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14-06-2006, 05:34
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The Yukos/MOil Joint Oil Conglomerate has announced the formation of Project Brownhouse.
Project Brownhouse is an initiative by the great minds at YMJOC to develop a more convenient, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly process to mine and refine oil shale.
What IS Oil Shale?
Oil shale is considered to be formed by the deposition of organic matter in lakes, lagoons and restricted estuarine areas such as oxbow lakes and muskegs. Generally, oil shales are considered to be formed by accumulation of algal debris.
When plants die in these peat swamp environments, their biomass is deposited in anaerobic aquatic environments where low oxygen levels prevent their complete decay by bacteria and oxidation. For masses of undecayed organic matter to be preserved and to form oil shale the environment must remain steady for prolonged periods of time to build up sufficiently thick sequences of algal matter. Unlike coal, oil shale does not necessarily require low mineral and ash content, as it is not used for burning, and mineral waste in oil liquefaction plants is easier to deal with.
Eventually, and usually due to the initial onset of orogeny or other tectonic events, the algal swamp-forming environment is disrupted and oil shale accumulation ceases.
Burial by sedimentary loading on top of the algal swamp converts the organic matter to kerogen by the following processes;
-Compaction, due to loading of the sediments on the coal which flattens the organic matter
-Removal of the water held within the peat in between the plant fragments
-With ongoing compaction, removal of water from the inter-cellular structure of fossilized plants
-With heat and compaction, removal of molecular water
-Methanogenesis; similar to treating wood in a pressure cooker, methane is produced, which removes hydrogen and some carbon, and some further oxygen (as water)
-Dehydration, which removes hydroxyl groups from the cellulose and other plant molecules, resulting in the production of hydrogen-reduced coals
However the heat and pressure were not as great as in the similar process that forms petroleum. Oil shale is known as 'rock that burns'.
What will Project Brownhouse attempt to do?
Currently, oil share is not profitable to mine. Project Brownhouse seeks to discover, invent, or retool technology to allow the profitable mining of oil shale in this oil-consuming global market. Project Brownhouse seeks countries with large oil shale deposits to lease or sell their land to YMJOC. In exchange for the amount of contribution a nation or company extends YMJOC, they will be compensated with a percentage of the crude extracted from the shale or the rights to the technology and methods discovered.
Does Project Brownhouse have any ideas?
Project Brownhouse was created 7 months ago at the bequest of the YMJOC Board. It was recently announced in an attempt to "think tank." However, YMJOC holds an experimental technology in hand that it intends to pursue once a large oil shale deposit becomes available for testing.
What can *I* do to help Project Brownhouse?
Write your local government representative, whether congressman, mayor, grand moff, emperor, or other diplomatic entities! Ask them to contribute their oil shale land to YMJOC in an attempt at bettering your nation's economy--and the world economy!
YMJOC strives to be an eco-friendly conglomerate.
The Yukos/MOil Joint Oil Conglomerate has announced the formation of Project Brownhouse.
Project Brownhouse is an initiative by the great minds at YMJOC to develop a more convenient, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly process to mine and refine oil shale.
What IS Oil Shale?
Oil shale is considered to be formed by the deposition of organic matter in lakes, lagoons and restricted estuarine areas such as oxbow lakes and muskegs. Generally, oil shales are considered to be formed by accumulation of algal debris.
When plants die in these peat swamp environments, their biomass is deposited in anaerobic aquatic environments where low oxygen levels prevent their complete decay by bacteria and oxidation. For masses of undecayed organic matter to be preserved and to form oil shale the environment must remain steady for prolonged periods of time to build up sufficiently thick sequences of algal matter. Unlike coal, oil shale does not necessarily require low mineral and ash content, as it is not used for burning, and mineral waste in oil liquefaction plants is easier to deal with.
Eventually, and usually due to the initial onset of orogeny or other tectonic events, the algal swamp-forming environment is disrupted and oil shale accumulation ceases.
Burial by sedimentary loading on top of the algal swamp converts the organic matter to kerogen by the following processes;
-Compaction, due to loading of the sediments on the coal which flattens the organic matter
-Removal of the water held within the peat in between the plant fragments
-With ongoing compaction, removal of water from the inter-cellular structure of fossilized plants
-With heat and compaction, removal of molecular water
-Methanogenesis; similar to treating wood in a pressure cooker, methane is produced, which removes hydrogen and some carbon, and some further oxygen (as water)
-Dehydration, which removes hydroxyl groups from the cellulose and other plant molecules, resulting in the production of hydrogen-reduced coals
However the heat and pressure were not as great as in the similar process that forms petroleum. Oil shale is known as 'rock that burns'.
What will Project Brownhouse attempt to do?
Currently, oil share is not profitable to mine. Project Brownhouse seeks to discover, invent, or retool technology to allow the profitable mining of oil shale in this oil-consuming global market. Project Brownhouse seeks countries with large oil shale deposits to lease or sell their land to YMJOC. In exchange for the amount of contribution a nation or company extends YMJOC, they will be compensated with a percentage of the crude extracted from the shale or the rights to the technology and methods discovered.
Does Project Brownhouse have any ideas?
Project Brownhouse was created 7 months ago at the bequest of the YMJOC Board. It was recently announced in an attempt to "think tank." However, YMJOC holds an experimental technology in hand that it intends to pursue once a large oil shale deposit becomes available for testing.
What can *I* do to help Project Brownhouse?
Write your local government representative, whether congressman, mayor, grand moff, emperor, or other diplomatic entities! Ask them to contribute their oil shale land to YMJOC in an attempt at bettering your nation's economy--and the world economy!
YMJOC strives to be an eco-friendly conglomerate.