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This is a list of shale oil operations in Australia. Operations include mining of oil shale , extraction of crude shale oil, and refining of oil products. As there are no shale oil operations currently, this list of historical interest only. The list is grouped first by state and then by location, in alphabetical order. If there was more than one operation at a location, the operations there are listed in approximate chronological order.

New South Wales

Oil shale outcrops at places over a wide area of New South Wales, to the east of the watershed of the Great Dividing Range.[1]

Shale oil operations in New South Wales can be divided into these periods:

  • 1865 to 1872 - commencement of a local industry supplying kerosene, candles, and lubricants, for the local market, or oil shale (or oil) for use in town gas enrichment, locally and for export.
  • 1873 to 1906 - the industry was dominated by two companies, Australian Kerosene Oil & Mineral and N.S.W. Shale & Oil, both amalgamations of smaller ones; some smaller ventures continued operating.
  • 1906 to 1922 - large greenfield developments using English capital, at Newnes and Murrurundi, ending in failure, due largely to cheaper imported 'conventional' crude oil and petroleum products.
  • 1922 to 1938 - various attempts to re-establish the industry, culminating in the plans, in 1937, for a modern plant at Glen Davis; some small ventures operated sporadically during this period.
  • 1939 to 1945 - a number of small operations started production, mainly to overcome wartime fuel shortages, and the commencement of production at the large plant at Glen Davis.
  • 1945 to 1952 - the final years of the industry, which saw the closure of Glen Davis and the abandonment of plans for a large operation at Baerami Creek.

The list below shows shale oil operations that have been recorded in New South Wales; it may not be a complete list.

Location Company

/ Owner

Operations Period of

operation

Fate
Airly (See also Torbane) Genowlan Shale Company Mined 'export quality' oil shale from Genowlan Mine, which was shipped to Germany for enriching town gas.[2] 1883
Australian Kerosene Oil & Mineral Company / Australian Shale Syndicate Leases taken over by Australian Oil Syndicate. Genowlan Mine operated by Australian Kerosene Oil & Mineral Company for payment of a royalty.[3][4] c.1895-1904
Australian Shale Syndicate Genowlan Mine supplied shale to the Commonwealth Oil Corporation retorts at Torbane.[5] 1906-1910 Australian Shale Syndicate assets acquired by British Australian Oil Company in 1910.[6]
British Australian Oil Company Genowlan Mine supplied shale to the Commonwealth Oil Corporation retorts at Torbane, until 1913.[5] 1910-1915 Mining ceased when retorts at Torbane shutdown in 1913, but there may have been some activity up to February 1915.[7]
'Bathgate' / Marangaroo (see also Marangaroo) Mackenzie Brothers Oil shale mine,

('Bathgate' lay on Dr Mackenzie's property, about a mile from the Main Western railway line at the point where it passed through the original Marangaroo tunnel.)[8][9][10][11]

1870s
Baerami Creek / 'Baerami' Various Small scale mining.[12] During period 1915-1925
Muswellbrook-Baerami Shale Syndicate / Jaeger A retort was set up by Mr. Jaeger and the first oil was made from Baerami Creek oil shale.[13][14] 1925-c.1927
Shale Oil Development Committee Mining work to drive tunnels and determine the tonnage of shale available for mining.[15] 1931
Baerami Oil Development Limited / Hosier and White Company took over leases of Bearami South Shale and Oil Co. (in liquidation) the retort technology of Australian Imperial Shale Oil Company (refer Wollar and Barigan).[16] 1936
Colonial Petroleum Oil Limited Miller retort was erected and operated at Baerami Creek.[17][18] 1940-c.1942
Standard Oil of Australia From 1937 to 1952, the company attempted to implement its plans for a large shale oil industry based on the Baerami Creek deposit. They used a Renco / NTU retort at Hamilton to successfully carry out trial retorting over three months in 1939. The government moved the retort to Glen Davis where it sat unused.[19][20][21][22] (The same type of retort was used successfully at Marrangaroo.) Operation 1939

Period of involvement 1937-1952

Plan for further development of an oil industry at Baerami rejected by government in 1945.[23][24](Despite its similar name, Standard Oil of Australia is unrelated to Standard Oil.)
Shale Oil Products Co-Op Limited Mining and moving the shale by road to its retorts at nearby Sandy Hollow. This operation only used the richest of the oil shale from the Baerami seams, discarding the rest.[25][26] (see also Sandy Hollow below) 1943-1945 The company was in liquidation by June 1945, when its equipment was put up for sale.[27] Production ceased in August 1945.[28] Only viable under wartime conditions.
Balls Head Bay / Kerosene Bay Australian Mineral Oil Co. Shale retorts and refinery. The shale came from Stony Creek near 'West Maitland',[29] (probably near modern-day Farley). Later shale seems to have come from Hartley Vale.[30] c.1865—c.1868 Buildings taken over by an explosive works.

