Oil Shale Bibliography
Selected References— Revised March 2017
These bibliographic references have been compiled as a TSOP project, and organic petrologists have found the references to be useful in their work. They should be available at university or geological research center libraries. They are not available from TSOP.
Allix, P., A. Burnham, T. Fowler, M. Herron, R. Kleinberg, and B. Symington, 2010, Coaxing oil from shale: Oilfield Review, v. 22, no. 4, p. 4-15.
Alnawafleh, H.M., and F.Y. Fraige, 2015, Shale oil solvent extraction of central Jordan El-Lajjun oil shale: Journal of Analytical Sciences, Methods and Instrumentation, v. 5, p. 35-43.
Alqudah, M., M.A. Hussein, S. van den Boorn, V.M. Giraldo, S. Kolonic, O.G. Podlaha, and J. Mutterlose, 2014, Eocene oil shales from Jordan — Paleoenvironmental implications from reworked microfossils: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 52, p. 93-106.
Alqudah, M., M.A. Hussein, S. van den Boom, O.G. Podlaha, and J. Mutterlose, 2015, Biostratigraphy and depositional setting of Maastrichtian — Eocene oil shales from Jordan: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 60, p. 87-104.
Amer, M.W., M. Marshall, Y. Fei, W.R. Jackson, M.L. Gorbaty, P.J. Cassidy, and A.L. Chaffee, 2014, A comparison of the structure and reactivity of five Jordanian oil shales from different locations: Fuel, v. 119, p. 313-322.
Andersson, Astrid, and others, 1985, The Scandinavian alum shales: Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Avhandlingar Och Uppsatser I A4, Ser. Ca, nr. 56, 50 p.
Anonymous, 2005, Study assesses future for oil shales: American Oil & Gas Reporter, v. 48, no. 10, p. 171-172.
Anonymous, 2009, NOSA provides facts about oil shale: American Oil & Gas Reporter, v. 52, no. 4, p. 175-176.
Anonymous, 2009, Report estimates shale oil resource: American Oil & Gas Reporter, v. 52, no. 5, p. 43.
ASTM, 1980, Standard method of test for oil from oil shale: Annual Book of American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards, Part 25, D 3904-80, p. 513-515.
Bai, F., W. Guo, X. Lu, Y. Liu, M. Guo, Q. Li, and Y. Sun, 2015, Kinetic study on the pyrolysis behavior of Huadian oil shale via non-isothermal thermogravimetric data: Fuel, v. 146, p. 111-118.
Bai, F., Y. Sun, Y. Liu, and M. Guo, 2016, Evaluation of the porous structure of Huadian oil shale during pyrolysis using multiple approaches: Fuel, v. 187, p. 1-8.
Bauert, H., 1994, The Baltic oil shale basin: an overview, in Proceedings 1993 Eastern Oil Shale Symposium: Lexington, University of Kentucky Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, p. 411-421.
Bechtel, A., J. Jia, S.A.I. Strobl, R.F. Sachsenhofer, Z. Liu, R. Gratzer, and W. Püttmann, 2012, Palaeoenvironmental conditions during deposition of the Upper Cretaceous oil shale sequences in the Songliao Basin (NE China): Implications from geochemical analysis: Organic Geochemistry, v. 46, p. 76-95.
Biglarbigi, K., H. Mohan, and J. Killen, 2009, Oil shale—1. US, world possess rich resource base: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 107.3, p. 56-61.
Biglarbigi, K., H. Mohan, M. Carolus, and J. Killen, 2009, Oil shale—3. Analytic approach estimates oil shale development economics: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 107.5, p. 48-53.
Biglarbigi, K., J. Killen, and M. Carolus, 2010, Analysis sees potential for shale oil: American Oil & Gas Reporter, v. 53, no. 2, p. 62-67.
Birdwell, J.E., T.J. Mercier, R.C. Johnson, and M.E. Brownfield, 2013, In-place oil shale resources examined by grade in the major basins of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 2012-3145, 3 p.
