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How Jordan Powers 1 Million People with Rocks 

Aaron Witt
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Power is critical to any society-the more diverse a country's power grid, the stronger its people.
This brings us to the Attarat Power Company south of Amman, the capital city of Jordan.
Fed by a large deposit of oil shale (sedimentary rock with hydrocarbons trapped within), APCO built a two-235 MW turbine power plant to supply 15% of Jordan's power.
We visited the mining operation, specifically with Near East Equipment Company, Jordan's Komatsu dealer. We checked the stripping and oil shale mining operations, which featured the usual cast of enormous machines.
I had NO idea such an operation existed before we visited, which made for a fantastic day!

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@ronblack7870
@ronblack7870 17 дней назад
i wish you had also filmed the power plant and how it burns the shale and how much ash is left.
@rp1645
@rp1645 15 дней назад
Thank you so much ( Mr. Watt) 😊❤ for another great mine visit 😊❤ it's amazing that we can mine this Rock into OIL for production POWER, and with super size equipment can make a useful power out of just earth 🌎 your video are great. OIL rock in the ground can be easily harvested with the right size ( just little things like making the dump bed higher) mining dumps. You Rock my friend for showing this 😊❤😊
@patrickr2686
@patrickr2686 17 дней назад
I wonder how much diesel they use very day
@watchthe1369
@watchthe1369 18 дней назад
Burning it like coal? the Jordanian Desert is just across the border from the Saudi "empty Quarter" the dust is finer than talc and abrasive as hell. The heat is naturally extreme, the low tech solution to getting energy out of the shale, the only question is how many MW in to get MW out? Is it a positive value?
@darylkysar2478
@darylkysar2478 17 дней назад
When you going to tour the antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming?
@mhxxd4
@mhxxd4 14 дней назад
So glad I found this channel on my niche interests
@gjohnston6052
@gjohnston6052 14 дней назад
Young man knows who butters his bread.
@00000000000101010
@00000000000101010 18 дней назад
40 meters = more than 1 foot for your imperial folks.
@bobwellman9717
@bobwellman9717 18 дней назад
At 38.3 inches per meter, I would hope so.
@raass233
@raass233 17 дней назад
Some of us imperial folks also do tenths. Tenth of a foot that is.
@ReefOoze
@ReefOoze 17 дней назад
or dont be backwards and use metric
@bobwellman9717
@bobwellman9717 17 дней назад
@@ReefOoze Haven't seen a metric impact yet...You got one???
@cloggedpitot1
@cloggedpitot1 14 дней назад
How many bald eagles is that.
@DJ-bh1ju
@DJ-bh1ju 18 дней назад
Where does the overburden go?.When the rock is burned where does IT go? Yes, it's desert, but is there a remediation plan?
@mcspikesky
@mcspikesky 18 дней назад
Nobody wants to be there anyway.
@Bowiiihowdy
@Bowiiihowdy 17 дней назад
I'd imagine they throw the fly ash back into the old pits for reclamation
@DJ-bh1ju
@DJ-bh1ju 16 дней назад
@@Bowiiihowdy It'd make the most sense.
@Bowiiihowdy
@Bowiiihowdy 12 дней назад
@DJ-bh1ju if there's a bottom ash like coal plants they can also use it for cement.
@chrisb9319
@chrisb9319 16 дней назад
I somehow thought this would be a cool solution where they heat rocks up with solar power, so they can use the energy for electricity at night. But nope, just your average fossil fuel mining.
@ppercut
@ppercut 18 дней назад
thort they would exstract the oil like they do in canada or is there not enuff oil in the rocks
@douglascooper1987
@douglascooper1987 18 дней назад
Very Interesting Stuff 🤔👍
@heinekenczech
@heinekenczech 16 дней назад
Awesome vid
@jimmyr3591
@jimmyr3591 15 дней назад
Great video as always. Have you ever thought about doing a video on mine planning and what goes into it or the various types of deposits that are mined around the world?
@CoreVisual
@CoreVisual 10 дней назад
That was a sweet hyper lapse at 7:37
@UncleManuel
@UncleManuel 18 дней назад
"...for all you Imperial folks out there." It's so funny hearing that from an American. 😂😁😜🤘
@brentancoates4421
@brentancoates4421 17 дней назад
One of very few Americans with a brain
@218philip
@218philip 15 дней назад
Turn the music down!
@terrellscaife2411
@terrellscaife2411 15 дней назад
That’s really cool stuff. My thing is ROAD trucks
@jascollinscork
@jascollinscork 18 дней назад
Unbelievable setup there…. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🤯🤯🤯 great video like 😍 but what’s surprising is that the dump truck ps don’t have side step/stairs up up across the front of them 🤷🏻 AND they have a 4th face shovel??
@TheDepthsDesire
@TheDepthsDesire 18 дней назад
Mining❤
@felipeflorentino1339
@felipeflorentino1339 16 дней назад
have a nice day my freind❤❤❤❤
@Dinoxt12
@Dinoxt12 17 дней назад
Lot of action on that job...ever done a segment on the Alberta Canada, oil sand operation.
@Bowiiihowdy
@Bowiiihowdy 17 дней назад
He's got a whole bunch of videos on the oilsands
@CausticLemons7
@CausticLemons7 10 дней назад
What are the dimensions of the dump bed? I'm wondering how much extra volume those additional 40 cm of height give them. My quick googling says the bed is 23 ft. 2 in x 16 ft. 11 in, so with the extra height that's about 400 cubic feet. Crazy scales these machines work at!
@christophercale
@christophercale 18 дней назад
Another great video. Question: Due to the super dusty conditions at that location, do all of the cabs have any special air filtration installed? Is that the most dusty site you have visited?
@matt45540
@matt45540 18 дней назад
That's what zero regulation gets you
@goodson77784
@goodson77784 18 дней назад
Hell no that is one step above slave labor.
@amogusenjoyer
@amogusenjoyer 18 дней назад
​@@goodson77784no, operators aren't slave labor even in those countries. Also in the other video about phosphate, he showed that the cabins all had special air filtration iirc
@goodson77784
@goodson77784 18 дней назад
@@amogusenjoyer You cannot read apparently.
@amogusenjoyer
@amogusenjoyer 18 дней назад
@@goodson77784 what I meant is that they are very well paid usually. They aren't even close to slave labor. Maybe it's different in Jordan in this mine specifically but generally speaking, for that area, working on natural resources like this is a very cushy job.
@goodson77784
@goodson77784 18 дней назад
You'd think there would be Light Sweet Crude in Jordan
@zakburnett6690
@zakburnett6690 18 дней назад
Tell me your an oil industry working in some form without telling me 😂😂
@goodson77784
@goodson77784 18 дней назад
@@zakburnett6690 busted.
@unsatisfiedfans7422
@unsatisfiedfans7422 18 дней назад
Is oil shale the same type as the oil sand?
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 18 дней назад
It’s kind of similar in a sense that it’s both near the surface and can be mined, but it’s quite different beyond that
@nt5434
@nt5434 18 дней назад
Similar premis, but sands are unconsolidated (Not properly rock yet), whereas shale is compressed clay (Heat and Pressure) so it's actually rock. Both contain oil that can be used. Too much heat and it all turns to natural gas.
@KnightTime13
@KnightTime13 13 дней назад
idk if its cause im high...but listening to you explain how they extended the truck beds upward was so confusting
@michaelseldon3815
@michaelseldon3815 3 дня назад
i can see two darker spots of seemingly rich shale moving with your lens
@SmashingBricksAU
@SmashingBricksAU 17 дней назад
Komatsu's HD785. WA900, PC850. I am supposed that they are not using a PC1250 to load the trucks. We call the extra boards on the side of the haul trucks "Hungry Boards". Cool to see more Komatsu machines!
@mohammadyounes593
@mohammadyounes593 13 дней назад
This mine deployed 2xPC1250 last month😂
@AndyFromBeaverton
@AndyFromBeaverton 18 дней назад
You rock Aaron!
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 18 дней назад
you're too kind
@Excavator2006
@Excavator2006 18 дней назад
0:52 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@leonardryan8723
@leonardryan8723 18 дней назад
Why there just order bigger box for quarry trucks ? 😊
@stakman78
@stakman78 17 дней назад
Hilux hard. NZ style
@domtweed7323
@domtweed7323 18 дней назад
How do oil shales compare to coal in energy density?
@davidanalyst671
@davidanalyst671 18 дней назад
coal has a lot more economic sense, and moree dense. coal is super smoggy and causes lung problems, and it makes little greta cry
@domtweed7323
@domtweed7323 18 дней назад
@@davidanalyst671 In that case, how is oil shale power viable in Jordan? (which boarders several countries with virtually unlimited natural gas as a byproduct of their oil operations).
@matt45540
@matt45540 18 дней назад
​@@domtweed7323free is free, then you add in the fact that it adds some jobs locally. Even if they're all breathing in toxic dust all day, they're making money
@GOOD_FARMER
@GOOD_FARMER 18 дней назад
​@@davidanalyst671nope it depends on type and quality of coal.
@amogusenjoyer
@amogusenjoyer 18 дней назад
​@@domtweed7323it's about independence and resources. Countries like Jordan just don't have enough foreign currency to buy everything off the international market. Even if it costs more in labor costs, etc, it doesn't matter as that's local. They can't just throw billions to buy Saudi oil, because they don't have billions of dollars. They have plenty of people that can work even if it's less efficient than burning oil.
@BIBIWCICC
@BIBIWCICC 16 дней назад
Much better to start using solar, especially in Jordan.
@linggayoni
@linggayoni 11 дней назад
Hai Aaron, when you will going to Indonesian mining in Bornea Island for coal mining... BTW I'm from Indonesia.
@mittendj
@mittendj 18 дней назад
who is doing your colour grading for the video its all over the place.
@watchthe1369
@watchthe1369 18 дней назад
it is toooooobbb not hollyweird.
@ronblack7870
@ronblack7870 17 дней назад
i didn't even notice any issue . some people just need to complain.
@andrewrees8749
@andrewrees8749 13 дней назад
Get a life ...
@DarylVogel
@DarylVogel 13 дней назад
It is a low grade fuel very dirty, it works but cost a lot to mined... You do with what you have to...
@jamesadams893
@jamesadams893 18 дней назад
Is the Jordanian government going to require that the landscape will be returned to its original configuration before mining when the operations are all done
@johnd5805
@johnd5805 18 дней назад
Original configuration? Desert is desert.
@tywatts7834
@tywatts7834 18 дней назад
Plant trees and grass and make it green 💚
@jamesadams893
@jamesadams893 18 дней назад
@@johnd5805 I know I was being sarcastic, Jordan is one big sandpile
@user-br9bq9vu2d
@user-br9bq9vu2d 18 дней назад
@@tywatts7834with no rain good luck
@johnd5805
@johnd5805 18 дней назад
@@jamesadams893 oh ok. I should recognize sarcasm. My ex co-worker was the most sarcastic women I've ever met in my life.
@crakkbone
@crakkbone 18 дней назад
Coal? I mean, coal is rocks. So most of the world does this.
@sargent420
@sargent420 14 дней назад
Is there something wrong with us “imperial folks”?
@johnhornblow4347
@johnhornblow4347 17 дней назад
A solar farm would be more cost effective and less destruction to the environment.
@William-McCueRC
@William-McCueRC 17 дней назад
Wrong
@dwaynejava
@dwaynejava День назад
CLIMATE CHANGE?????
@brandonrippeonphoto
@brandonrippeonphoto 18 дней назад
But I’m supposed to get rid of my ICE for the environment 🤔
@johnd5805
@johnd5805 18 дней назад
Yea. All of that is propaganda isn't it. al gore has 5 yuge houses that use a lot of electricity. They've all gotten rich in their lying.
@zakburnett6690
@zakburnett6690 18 дней назад
Yep while the government gets brand new trucks with zero emissions equipment
@tristenklein5940
@tristenklein5940 18 дней назад
Only if you want to become a Russian Serf to the State and the corrupt Ruling Class in charge!
@kenselectricalserviceandge5919
@kenselectricalserviceandge5919 18 дней назад
@@zakburnett6690 those rules don’t apply in Jordan lol
@zakburnett6690
@zakburnett6690 18 дней назад
@@kenselectricalserviceandge5919 I'm obviously not talking about some 3rd world sh|t hole buddy smarten up
@johnzach2057
@johnzach2057 16 дней назад
😂😂 That mine would be producing much more power if they just installed solar panels. It's just desert after all.
@davidanalyst671
@davidanalyst671 18 дней назад
if they got oil rocks, they gotta have some pretty good nat gas deposits around there too... the usa stopped using diesel and gasoline for electric cause its 3X as expensive as nat gas...
@rosewhite---
@rosewhite--- 18 дней назад
The area was a depression that filled with silt and dead creatures during The Flood 4,370 years ago.
@tomrogers9467
@tomrogers9467 18 дней назад
Fairy Tale time, kids!
@rosewhite---
@rosewhite--- 17 дней назад
@@tomrogers9467 I bet yoir head is full of foairy tales - like how you are evolved from monkeys.
@thatonedude8900
@thatonedude8900 18 дней назад
i wonder if they know in Jordan that we are trying to REDUCE emissions, not PRODUCE more of it
@raass233
@raass233 17 дней назад
Jordan is probably not concerned with your we.
@adriangospodaru9733
@adriangospodaru9733 17 дней назад
Stop washing your brain with the davos bullshit
@wheressteve
@wheressteve 14 дней назад
You can rest easy knowing they don't care.
@Machines.In.Action
@Machines.In.Action 18 дней назад
I never knew rocks could be used to generate electricity. This is a game-changer for renewable energy!
@davidanalyst671
@davidanalyst671 18 дней назад
he showed you this process in canada, insted of rocks, they call it oil shale
@torbenmichalk3246
@torbenmichalk3246 18 дней назад
Bro, it is not renewable because it Contains oil
@matt45540
@matt45540 18 дней назад
This isn't renewable, That's why making misleading titles like we're getting energy from rocks dangerous.
@tristenklein5940
@tristenklein5940 18 дней назад
Renewable energy is 10 times more damaging to the environment than anything fossil fuels close to fossil fuels are natural decay of plant material in the earths crust all natural renewables are man-made with toxic nickel Cambian, cobalt, mercury, and other toxins that are not recyclable and requires specialized landfills after the 20 year lifespan has expired for windmill and solar
@tristenklein5940
@tristenklein5940 18 дней назад
@@Machines.In.Action do your research renewable energy is 100x more expensive damaging and dangerous to the environment than coal natural gas and oil.
@chrisward5626
@chrisward5626 17 дней назад
It’s disgusting seeing all those trucks and earth moved just to burn the rock and running 24/7 just to create electricity. That would have to be the most inefficient thing ever . Burning so much it takes 2 trucks dumping at a time 🤦‍♂️
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