Colorado Company Pursues Low-Cost, Low-Impact Technology to Develop Nation's Oil Shale Resources

This technology could make shale oil mining more feasible, but it would still require considerable power input for heating the rock. It would be interesting to see how much energy this will require -- Jeffrey
NETL: News Release - Colorado Company Pursues Low-Cost, Low-Impact Technology to Develop Nation's Oil Shale Resources:
News Release -- Jan. 10, 2007
"Composite Technology Development Inc. (CTD), Lafayette, Colo., is developing a technology that can heat the oil shale in situ, several thousand feet below the surface, separating the kerogen without mining the oil shale rock. If proven viable, the process could extract the petroleum-like liquid and render it mobile enough to be pumped to the surface."