It was this industry that gave the waterway its earlier name 'Kerosene Bay'.

Barigan

(14 miles from

Wollar, near Lue)

Barigan Shale Syndicate / Barigan Shale Company Limited

/ Molesworth

Leases taken up and plans to erect retorts and pipeline to Lue railway station.[31][32][33] 1921 Company deregistered in 1939.[34] (A different entity was later using the same name, 'Barigan Shale Company,' see below.)
Australian Imperial Shale Oil Co Plans to exploit deposit using the 'Schultz' process.[35] 1930
Barigan Shale Company Mining commenced in 1942 to feed retorts planned to be at Mudgee.[36] The mine was supplying shale to retorts operated by Viggers at Hamilton.[37][38][39][40] 1942-1944
Berrima Coal and Oil By-products Shale treatment works, processing shale from a company mine at Joadja.[41][42] (Also Airly and Burragorang) 1941-1942
Burragorang Valley Various There was some mining of oil shale in this area.[42][43][44] 1930-1931

1941-1942

Camelia (previously known as Sandown) Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company Works making soap and candles. The materials used were made at Joadja and came from there by rail, via Mittagong. The works lay on riverfront land between the river and the tram line to the Redbank Wharf.[45][46][47][48][49] The works had already closed and were for sale in February 1902.[50] 1887-c.1901 Land sold off in 1908.[51]
Capertee Crown Ridge Mine Shale mine west of the Mudgee road, near Blackman's Crown, which exploited a seam of oil shale that was separate from the seam mined at nearby Torbane and Airly. First mined c.1891.[52][53][54] 1891-1909 Lease acquired by Australian Shale Syndicate in 1909.
Australian Shale Syndicate (Crown Ridge Mine) Shale mine, as above, under different owner. 1909-1910 Assets of Australian Shale Syndicate acquired by British Australian Oil Company.
British Australian Oil Company (Crown Ridge Mine) Shale mine, as above, under different owner.[55] Its operation was not continuous. 1910-1915 Mining ceased in February 1915.[56]
John Fell and Company (Crown Ridge Mine) 1000 tons of 'bottoms' shale that had been stockpiled at Crown Ridge Mine was shipped by rail to Newnes and processed. It had become more valuable,[57][58] probably due to wartime conditions. 1918-1919
Viddler & Stocks

(Crown Ridge Mine)

Development work and trial oil production from a retort erected at the mine in 1922, sporadic production of shale after that until some time in 1925.[59][60][61] 1922-1925
Coal and Oil By-products (Crown Ridge Mine) This company took an option over the mine and small quantities of shale were shipped for treatment at Berrima.[41][62][63][64] 1941-1945
Clandulla

(then called

'Mornington')

Mornington Proprietary Oil Company Carbonaceous shale mine and lead-bath retorts. 1901-1902 The quality of the carbonaceous shale was too poor to extract its oil content economically, by any available method. The site was abandoned, and the company was in liquidation by mid 1902.[65][66][67][68][69]
Darling Harbour Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company A depot in Hay Street.[49] Its operations were moved to Camellia around 1887.[47] ?-1887
Farley / 'West Maitland' Russell's Cannel Coal Mines Shale mine at Stony Creek near 'West Maitland',[29] (probably near modern-day Farley). The shale was processed by Australian Mineral Oil Co. at Balls Head Bay on Sydney Harbour. c.1865-c.1868
Glen Alice / 'The Nile' Glen Alice Coal and Shale Mining Company Shale mine at the foot of Mount Innes, on the northern side of the Capertee Valley.[70][71][72] The company was seeking to sell its shale property in February 1898,[73] although it may have still been operating, perhaps as late as 1902.[74] c.1894-c.1902
Glen Alice Shale Company (Ltd) Company launched in late 1905 to acquire shale leases in the area. Uncertain whether mining operations commenced. The company voted to wind up its operations in December 1906.[75] but was not deregistered until 1938.[76] 1905-1906
Glen Davis (previously known as North Newnes) National Oil Proprietary Limited Shale oil mine, retorts and oil refinery. (Coal was sourced from a nearby mine owned by others.) A new town was built to house its workers, named Glen Davis, after George Francis Davis. Site of last oil shale production in New South Wales in 1952. Construction from 1938

