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The Timahdit oil shale deposit is an oil shale deposit located about southeast of Rabat near Timahdite, Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco. It is the second largest oil-shale deposit in Morocco.〔 〕〔 〕 Geologically, it comprises two basins: ''El koubbat'' and ''Angueur'' synclines.〔 〕 The oil shale formation is about long and wide. The volume of the ''El koubbat'' syncline formation is about ; the ''Angueur'' syncline area is about .〔〔 〕 The deposit is estimated to consist of 42 billion tons of oil shale, containing of shale oil.〔 The oil shale formation's thickness varies from .〔〔 Its moisture content is 6–11% and sulfur content is about 2%. On average it yields of shale oil per one ton of oil shale.〔 As the Timahdit deposit is located near Ifrane National Park and Haut-Atlas Oriental National Park, oil extraction is an environmentally sensitive issue.〔 〕 The Timahdit deposit was discovered during the 1960s.〔 〕 The deposit was researched and tested during the 1970s and 1980s.〔 The Moroccan Office of Hydrocarbons and Mining (ONHYM) developed and tested a shale oil extraction process called T3 which in 1984–1986 produced approximately 400 tons of shale oil at Timahdit.〔 〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timahdit oil shale deposit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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