From: Platts
The government of Queensland has cleared the way for the development of a commercial oil shale industry in the eastern Australian state.
The government’s new oil shale policy sets rigorous environmental controls on the industry and will allow existing oil shale operator Queensland Energy Resources Limited to progress its trial plant at Gladstone to the commercial stage, Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps said in a statement Wednesday. QER’s pilot plant is designed to operate at around 2.5 mt/hour of oil shale feed, producing 37-40 b/d of shale oil.