Operation 1940-1952

Government support discontinued and operations were shut down
Greenwich

/ Gore Bay

John Fell & Company Lubricating oil refinery and blending plant, that processed crude oil, mainly from Newnes, until 1922, after when it processed imported crude oil.[77][78][79] 1911-1927 Sold to Shell in 1927, and continued as a refinery until at least 1937.
Hamilton British Australian Oil Company Oil refinery, processing crude oil made at Murrurundi.[80] Construction from 1910

Operation 1911-1915

Closed down. Refining assets cold to Commonwealth Oil Refineries and equipment removed and reused at refinery at Laverton, Victoria.[81][82]
Viggers Refining crude from Barigan.[83][84][85] 1940-1944 Closed down. Site used as oil depot by Shell until 2014.
Hartley Vale / 'Petrolea Vale' Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company

/ 'Petrolea Vale Company'

Shale mine with adjacent 'Petrolea Vale' retorts.[86] 1865-1870 'Petrolea Vale' retorts closed in 1870. In 1871, its assets were bought by T.S. Mort,[87] a director of Western Kerosene Oil Company, and were merged with those of Western Kerosene Oil Co. (see below) in 1872 to form N.S.W Shale & Oil Company.
Western Kerosene Oil Company Shale mine with shale shipped to Waterloo for retorting. Company incorporated in 1867.[88] 1867-1872 Company merged with Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Co. (see above) in 1872 to form N.S.W Shale & Oil Company, which took over operations.
N.S.W. Shale & Oil The new company took over all existing operations at Hartley Vale.[89] Had 10 retorts in operation there, by June 1880,[90] and by May 1883 there were 69 with more being built.[91] The retorts were operated by A. M. Fell & Sons, from December 1886, with N.S.W. Shale & Oil contracted to supply the mined shale.[92] 1872-1906 N.S.W. Shale & Oil was sold to Commonwealth Oil Corporation in 1906 (see below).
Commonwealth Oil Corporation Oil shale mine and retorts. 1906-1910 The retorts were closed in 1910, when the shale mines were exhausted and retort operation was about to commence at Newnes.
Oil refinery, expanded in 1910.[93] It closed initially in 1913,[94] but seems to have lingered on until a final closure in 1914.[95] 1906-1914 Closed after Commonwealth Oil Corporation entered receivership. Some equipment relocated to Newnes and Greenwich / Gore Bay refineries by John Fell.[96][97]
Jamison Valley / Ruined Castle

(near Katoomba)

Ruined Castle Oil Shale Mines / John Britty North Oil shale mines with tramway to the incline railway, at Katoomba. Short-lived Bleichert ropeway across Jamison Valley.[98] 1880s – 1890s
Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company (as lessee) Mines reopened and operated briefly.[99][100][101] (See also this company's concurrent operation at Glen Shale Mine in Megalong Valley.) 1903-1904
Joadja Various owners:

Edward Carter / George Larkin / Parbury, Lamb & Co

Shale mines. Originally the shale was sent elsewhere for processing by road. Parbury, Lamb & Co, built the inclined railway that took shale out of the valley.[102] 1873-1878 Australian Kerosene Oil & Mineral Company was set up and acquired the mining leases in the valley from their earlier owners.
Australian Kerosene Oil & Mineral Company Retorts and extensive refinery, in addition to mines, all located in the valley of Joadja Creek. Site produced kerosene and candles.[102][49]

In 1880, a 14km long narrow-gauge railway was opened to connect the incline with the Main South railway at Mittagong.[103][104]

1878-1896[102]

1901-1902[105]

