How to Use oil shale in a Sentence

oil shale

noun
Definition of oil shalenext
  • Without the water, though, the oil shale project would be dead.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
  • The uranium rush was out of sight in the future as was the demand for oil shale and oil sands.
    — Ted Trueblood, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The molecules could have come from something like kerogen, a component of fossil fuel that is found in coal and oil shale.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Vast resources remain in place in Utah, including a billion barrels of oil in the Uinta Basin and the world’s largest deposits of oil shale and lesser amounts of tar sands.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • While the Eagle Ford oil shale bonanza drew most of the attention in Karnes County over the past decade, farms and ranches still occupy 85 percent of the land.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 17 July 2022
  • The Permian is currently the most productive, and cost-effective, oil shale reserve in the U.S.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 June 2022
  • Ida-Virumaa’s rich oil shale deposits make the country nearly the highest per capita carbon emitter in Europe.
    — Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The agreement cut production by 9.7 million barrels a day, which may raise oil prices enough to restore profitability to oil shale producers.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Other companies could jump in with their own solvents, especially since Utah offers sizable tax credits for mining oil sands and oil shale.
    — Clifford Krauss, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Those unconventional resources include tar sands and oil shale.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • In the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Inhofe fought to include specific language encouraging greater reliance on alternative oil sources such as oil shale.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Compare, for example, Switzerland’s exceptionally low-carbon grid to Estonia’s, which runs primarily on oil shale.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2020

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