Oil Sands: "The output of marketable oil sands increased to 1.126 million barrels
per day in 2006. The Oil Sands yield could be even more as some
estimates anticipate that the level of production could reach 3 million
barrels per day by 2020 and some more optimistic estimates say the oil
sands production could be at 5 million barrels per day by 2030,"  This is from the Canadian Oil Sands, the largest deposit in the world.
http://www.jobmonkey.com/oilindustry/html/canadian_oil.html

Oil Shale: I was unable to find barrel production numbers for oil shale collectively, but China produced some 2.5 Million tons per year, http://www.ceri-mines.org/R02c-JialinQian.pdf.pdf

Estonia produced around 12.5 Million tons in a year http://www.kirj.ee/public/oilshale/ed-page6.html

The yield of various oil shales varies greatly, so I don't have a good means of calculating the raw tonnage of shale production to barrels of oil.  The American shales in Wyoming are between 10 and 60 gallons per ton.  So based on the above numbers, theoretically 14.5 million tons would be between 145 and 870 gallons per ton.  Barrel = 55 gallons, so 2,636,363 to15,818,181 barrels per YEAR.  So in barrels per day,  7,222 to 43,337.  That's very small, but Estonia and other Eastern European countries often burn oil shale directly, instead of using the extracted petroleum (and instead of coal).  So the tonnage might actually be more comparable to coal.
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