: a crude dark oil obtained from oil shale by heating
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Executives on the frontline of the U.S. shale oil boom were scathing in their criticism of Trump’s policies in anonymous responses to that same survey.—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025 This toggling of production is possible because of how shale oil is extracted.—Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025 Now, the shift towards a more normalized rate environment has had a significant impact on shale oil producers, many of whom rely on debt to fund their capital-intensive operations.—Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025 This in turn shifted the Permian’s fossil fuel business into more and more of a trucking business, as shale oil and gas companies grew increasingly reliant on pumping in fracking fluid to force open underground cracks for oil and gas off of existing wells.—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shale oil
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