Economic evaluation, recovery techniques and environmental implications of the oil shale deposit in the Abakaliki Anticlinorium, southeastern Nigeria

Oil Shale

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-19

  Ehinola, O A ^a   Sonibare, O O ^a   Akanbi, O A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b The Polytechnic Ibadan   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HYDROCARBON RESERVES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; REFINERY FEEDSTOCK; SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA;

DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION; FERTILIZERS; LEAD; RECOVERY;

OIL SHALE;

EID: 33748077103     PISSN: 0208189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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