Shale oil reserves in us
For much of the 20th century, the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves served as a contingency source of fuel for the Nation's military. All that changed in 1998 when Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, known as Elk Hills, was privatized, the first of a series of major organizational changes that leave only one of the original six Federal properties in the program. U.S. HAS MASSIVE OIL RESERVES. SHALE REMAINS UNTAPPED AFTER DECADES OF FAILURE . By Christopher J. Petherick. There is an estimated 2 trillion barrels of oil buried beneath parts of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.