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...this is just an annecdotal comparison, but a TV show about mining shale-oil in Canada mentioned that it took:
1 barrel of recovered oil to produce 25 barrels of normal (drilling) liquid oil
1 barrel of recovered oil to produce just 5 barrels of usable liquid oil.
...takeaway is: it's 5X harder to extract oil from shale oil than to simply drill for it.
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