The Williston Basin includes oil shale and other oil and gas assets.

Tight oil should not be confused with oil shale, which contains kerogen.

They also support development of oil shale fields in the West.

Its oil shale assets include prospective acreage in Saskatchewan and Wyoming.

Commercial oil shale production is still several years away as it is not technologically viable.

The remnants of mysterious prehistoric beasts crumbled into pieces like the oil shale around them.

The government estimates the oil shale industry would use 200 million gallons of water a day.

The Company operates non-conventional projects, such as tight oil , oil shale, shale oil and shale gas.

Many are extraordinarily well-preserved thanks to the unique conditions of the oil shale in the pit.

Allred said it was important to establish these rules even though no commercial oil shale development currently exists.

The Company provides infrastructure solutions to service natural gas and crude oil shale plays across the United States.

Separately, Vickery said the department's plan to develop oil shale fields in the western United States would also continue.

With oil prices hitting record highs, the extraction of tar sands and oil shale is an increasingly attractive option.

Pickens said his other shale holdings are in an oil shale field, but he declined to name the field.

They are oil shale at 131.3, found in EU-member Estonia, and coal-to-liquid at 172.

They are oil shale at 131.3 and coal-to-liquid at 172.