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单词 shale oil
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Definition of shale oil in English:

shale oil

noun
mass noun
  • Oil obtained from bituminous shale.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Two other potential energy strikes are tight sands and shale oil, where rock must be fractured using high-pressure water or chemicals to loosen up the reserves.
    • The targets are oil, coal, shale oil, and, if you believe the oil industry's press releases, the largest trove of natural gas on the continent.
    • Coal tar and soot were implicated in the elevated skin cancer incidence found in the refining, shale oil, and coal tar industries in the late nineteenth century.
    • ‘Our coal reserves could supply our needs for 300 years, while shale oil could satisfy an additional 130 years of demand,’ Nixon promised.
    • In fact, local environmentalists are now fighting a plan to start mining shale oil in the rainforests of North Queensland, arguing that the last thing the world needs is new sources of fossil fuels.
    • The fuels can be fabricated without environmental impact from widely available coal and shale oil with new technologies that capture emissions.
    • Reserves of shale oil, also known as kerogen, are extensive, especially in North America.
    • There are more expensive fuel sources, such as shale oil, or alternatives, such as renewable energy sources, coal and nuclear power.
    • Retorting is the process of using heat to decompose the kerogen, converting it into a liquid called shale oil.
    • The first oil refinery in Australia to contain a catalytic cracking unit was at Glen Davis, producing 160000 barrels a day of crude shale oil.
    • Deep-ocean wells, tar sands and shale oil are all there, but some of them require the use of nine barrels of oil to drill, mine, process and transport 10 barrels of product.
    • Additionally, as Bartlett notes, unconventional fossil fuels, such as heavy oil, tar sands, shale oil, represent an even larger resource.
    • Two important alternatives to current oil reserves are shale oil and tar sands.
    • It takes so much energy to get the oil out that the more oil prices rise, the more the cost of shale oil will rise ahead of them.
 
 

Definition of shale oil in US English:

shale oil

nounˈSHāl ˌoil
  • Oil obtained from bituminous shale.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Retorting is the process of using heat to decompose the kerogen, converting it into a liquid called shale oil.
    • The targets are oil, coal, shale oil, and, if you believe the oil industry's press releases, the largest trove of natural gas on the continent.
    • The fuels can be fabricated without environmental impact from widely available coal and shale oil with new technologies that capture emissions.
    • Deep-ocean wells, tar sands and shale oil are all there, but some of them require the use of nine barrels of oil to drill, mine, process and transport 10 barrels of product.
    • Two other potential energy strikes are tight sands and shale oil, where rock must be fractured using high-pressure water or chemicals to loosen up the reserves.
    • Two important alternatives to current oil reserves are shale oil and tar sands.
    • There are more expensive fuel sources, such as shale oil, or alternatives, such as renewable energy sources, coal and nuclear power.
    • Coal tar and soot were implicated in the elevated skin cancer incidence found in the refining, shale oil, and coal tar industries in the late nineteenth century.
    • Additionally, as Bartlett notes, unconventional fossil fuels, such as heavy oil, tar sands, shale oil, represent an even larger resource.
    • The first oil refinery in Australia to contain a catalytic cracking unit was at Glen Davis, producing 160000 barrels a day of crude shale oil.
    • It takes so much energy to get the oil out that the more oil prices rise, the more the cost of shale oil will rise ahead of them.
    • Reserves of shale oil, also known as kerogen, are extensive, especially in North America.
    • ‘Our coal reserves could supply our needs for 300 years, while shale oil could satisfy an additional 130 years of demand,’ Nixon promised.
    • In fact, local environmentalists are now fighting a plan to start mining shale oil in the rainforests of North Queensland, arguing that the last thing the world needs is new sources of fossil fuels.
 
 
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