Birdwell, J.E., T.J. Mercier, R.C. Johnson, and M.E. Brownfield, 2015, In-place oil shale resources of the Mahogany zone, Green River Formation, sorted by grade, overburden thickness, and stripping ratio, Piceance Basin, Colorado, and Unita Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 2015-3005, 6 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2015/3005/
Birdwell, J.E., and K.E. Washburn, 2015, Multivariate analysis relating oil shale geochemical properties to NMR relaxometry: Energy & Fuels, v. 29, p. 2234-2243.
Birdwell, J.E., M.D. Vanden Berg, R.C. Johnson, T.J. Mercier, A.R. Boehlke, and M.E. Brownfield, 2016, Geological, geochemical, and reservoir characterization of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, in M.P. Dolan, D.K. Higley, and P.G. Lillis, eds., Hydrocarbon source rocks in unconventional plays, Rocky Mountain region: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists.
Boak, J., 2008, Estimate of carbon dioxide production for in-situ production of shale oil from the Green River Formation in western Colorado: Proceedings of the 27th Oil Shale Symposium, Colorado Energy Research Institute Document 2008-1, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (CD-ROM) http://www.ceri-mines.org/oilshaleresearch.htm
Boak, J., 2009, One million barrels of shale oil per day: How and how soon?: Oil Shale Symposium, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2009.
Boak, J., and E. Mattson, 2010, Water use for in-situ production of oil from oil shale: Proceedings of the 29th Oil Shale Symposium, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (CD-ROM)
Boak, J., 2014, Shale-hosted hydrocarbons and hydraulic fracturing, in T.M. Letcher, ed., Future energy, second edition: New York, Elsevier, p. 117-143.
Boak, J., and S. Poole, 2015, Mineralogy of the Green River Formation in the Piceane Creek Basin, Colorado, in M.E. Smith and A.R. Carroll, eds., Stratigraphy and paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, western USA: New York, Springer, Syntheses in Limnogeology v. 1, p. 183-209.
Boak, J., S. Poole, and J. Feng, 2016, Geochemistry of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, in M.P. Dolan, D.K. Higley, and P.G. Lillils, eds., Hydrocarbon source rocks in unconventional plays, Rocky Mountain Region: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 295-318.
Boak, J. and R. Kleinberg, 2016, Shale- and mudstone-hosted oil and gas, in M. Riazi, ed., Exploration and Production of Petroleum and Natural Gas, MNL7320140013: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, p. 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1520/MNL7320140013
Borrego, A.G., H.W. Hagemann, J.G. Prado, M.D. Guillén, and C.G. Blanco, 1996, Comparative petrographic and geochemical study of the Puertollano oil shale kerogens: Organic Geochemistry, v. 24, p. 309-321.
Bradley, W.H., 1931, Origin and microfossils of the oil shale of the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 168.
Brendow, K., 2003, Global oil shale issues and perspectives: Oil Shale, v. 20, p. 81-92.
Brownfield, M.E., Johnson, R.C., Self, J.G., and Mercier, T.J., 2009, Nahcolite resources in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, northwestern Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009–3011, 4 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3011/
Brownfield, M.E., J.G. Self, and T.J. Mercier, 2011, Fischer Assay histograms of oil-shale drill cores and rotary cuttings from the Great Divide, Green River, and Washakie Basins, southwestern Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey, Digital Data Series DDS-69-DD, chapter 6, 9 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-dd/REPORTS/69_DD_CH_6.pdf
Bunger, J.W., P.M. Crawford, and H.R. Johnson, 2004, Hubbert revisited—5. Is oil shale America’s answer to peak-oil challenge?: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 102.30, p. 16-18, 20, 22-24. (http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/reserves/publications/Pubs-NPR/40010-373.pdf)
Burnham, A.K., 1995, Chemical kinetics and oil shale process design, in C. Snape, ed., Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Composition, Geochemistry, and Conversion of Oil Shales: Akcay, Turkey, July 1993, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 263-276.
Burnham, A.K., and J.R. McConaghy, 2014, Semi-open pyrolysis of oil shale from the Garden Gulch Member of the Green River Formation: Energy & Fuels, v. 28, p. 7426-7439.