After works closed, the valley continued to produce fruit from orchards planted by the company, In 1906, shareholders voted to wind up the company.[106] The company was still in liquidation, when the Joadja Creek property was sold in 1911.[107]
Shale Petrol Oil Company Mining recommenced. The company erected a 'Leahy-Wilson' vertical retort, which was operational for a short time, before it blew up also bringing mining operations to an end.[108][109][110][111] Some oil products were shipped to customers. The company had plans for capital raising and expansion,[112][113] but these plans did not eventuate.[114][115] 1920-1922 By January 1923, the directors had received the approval of shareholders to sell the company's property at Joadja.[116] and in 1925 the mining leases were cancelled.[117]
Peters American Delicacy Pty. Ltd. / McDonald & Gotting /

Mittagong Shale Products

Small scale mining to supply a plant at Mittagong, providing fuel for delivery vehicles, under wartime conditions.[118] 1941-1944 Mining probably ceased after the Mittagong plant was severely damaged in a fire in December 1944.[119] Last mining at Joadja.
Kerosene Vale Kerosene Vale Oil Works

/ Mackenzie Brothers

Oil shale mine, retorts and refinery.[120][121] 1867 -

early

1870s

Abandoned after thicker seam of oil shale was discovered at a neaby location ‘Bathgate’ (about a mile from the Main Western railway line at the point where it passed through the original Marangaroo tunnel.)
Marangaroo Lithgow Oil Proprietary Limited Oil shale mine and NTU retorts producing crude oil. Two million gallons of crude oil made at Marangaroo was refined, at Glen Davis by National Oil Proprietary Ltd. [122][123] The oil shale deposit was small but exceptionally rich, assaying 237 gallons per long ton.[122] 1943-1945 Closed in November 1945, as a result of the end of the Second World War.[123]
Megalong Valley

/ Nellies Glen / Narrow Neck

Glen Oil Shale Mines

/ T.S Mort

Oil shale mine and tramway, which passed through Mt Rennie Tunnel under Narrow Neck, linking with another tramway to the inclined railway to Katoomba.[124] 1886-1896 Mined out, closed down, and tramway tracks lifted.
John Britty North North purchased the mines in 1900. He reconstructed the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company.[98] 1900-1903
Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company In 1903, tramway was relaid and second-class shale was removed from existing stockpiles near the mine, for use by Australian Gas Light Company.[124] 1903-1904
(Unknown) The Glen Shale Mine was reopened and worked briefly.[124] 1921-?
Mittagong Herbert Gotting & J.M.Browne / H,E. Gotting and Son A combined retort and distillation system was patented c.1933 and demonstrated in 1935, using oil shale from Joadja and Newnes.[125][126][127][128][129] 1930-1935
Herbert & Leonard Gotting Small scale retort and refinery producing petrol and other liquid fuels and gas for the Gotting family's own consumption, using oil shale from Joadja.[130] 1940-1944 Peters took an interest in Mittagong Shale Products, which set up a production facility using Herbert Gotting's retort design.[131]
Peters American Delicacy Pty. Ltd. / Ampol Petroleum / Mittagong Shale Products A plant at Mittagong, providing fuel for delivery vehicles, under wartime conditions, processing shale from Joadja and Reedy Creek (also in local area).[118][132][110] The plant used six retorts of Herbert Gotting's design.[133] It was severely damaged by fire in December 1944.[119] (Peters was also a shareholder in Shale Oil Products Co-Op Limited which operated at Sandy Hollow from 1943 to 1945.) 1941-1944 Not restarted after fire, and the war ended.
Mount Kembla /

American Creek

Pioneer Kerosene Works / John Graham Shale mine, retorts and refinery near American Creek. Commenced operation in June 1865, and was the first commercial shale oil operation in Australia.[134][135][136] 1865- 1874 Change of ownership and management in 1874.[137]
American Creek Oil Company / Ebenezer Vickery Shale mining and retort operation continued and was reorganised by its manager, Alexander Morrison Fell.[136][138] [139] 1875-1878 Production ceased in 1878, when the shale was mined out.[138] Mount Kembla Coal & Oil Company was founded in 1879, and focus shifted to exploiting coal seams outcropping on the same land at Mount Kembla.[140][141]
Murrurundi / Mount Temi Australian Shale Syndicate Lease at Mt Temi was acquired in 1905. Around 1906 it was verifying and planning to exploit the resource,[142] and by September 1908 had extended a main haulage tunnel 400m into the seam.[143] 1905-1910 Assets sold to British Australian Oil Company (see below) in 1910.
British Australian Oil Company Shale mine at Mt Temi and aerial ropeway from the mine to a retort site at Murrurundi. Rail branch from Temple Court north of Murrurundi used to send oil to the refinery at Hamilton.[144][145][146] Construction from 1910

Operation 1911-1915

Abandoned in 1915. Partially demolished in 1923,[147] with remainder demolished in 1929.[148] Branch railway was lifted in 1931.[149]
Australian Shale Oil Pty Ltd

later Australian Shale Oil Corporation Ltd.

