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How do you get oil shell out of the ground?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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12y ago

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That would be "Oil shale" - shale is a kind of rock. Anyway, the oil shale is dug up and then hot, hot steam or other substance is run through it to make the oil runny enough to flow down and out, where it is then collected.

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