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How much Shale oil is India producing?
How did India make Shale oil cost effective?
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Oil Shale extraction.
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Right now, India is not producing Shale Oil of any form. They are in the preliminary stages of prospecting the Indian Oil Shale reserves.
The oil shale reserves in India are estimated in more than 15 billion tons, especially those in the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh deposits, which are likely to produce 140 million tones per year for the next 100 years. This is more than India's entire current oil consumption.
The rich deposits of the North East India regions are part of the Barail Formation of the Tertiary age. The Carbonaceous Shale is interbedded with the coal. Shale formations emerge on the surface south of the oil fields in a zone called the Belt of Schuppen.
The potential locations for finding shale oil are:
* Assam Shelf
* Naga Schuppen Belt
* Assam-Arakkan Fold Belt
The Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is currently evaluation the oil shale resources and their potential with a prospecting project in the Upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh region. This project consists of three phases:
* Phase I (September 2007 to October 2009)
Signing of the contract to start the oil shale project in September, 2007 between DGH and a consortium of BRGM from France and MECL from India for the assessment of oil shale resources in three adjacent blocks, covering an area of 250 square kilometers, including geological mapping, sampling and geochemical analysis, shallow geophysical survey, shallow drilling, development of 3-D model and preliminary environmental studies. The geological mapping and sampling program is already in progress.
* Phase II (November 2009 to October 2011)
Once the resources of oil shale in the three blocks is determined they will proceed with the techno-economic feasibility study for extraction of shale oil from these deposits; an environmental impact assessment study; a framing of legislation for simultaneous extraction of coal and oil shale deposits; preparation of Model Production Sharing Contract, and delineation of blocks for offer under a first round of bidding for Oil Shale.
* Phase III (November 2011 to June 2012)
The announcement of the first round of bidding for the oil shale will take place; lastly, the final evaluation of bids and the awarding of the blocks.
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Right now, India is not producing Shale Oil of any form. They are in the preliminary stages of prospecting the Indian Oil Shale reserves.
The oil shale reserves in India are estimated in more than 15 billion tons, especially those in the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh deposits, which are likely to produce 140 million tones per year for the next 100 years. This is more than India's entire current oil consumption.
The rich deposits of the North East India regions are part of the Barail Formation of the Tertiary age. The Carbonaceous Shale is interbedded with the coal. Shale formations emerge on the surface south of the oil fields in a zone called the Belt of Schuppen.
The potential locations for finding shale oil are:
* Assam Shelf
* Naga Schuppen Belt
* Assam-Arakkan Fold Belt
The Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is currently evaluation the oil shale resources and their potential with a prospecting project in the Upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh region. This project consists of three phases:
* Phase I (September 2007 to October 2009)
Signing of the contract to start the oil shale project in September, 2007 between DGH and a consortium of BRGM from France and MECL from India for the assessment of oil shale resources in three adjacent blocks, covering an area of 250 square kilometers, including geological mapping, sampling and geochemical analysis, shallow geophysical survey, shallow drilling, development of 3-D model and preliminary environmental studies. The geological mapping and sampling program is already in progress.
* Phase II (November 2009 to October 2011)
Once the resources of oil shale in the three blocks is determined they will proceed with the techno-economic feasibility study for extraction of shale oil from these deposits; an environmental impact assessment study; a framing of legislation for simultaneous extraction of coal and oil shale deposits; preparation of Model Production Sharing Contract, and delineation of blocks for offer under a first round of bidding for Oil Shale.
* Phase III (November 2011 to June 2012)
The announcement of the first round of bidding for the oil shale will take place; lastly, the final evaluation of bids and the awarding of the blocks.
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Global refining capacity is expected to increase by 1.8 MBPD in 2009, with Asia accounting for 80% of the increase, as per IEA. Forecasts for investments in the industry are to add 6.9 MBPD of crude distillation capacity between 2009 and 2013, which significantly outpaces expected demand growth. However, projects beyond 2009-2010 face the risk of getting cancelled or deferred due to credit crunch and weak economic outlook.
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Cost per barrel will be hard to estimate now, primarily since it is tied with the daily price on barrel oil at world markets; secondly, we may take into consideration that its already well known that Shale Oil extraction cost almost twice as much as conventional Well oil extraction, plus there are some other environmental considerations for this type of process. It is of common knowledge now that Shale Oil extraction brings a lot of damage to the environment (take the example of the Tar sands of Alberta, Canada), with the way land is used, the waste disposal, water use, waste-water management, the greenhouse-gas emissions and air pollution, among other concerns.
As for the process itself, it’s pretty much straight forward nowadays. Is more like a mining process than a perforation process. Shale Oil is embedded in soft rock, it is a fine-grained sedimentary rock and as Tar sands, it needs to be extracted, pulverized and with a water steam process is separated to extract the liquid hydrocarbons. Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill to yield shale oil similar to petroleum.
Oil shale has gained a lot of attention lately because the price of conventional sources of petroleum has risen, so it’s an alternative for those countries wanting to secure independence from external suppliers of energy.
Oil Shale extraction process.
Excellent answer.
India has alot of geothermal energy potential, so the energy to produce steam is readily available. Steam seems to be the biggest cost barrier to extracting the tar and shale oil.
India will be the largest refiner of gasoline in the world. If India can extract its own oil then it is in a great position to become a major gasoline exporter.
Your welcome.
Yes they will become the largest refiner of gasoline in the world. They got the third largest refinery in the world, the Reliance Industries refinery in Jamnagar, India, processing 661,000 barrels per day.