The U.S. is home to the largest deposits of oil shale in the world, most of which can be found between Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in what is known as the Green River Formation.

The vast majority of these deposits, and more than 70% of all oil shale resources within the entire Green River Formation, lie beneath public land controlled by federal agencies such as the Bureau of ...

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune In this 2013 photo, Enefit mining engineer Ben France gestures towards the darker, "mahogany zone" of the oil shale deposit revealed in a "box cut" on the ...

That belief lies partially in re-fracking - giving oil shale deposits a second blast of water, chemicals and sand - to get more oil out of depleted or under-performing wells.

The problem is that the main source of growth—oil squeezed from shale deposits through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—is the most vulnerable to short-term price swings and quickest to respond.

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