Took up the Mount Temi shale leases, with the intention of exploiting the resource. There was some trial retorting of shale, using the American-invented Bronder retorting process. However, before significant work was done at Murrurundi, Australian Shale Oil Corporation was approached by the Tasmanian Government seeking to interest the company in exploiting shale oil deposits in Tasmania.[150] 1923-1924 The company subsequently set up its mining and shale oil extraction operations, near Latrobe in the Mersey Valley area of Tasmania,[150] and there was no revival of the oil shale industry at Murrurundi.
Newnes Commonwealth Oil Corporation Shale oil mines, coal mines, retorts, coke ovens and oil refinery.[151] (Before commencing oil production the company sold coke to William Sandford Limited and later G & C Hoskins to feed their blast furnace at Lithgow.[152][153]) A new town was built there, named Newnes, after George Newnes. Construction from 1907

Operation 1911-1913

Commonwealth Oil Corporation entered receivership in 1912.[154]
Commonwealth Oil Corporation

(managed by

John Fell)

Shale oil mines, coal mines, retorts, and oil refinery. Shale mining and retort operations ceased in 1922, and the oil refinery closed in 1923.[151] 1914-1923 Reasons given for ending operation were the high cost of mining and competition from imported ('conventional') crude oil.
Shale Oil Development Committee Mining and 200,000 gallons of oil produced using abandoned COC equipment.[155][156][157] 1931-early 1932 Site abandoned.
North Newnes

(previously called 'The Gullies', later called Glen Davis, on the southern side of the Capertee Valley, south-east of Glen Alice)

Various Oil shale was identified in the area in 1865. From 1881, there were mines in the area, including an adit known as 'MP1'.[158][159][160] 1881-1906 MP1 adit later became the shale mine for Glen Davis.[158]
Commonwealth Oil Corporation An existing tunnel into the shale deposit on the North Newnes (Capertee Valley) side ('Lang's Tunnel') was extended, with the intention of meeting another tunnel being dug from the Newnes (Wolgan Valley) side. Excavated shale was stockpiled at the North Newnes end, ready to be conveyed through the tunnel, but the two tunnels never met.[161][162] [163] 1906-1908 Work was abandoned at a tunnel length of 4,300 ft (1,300 m)[164] in September 1906.[165] The miners vacated the site by November 1908.[166]
Reedy Creek (Southern Highlands) Shale Petrol Oil Company Exploratory borehole to delineate resources. 1920-1922
Reedy Creek Oil and Shale Syndicate / 'A Melbourne syndicate' Exploratory tunnel and trial retorting of oil shale. The site was "16 or 17 miles from Mittagong"[167][168][169] 1926-1928
Shale Oil Products Co-Op Limited Shale mining to supply a plant at Mittagong.[118] 1941
Sandy Hollow Shale Oil Products Co-Op Limited This organisation—backed by a number of companies with vehicle fleets—was exploiting the shale deposit at Baerami Creek and producing crude oil and 2,000 imperial gallons of petrol per week, moving the shale by road to its retorts at Sandy Hollow. The fuel produced was used by the backers, to overcome a wartime shortage of motor fuel, for their own road vehicles.[170][171] 1943-1945 The company was in liquidation by June 1945, when its equipment was put up for sale.[27] Production ceased in August 1945.[28] Only viable under wartime conditions.
Torbane

(See also Airly)

'King's Mine' Shale mine. From uncertain date to 1896 Lease taken up by N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company.[172]
N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company 'King's Mine' shale mine (renamed 'New Hartley mine'), retorts and private branch railway. 1896-1906 N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company was sold to Commonwealth Oil Corporation (see below).[173]
Commonwealth Oil Corporation Shale mine and retorts. New Pumpherson retorts commenced operation in 1908.[174][175] 1906-1913 Operations ceased in 1913.[176]
Commonwealth Oil Corporation

