Oil Shales in Israel by the Geological survey of Israel 35 page presentation
The Shefela Oil shale occurance is 1000 square kilometers.
It is from 25 to 400 meters thick.
It could have over 250 billion barrels of oil reserves
It could be extracted with insitu methods.
EOM (easily oxidized material) is 15-16%
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