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OIL SHALE DEPOSITS Oil shale deposits in the Western United States are the most concentrated hydrocarbon resource in the world. Despite the national significance of this resource the Federal government is currently doing extraordinarily little to encourage the research and development that will be required to produce oil and natural gas from these oil shale deposits in the future. NOSA Who are We The National Oil Shale Association NOSA is a Colorado nonprofit 501 c6 organization formed to educate and inform the public elected officials and government agencies about this large domestic undeveloped energy resource that could if developed dramatically alter the nations energy mix and significantly enhance the economy of certain regions of the United States. refined into gasoline diesel and jet fuel along with other petroleum byproducts Oil shale rocks contain a solid organic material called kerogen that when heated produces oil that can be refined into gasoline diesel and jet fuel along with other petroleum byproducts.