(managed by John Fell)

The retorts were reopened and production of crude oil resumed.[177] 1916-1918 Production ceased in 1918.[177] Bricks were removed for use at Clyde refinery in 1925.[178]
Torquay and Anglesea Oil Company Erected retorts and other structures there in [179][180] but uncertain it started production. 1925-1926 Last attempt to exploit Torbane area shale.
Ultimo N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company Premises adjacent to the Darling Harbour railway line at Ultimo, where they manufactured grease and lubricating oil.[181] (Probably relocated there after the final closure of the larger refinery at Waterloo / Alexandria). c1885-?
Waterloo / Alexandria

(Botany Rd)

Western Kerosene Oil Company Shale retorts and oil refinery, processing oil shale shipped from Hartley Vale. The works was located on 10 acres of land on the western side of Botany Road, "Some three or four hundred yards beyond the Waterloo Tollbar"[182] (The tollbar in 1863, was on Botany Road, near Boundary St.) Being on the western side of the road, its true address was Alexandria, although it was usually stated to be in Waterloo. c.1868-1872 Company merged with Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Co. to form N.S.W Shale & Oil Company, which took over operations.
N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company Shale retorts and oil refinery, processing oil shale shipped from Hartley Vale. 1872-c.1886 Closed after sufficient retorts and oil refinery were set up at Hartley Vale.
A.M. Fell and Sons The refinery continued in operation for some time under a contract with A. M. Fell & Sons (Alexander Morrison Fell). It remained owned by N.S.W. Shale & Oil Company. c.1886-? All operations eventually relocated.
Wollar Australian Imperial Shale Oil Company Shale mine (intermittent mining) and processing plant using Schultz process, developed by Ernest Schultz of Melbourne (retorts and condensers).[183][184][185][186] 1930-1935 May not have proceeded beyond the demonstration of small commercial-scale plant, on at least two occasions, in 1931 and 1935.[187][188][186] The company seems to have been defunct by 1936.[16]

Queensland

Queensland has the largest deposits of oil shale in Australia.[189][190] Aside from limited activities around the time of the Second World War, there was little done to exploit those resources, until after the 1973 oil crisis. Activity decreased after the fall in oil prices, around 1986. After that time, the adverse environmental consequences of mining and processing the shale became increasingly significant to public acceptance and government approval.

The list below shows shale oil operations that have been recorded in Queensland; it may not be a complete list.

Location Company

/ Owner

Operations Period of

operation

Fate
Alpha National Liquid Fuel Society Limited A society / company was set up and attempts made to raise funds from the public. It held leases for oil shale at Alpha. It carried out development work at Alpha and took ten tons of shale for testing in an experimental retort in Brisbane. The shale was assayed at 150 gallons of oil per ton.[191][192][193][194][195] 1941-1944 It never entered commercial production, and interest in it appears to have waned with the end of the Second World War.[196]
Gladstone Region

/ 'Rundle Deposit'

Southern Pacific Petroleum and Central Pacific Minerals,

with Esso Australia

Rundle Oil Shale Project c.1973-c.1987 Esso deferred the project. SPP sold its stake in the venture to Australian Oil-Shale Holdings in 2007.
Gladstone Region

/ 'Stuart Deposit'

Southern Pacific Petroleum and Central Pacific Minerals,

from 1997 with Suncor Energy

Stuart Oil Shale Project, with a pilot plant using the Alberta Taciuk process. Development

1997-2001 Pilot plant production from 1999

Suncor withdrew in 2001.
Southern Pacific Petroleum Southern Pacific Petroleum and Central Pacific Minerals, merged as Southern Pacific Petroleum. 2003 Company encountered financial difficulties and sold Stuart oil shale assets to Queensland Energy Resources in 2003.
Queensland Energy Resources In 2004, the pilot plant, which had produced 500,000 barrels of oil since opening in 1999, was closed. A new pilot plant based on Paraho II technology was commissioned in 2011. Production

2004 and 2011

Julia Creek Xtract Oil (a subsidiary of Global Oil Shale Group) Julia Creek project , with proposed use of the Galoter process. 2012
Rolleston Vincent

Hiske / Carnarvon

Ranges Expedition

Experimental retorting of oil shale near the Early Storms Station homestead.[197] 1940
Whitsunday Region/ Gunyarra

