Oil shale

Sample type

Organic matter %

Component summary

Internal texture summary

Fisher assay

summary

Ash-Shoubak

Soft bituminous chalk marl

05.40

Significant amounts of organic matter; Calcite is the major mineral phase, minor quartz content, traces of fluorapatite and smectite

Very fine-grained matrix, strongly show flow structure and consists mainly of muddy material of cryptocrystalline micrite; Cretaceous forams are abundant. Brown organic matter fills pore spaces

Different oil yielding capacities; Highest for Lajjun and Sultani OS; Lowest for Ash-Shoubak and Jurf Ed-Darawish OS

Juf Ed-Darawish

Very soft bituminous marl

09.50

Sultani

Hard bituminous limestone

16.40

El-Lajjun

Very hard bituminous limestone

17.50