Translation for 'oil shale' from English to Norwegian

oil shale

oljeskifer {m}geol.

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to oil

å olje

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oil

olje {m/f}

oil war

oljekrig {m}

oil spill

oljesøl {n}miljø

fuel oil

fyrings­olje {m/f}

oil rig

leterigg {m}gruve

oil depot

unverified oljeterminal {m}

oljedepot {n}ind.

oil installation

unverified oljeterminal {m}

oil terminal

oljeterminal {m}ind.

vegetable oil

vegetabilsk olje {m/f}gastr.

oil well

oljebrønn {m}

rapeseed oil

rapsolje {m/f}

oil painting

oljemaleri {n}kunst

oil drum

oljefat {n}

sunflower oil

solsikkeolje {m/f}gastr.

engine oil

motorolje {m/f}

olive oil

olivenolje {m/f}gastr.

oil filter

oljefilter {n}tek.

crude oil

råolje {m/f}

• In the 1960s, a proposal was suggested for a modified "in situ" shale oil extraction process which involved creation of a rubble chimney (a zone in the oil shale formation created by breaking the rock into fragments) using a nuclear explosive.
• Paraná is the largest producer of oil shale in Brazil.
• To fuel locomotives operating on the railway during World War I, the German Army produced shale oil from the Yarmouk oil shale deposit.
• Most famous in the district is the Messel Pit, where many fossils in the oil shale of a Tertiary lake were found.
• This is from oil shale within the bedrock of the Marcellus Formation.

• Demand is rising due to the use of guar gum in hydraulic fracturing (oil shale gas)..
• VKG has opened an oil shale themed exposition at Gate 4 on 9 January 2013, showing the history and development of Estonian oil shale industry.
• Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between 20 and 40 carbon atoms.
• Recent developments in technologies have also led to the exploitation of other unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale.
• During the first decade of the 21st century, the population increased in large part because of jobs in the oil industry related to development of unconventional tight oil (shale oil) fields.

• Broxburn remained an agricultural community until the development of the oil shale industry in the area during the second half of the nineteenth century.
• Since 1964, the Colorado School of Mines has hosted the annual oil shale symposium, one of the most important international oil shale conferences.
• The investigation focused on a 2006 decision by Norton's agency to grant oil shale leases to Royal Dutch Shell.
• A 2016 estimate set the total world resources of oil shale equivalent to yield of [...] of shale oil, with the largest resource deposits in the United States accounting more than 80% of the world total resource.
• Environment – current issues: air polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast; however, the amounts of pollutants emitted to the air have fallen dramatically and the pollution load of wastewater at purification plants has decreased substantially due to improved technology and environmental monitoring; Estonia has more than 1,400 natural and manmade lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas need to be monitored; coastal seawater is polluted in certain locations.