(near Proserpine) /'McFarlane Deposit'

Queensland Energy Resources The area of the Whitsunday Coast Airport and land to its south-east reportedly contains the largest oil shale deposit in Queensland. The company has carried out test drilling in the area.[198][199] 2008 Later in 2008, the Queensland government imposed a 20-year moratorium on the mining of oil shale in the Whitsunday region.[190]
Yeerongpilly Transport Fuel and By-Products Syndicate Erected an 'Anderson process' demonstration plant that produced samples of oil, from oil shale obtained from New South Wales. Deposits at Strathpine and Alpha were considered as possible sources of oil shale. [200] 1946

Tasmania

Deposits of Tasmanite oil shale were identified in the valley of the Mersey River, in Northern Tasmania, in the 1860s. Oil shale operations took place in this area, between around 1910 and 1935, producing a total of only 85,000 barrels (13,500 m3).[201][202][203] Despite much effort and time, and experiments with different retorting processes, the industry in Tasmania proved not to be economically-viable, under the prevailing circumstances and without the government support that did not eventuate.[204]

The list below shows shale oil operations that have been recorded in Tasmania; it may not be a complete list.

Location Company

/ Owner

Operations Period of

operation

Fate
Latrobe / Right Bank of Mersey River Tasmanian Shale Company Mine and retorts opened in May 1911.[205] Construction

1910

Operation

1911-1912

Assets and leases sold to Railton-Latrobe Oil Shale Company in 1912, with the company in liquidation.[206][207]
Railton-Latrobe Oil Shale Company Mine and retorts.[208][207] The company added new retorts in 1914, which were later claimed to be faulty and were the subject of litigation in 1916.[209][210] It was still producing oil in 1916, but attempts were made to have the Tasmanian Government purchase the business. The company's crude oil was being used as 'road dressing' in Tasmania and the first shipment to mainland Australia only happened in 1916.[211][212] The mine provided shale for use in production of town gas at least as late as 1919.[213] 1912-1916

Shale mining in 1919

In 1917, the Legislative Council of Tasmania rejected purchasing the company's assets,[214] and subsequent attempts to obtain government aid seem to have failed.

(A later (1931) company by the name of Railton Latrobe Shale Oil Company, N.L. is unrelated.)

Southern Cross Motor Fuels Company This company took over the leases of Railton-Latrobe Oil Shale Company and erected retorts.[215][216][217][218][219] It also built a refinery at Yarraville, Victoria, which started producing in 1922.[220][221] In June 1924, the workforce was laid off, pending arrival of equipment to a new design.[222] In March 1925, equipment from the dismantled Yarraville refinery arrived for use at Latrobe.[223] 1921-1925 In June 1925, shareholders voted to reconstruct the capital of the company by winding it up and creating a new entity, New Southern Cross Motor Fuels, with increased capital to be raised from existing shareholders.[224]
New Southern Cross Motor Fuels Company Carried on businesses of former Southern Cross Motor Fuels Company.[224] Reported successful results, in December 1925, of new 'McPherson' retort.[225] Workforce laid off in May 1926, pending a decision on future operations.[226] 1925-1926 The company became interested in the 'Long' process in 1927, and its shareholders became involved in the flotation of the Tasmanite Shale Company (see below).
Tasmanian Cement Company The company erected mining plant on its lease,[227] to mine oil shale to process, including extracting oil, at its cement works at Railton (refer to Railton, below). Construction from 1923

Mining

1924-1928

Dorman Long took management control in 1928, and set up a new company (see below).[228]
Goliath Portland Cement Co. New company to continue the shale mining operations of Tasmanian Cement Company, after Dorman Long took control of that company. Mining

1928-1931

Oil shale interests merged into reconstructed Tasmanite Oil Company in 1931 (see below).[229]
Tasmanite Shale Company Acquired the leases of (New) Southern Cross Motor Fuels Company.[230] Operated 'Long' retorts at a site on the opposite side of the river to L & N, around mid-1929.[231][232] In 1930, its storage was full of crude oil, and it had to shutdown. 1929-1930 Company reconstructed in 1931 (see below).[229]
Tasmanite Shale Company

(new entity of same name)

