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Vol. 22, No. 23 Week of June 04, 2017
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Alaska coal as potential oil source

Tests on coal samples have demonstrated that the coal can produce oil as well as gas if heated to appropriate temperatures

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

People generally think of coal as a source of natural gas. But there are types of coal that produce oil as well as gas when heated to some appropriate temperature. Recent laboratory tests conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska’s Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys have confirm....

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