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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. In the US state of Utah, Eesti Energia purchased Oil Shale Exploration Company in 2011. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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