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AFTER the first Oil Shale and Cannel Coal Conference in June 1938, it was resolved that the Institute of Petroleum should consider the question of holding a similar conference within the next ten years. This has not been possible, owing to the War ; but 1950 is the centenary year of the James Young patent which led to the foundation of the Scottish shale oil industry, and it is therefore proposed to convene the second Conference on Oil Shale and Cannel Coal to meet in Glasgow during the week commencing July 3, 1950. At the same time the Young centenary will be celebrated by a Young Memorial Lecture. The technical sessions of the Conference will be in three sections, as follows: A—geology and mining ; B—retorting, refining and uses of by-products ; C—economics and statistics. An all-day visit to a shale mine and shale-oil refinery will be a feature of the Conference. Further information can be obtained from the Secretary of the Institute of Petroleum, 26 Portland Place, London, W.I.
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Oil Shale and Cannel Coal Conference of the Institute of Petroleum. Nature 164, 216 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164216b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164216b0