So as to coordinate the shale oil related efforts of various parties, this company was reconstructed, by shareholding, to also take over the shale operations of Goliath Portland Cement Co. (holding an adjacent lease), Mineral Oils Extraction Limited, and Railton Latrobe Shale Oil Company, N.L., in 1931.[229] The new combined approach focused on the 'Crozier' retort that had been introduced to Tasmania by Mineral Oils Extraction. 1931-1935 The 'Crozier' process was not demonstrated at full commercial scale, and a report (L.G. Rogers, ‘Report on the Tasmanian Shale Industry’, September 1932) pointed out this deficiency. Nonetheless, the Commonwealth Government's policy favoured that process for another two years.[204] The last production of shale oil in Tasmania was in 1935.
Latrobe / Left Bank of Mersey River Australian Shale Oil Corporation

/ later owned by

The company mined shale and operated an American-invented Bronder retort from 1924.[204][233] Sold leases and assets to L & N (Tasmania), a subsidiary of L & N Brown Coal Company of England in 1928.[234] 1924-1928 Sold leases and assets to L & N (Tasmania), in 1928.[234] Liquidated in 1931.[235]
L & N (Tasmania) Ltd A German-manufactured 'L & N patent' retort was delivered from England to the Latrobe site, around April 1929, but not installed due to a lack of funds.[231][235][232][236]

L & N (Tasmania), was a subsidiary of L & N Brown Coal Company of England in 1928.[234] L & N was also planning to exploit brown coal resources at Lal Lal and Morwell in Victoria.[237]

1928-1931 The English parent company was unable to raise funds for further work in Australia.[238] (See also Shale Oil (Demonstrating) Company below).
Shale Oil (Demonstrating) Company Company floated by local businessmen to carry on progressing developments begun by Australian Shale Oil Corporation and later L & N. Installed a single full-size Pumpherson retort for a trial, which ran from 29 May to 19 July 1932, processing five tons of shale per day.[239] For commercial production, multiple full-scale retorts would have been necessary. 1931-1932 Shutdown after trial. Commonwealth Government support was critical and the efforts of the Shale Oil (Demonstrating) Company did not receive it. Instead, for the two years to 1935, government policy supported the efforts of Tasmanite Shale Company using the 'Crozier' process.[204]
Railton Tasmanian Cement Company Cement works using oil shale from the company's mine at Latrobe, their objective being to provide oil as fuel for the cement works, use the spent shale as an ingredient of the product, and apply the waste heat of the cement kiln to retorting the oil shale (at Railton). The large British company Dorman Long & Co. took an interest in the company in 1924. This involvement was related to Dorman Long's sourcing of cement for construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.[240][241][242] 1924-1928 Dorman Long took management control in 1928, and set up a new company (see below).[228]
Goliath Portland Cement Co. Continuation of the operation of the cement works, using shale from Latrobe to make cement after extracting the oil. The shale oil operations were to become a joint venture with an English company,[228][243] which was Mineral Oils Extraction Company (see below).[244] 1928-1931 Oil shale interests merged into reconstructed Tasmanite Oil Company in 1931.[229]
Mineral Oils Extraction Company Joint venture partner for shale oil operations with Goliath Portland Cement Co.. Introduced the 'Crozier' process to Tasmania. The company had a presence in Australia promoting the 'Crozier' retort from c.1925.[244][245][246] Presence in Australia from

c. 1925

At Railton 1928-1931

Oil shale interests merged into reconstructed Tasmanite Oil Company in 1931.[229]

Victoria

Operations in Victoria were confined to refining of crude oil from shale. The is no record of oil shale being mined in Victoria.

The list below shows shale oil operations that have been recorded in Victoria; it may not be a complete list.

Location Company

/ Owner

Operations Period of

operation

Fate
Yarraville Southern Cross Motor Fuels Company A refinery, capable of processing 20,000 gallons of crude oil per week, which started producing motor spirit in 1922.[247][248][220][221] (See also the company's operations at Latrobe, Tasmania, above.) Construction

from late 1920

Operation

1922-c.1925

Dismantled. In March 1925, seventeen truckloads of equipment from the dismantled Yarraville refinery arrived for use at Latrobe.[223]

Other states and territories

There are no recorded commercial shale oil operations that were outside New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria. However, there are reserves of oil shale, in other states and territories of Australia, and in the past there has been some exploration in the Northern Territory.[249]

See also

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