CONTENTS PREFACE OVERVIEW 1. An Overview of Oil Shale Resources EMILY KNAUS, JAMES KILLEN, KHOSROW BIGLARBIGI, AND PETER CRAWFORD 2. New Challenges and Directions in Oil Shale Development Technologies PETER M. CRAWFORD AND JAMES C. KILLEN RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND GEOLOGY 3. Lake Level Controlled Sedimentological Heterogenity of Oil Shale, Upper Green River Formation, Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah WILLIAM GALLIN, M. ROYHAN GANI, MILIND DEO, NAHID DS GANI, AND MICHAEL D. VANDEN BERG CHEMISTRY AND PROCESS MODELING 4. Thermodynamics of Shale Oil Production James W. Bunger and Christopher P. Russell 5. Molecular Composition of Shale Oil JAMES W. BUNGER, CHRISTOPHER P. RUSSELL, AND DONALD E. COGSWELL 6. Chemistry and Kinetics of Oil Shale Retorting ALAN K. BURNHAM 7. Modeling of the In-Situ Production of Oil from Oil Shale JACOB H. BAUMAN, CHUNG KAN HUANG, M. ROYHAN GANI, AND MILIND D. DEO INDUSTRIAL OIL SHALE PROCESSES 8. AMSO's Novel Approach to In-Situ Oil Shale Recovery ALAN K. BURNHAM, ROGER L. DAY, MICHAEL P. HARDY, AND P. HENRIK WALLMAN 9. Shell's In Situ Conversion Process?From Laboratory to Field Pilots ROBERT C. RYAN, THOMAS D. FOWLER, GARY L. BEER, AND VIJAY NAIR 10. ExxonMobil's ElectrofracM Process for In Situ Oil Shale Conversion W. A. SYMINGTON, R. D. KAMINSKY, W. P. MEURER, G. A. OTTEN, M. M. THOMAS, AND J. D. YEAKEL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 11. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Oil Shale Derived Liquid Fuels ADAM R. BRANDT, JEREMY BOAK, AND ALAN K. BURNHAM 12. A Review of Activities To Address the Environmental Impacts of Oil Shale Development DAVID K. OLSEN, ARTHUR HARTSTEIN, AND DAVID R. ALLEMAN ECONOMICS, LEGAL, POLICY AND SOCIAL ISSUES 13. Economics of Oil Shale Development KHOSROW BIGLARBIGI, JAMES KILLEN, HITESH MOHAN, MARSHALL CAROLUS, AND JEFFREY STONE 14. Resource Management Challenges in the Context of Potential Oil Shale Development KIRSTEN UCHITEL, JOHN RUPLE, AND ROBERT KEITER INDEXES AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX