Energy superpower Iran discovers oil shales

Iran has found possible oil shales in southeast Kerman and northern Semnan as the country is trying to figure out an estimate of its unconventional hydrocarbon reserves. 
 This satellite image shows Kuh-e Namak (Salt Mountain) in the Simply Folded Zagros in southwest Iran which holds enormous oil and gas accumulations. 
“Preliminary explorations have found three or four oil shale horizons with signs of kerogen near Kerman and southern Semnan,” the IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed energy source.
Shale reserves have already been confirmed in Iran’s Zagros Basin and near Aligudarz in the Lorestan province, he said.

“The Garoo formation in Lorestan contains the biggest shale reserves yet and the Kajdomi formation in Gachsaran also holds a significant capacity,” he added.