Notes and Sources

60.  This discussion is based largely on data from U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, Strategic Significance of America’s Oil Shale Resource, Volume II, Oil Shale Resources, Technology and Economics (Washington, DC, March 2004), web site www.fossil.energy.gov/ programs/reserves/npr/publications/npr_strategic_ significancev2.pdf. 

61.  The Fischer assay is a standardized laboratory test for determining oil and natural gas yields from oil shale rock. 

62.  Energy Information Administration, Advance Summary, U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves, 2007 Annual Report, DOE/EIA-0216(2007) Advance Summary (Washington, DC, October 2008), Table 1, p. 5, web site www.eia.gov/ pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/data_publications/advanced_ summary/current/adsum.pdf.