Burnham, A., 2015, Then and now: An EMD perspective on oil shale: AAPG Explorer, v. 36, no. 5, p. 70, 69. http://www.aapg.org/publications/news/explorer/column/articleid/19661/then-and-now-an-emd-perspective-on-oil-shale
Cane, R.F., 1976, The origin and formation of oil shale, in T.F. Yen and G.V. Chilingarian, eds., Oil shale: Elsevier, p. 27-60.
Cao, X., J.E. Birdwell, M.A. Chappell, Y. Li, J. Pignatello, and J. Mao, 2013, Characterization of oil shale, isolated kerogen, and postpyrolysis residues using advanced 13C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: AAPG Bulletin, v. 97, p. 421-436.
Cardott, B.J., 2005, Overview of unconventional energy resources of Oklahoma, in B.J. Cardott, ed., Unconventional energy resources in the southern Midcontinent, 2004 symposium: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 110, p. 7-18.
Carroll, A.R., 2009, Prospects and progress in the Green River Formation oil shale, western United States, in T. Carr, T. D’Agostino, W. Ambrose, J. Pashin, and N.C. Rosen, eds., Unconventional energy resources: making the unconventional conventional: 29th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, CD-ROM, p. 388-395.
Cashion, W.B., and J.R. Donnell, 1972, Chart showing correlation of selected key units in the organic-rich sequence of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, and Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey, Oil and Gas Investigations Chart OC-65.
Charpentier, R.R., W. de Witt, Jr., G.E. Claypool, L.D. Harris, R.F. Mast, J.D. Megeath, J.B. Roen, and J.W. Schmoker, 1993, Estimates of unconventional natural gas resources of the Devonian shales of the Appalachian Basin, in J.B. Roen and R.C. Kepferle, eds., Petroleum geology of the Devonian and Mississippian black shale of eastern North America: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1909, p. N1-N14.
Chidsey, T.C., Jr., 2012, Oil shale vs. shale oil: what’s the difference?: Utah Geological Survey, Survey Notes, v. 44, no. 3, p. 6-7. http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/snt44-3.pdf
Clark, J.R., 2007, Task force: US can shrink oil gap with unconventional fuels: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 105.41, p. 20-26.
Clark, J.R., 2008, Nuclear heat advances oil shale refining in situ: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 106.30, p. 22-24.
Cole, R.D., 1985, Depositional environments of oil shale in the Green River Formation, Douglas Creek arch, Colorado and Utah, in M.D. Picard, ed., Geology and energy resources, Uinta Basin of Utah: Utah Geological Association Publication 12, p. 211-224.
Colorado School of Mines, 1968, Proceedings of the first five oil shale symposia, 1964-1968: Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines, v. 59 no. 3, v. 60 no. 3, v. 61 no. 3, v. 62 no. 3, v. 63 no. 4.
Conant, L.C., and V.E. Swanson, 1961, Chattanooga Shale and related rocks of central Tennessee and nearby areas: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 357, 91 p. (see p. 3)
Condit, D.D., 1919, Oil shale in western Montana, southeastern Idaho, and adjacent parts of Wyoming and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 711-B, p. 15-40.
Cook, A.C., 1980, Optical techniques for the examination of organic matter in oil shales, in A.C. Cook and A. Kantsler, eds., Oil shale petrology workshop: Wollongong, Keiraville Kopiers, p. 1-15.
Cook, A.C., A.C. Hutton, and N.R. Sherwood, 1981, Classification of oil shales: Bulletin Des Centres De Recherches Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine, v. 5, p. 353-381.
Cook, A.C., and N.R. Sherwood, 1991, Classification of oil shales, coals, and other organic-rich rocks: Organic Geochemistry, v. 17, p. 211-222.
Crawford, P.M., K. Biglarbigi, E. Knaus, and J. Killen, 2009, Oil shale—2. New approaches overcome past technical issues: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 107.4, p. 44-49.
Crisp, P.T., J. Ellis, A.C. Hutton, J. Korth, F.A. Martin, and J.D. Saxby, 1987, Australian oil shales: a compendium of geological and chemical data: CSIRO Institute of Energy and Earth Resources, Division of Fossil Fuels, North Ryde, NSW, Australia, 109 p.
