operation, said Terry O&#8217;Connor, a company vice president for external and regulatory affairs.<br \/>\nOutside Vernal, Utah, officials with Oil-Tech Inc. say they have perfected an older technology of baking oil from shale in a furnace and wants government approval to mine 1,600 acres of state land plus access to 30,000 tons of shale left outside an abandoned mine on federal land.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Denver during the mid 1980&#8217;s, I learned quite a bit about that era&#8217;s oil shale collapse. Paul Foy takes a look at the growing interest in this potential 1 trillion barrel reserve (4X Saudi Arabia&#8217;s holdings): Shell believes it can make its technique economical as long as crude oil stays above $30 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}