Curiale, J.C., and M.R. Gibling, 1994, Productivity control on oil shale formation to Mae Sot Basin, Thailand: Organic Geochemistry, v. 21, p. 67-89.
Derenne, S., C. Largeau, E. Casadevall, C. Berkaloff, and B. Rousseau, 1991, Chemical evidence of kerogen formation in source rocks and oil shales via selective preservation of thin resistant outer walls of microalgae: origin of ultralaminae: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 55, p. 1041-1050.
Dittrick, P., 2008, US oil shale resources look promising yet still uncertain: Oil & Gas Journal, v. 106.39, p. 22-26.
Donnell, J.R., and R.W. Blair, 1970, Resource appraisal of three rich oil-shale zones in the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado: Colorado School of Mines Quarterly, v. 65, p. 73-87.
Donnell, J.R., 1991, Oil shale, in H.J. Gluskoter, D.D. Rice, and R.B. Taylor, eds., Economic geology, U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. P-2, p. 183-188.
Duey, R., 2010, Oil shale may put Jordan on the road to energy independence: Hart’s E&P, v. 83, no. 1, p. 63.
Duncan, D.C., and V.E. Swanson, 1965, Organic-rich shale of the United States and world land areas: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 523, 30 p.
Duncan, D.C., 1976, Geologic setting of oil shales and world prospects, in T.F. Yen and G.V. Chilingarian, eds., Oil shale: Elsevier, p. 13-26.
Dushenko, V., H. Mere, I. Shcheglov, T. Tiikma, and A. Vrager, 2004, Laboratory test rig for combusting Estonian oil shale in circulating fluidized bed: Oil Shale, v. 21, p. 161-172.
Dyni, J.R., and others, 1989, Comparison of hydroretorting, Fischer assay, and Rock-Eval analyses of some world oil shales, in Proceedings 1989 Eastern Oil Shale Symposium: Lexington, University of Kentucky Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, p. 270-286.
Dyni, J.R., ed., 2003, Unconventional energy resources of North America: AAPG Special Publication, EMD Poster.
Dyni, J.R., 2003, Geology and resources of some world oil-shale deposits: Oil Shale, v. 20, p. 193-252.
Dyni, J.R., 2006, Oil shale developments in the United States: Oil Shale, v. 23, p. 97-98.
Dyni, J.R., and R.C. Johnson, 2006, Will oil shale be a major player?: AAPG Explorer, v. 27, no. 5, p. 41, 39.
Dyni, J.R., 2006, Geology and resources of some world oil-shale deposits: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5294, 42 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5294/)
Dyni, J.R., 2008, Preliminary stratigraphic cross sections of oil shale in the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Bsain, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1220, 11 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1220/
Ehinola, O.A., O.O. Sonibare, and O.A. Akanbi, 2005, Economic evaluation, recovery techniques and environmental implications of the oil shale deposit in the Abakaliki anticlinorium, southeastern Nigeria: Oil Shale, v. 22, p. 5-19.
Eseme, E., R. Littke, and B.M. Krooss, 2006, Factors controlling the thermo-mechanical deformation of oil shales: implications for compaction of mudstones and exploitation: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 23, p. 715-734.
Fatimah, and C.R. Ward, 2009, Mineralogy and organic petrology of oil shales in the Sangkarewang Formation, Ombilin Basin, west Sumatra, Indonesia: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 77, p. 424-435.
Fei, Y., M. Marshall, W.R. Jackson, M.L. Gorbaty, M.W. Amer, P.J. Cassidy, and A.L. Chaffee, 2012, Evaluation of several methods of extraction of oil from a Jordanian oil shale: Fuel, v. 92, p. 281-287.
Feng, Y., T. Van Le Doan, and A.E. Pomerantz, 2013, The chemical composition of bitumen in pyrolyzed Green River oil shale: Characterization by 13C NMR Spectroscopy: American Chemical Society, Energy & Fuels, v. 27, p. 7314-7323.