How Jordan Powers 1 Million People with Rocks

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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 14 күн бұрын

i wish you had also filmed the power plant and how it burns the shale and how much ash is left.

@rp1645 12 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

I wonder how much diesel they use very day

@darylkysar2478 15 күн бұрын

When you going to tour the antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming?

@mhxxd4 11 күн бұрын

So glad I found this channel on my niche interests

@watchthe1369 15 күн бұрын

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?

@chrisb9319 13 күн бұрын

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.

@douglascooper1987 15 күн бұрын

Very Interesting Stuff 🤔👍

@gjohnston6052 11 күн бұрын

Young man knows who butters his bread.

@DJ-bh1ju 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

Nobody wants to be there anyway.

@Bowiiihowdy 14 күн бұрын

I'd imagine they throw the fly ash back into the old pits for reclamation

@DJ-bh1ju 13 күн бұрын

@@Bowiiihowdy It'd make the most sense.

@Bowiiihowdy 9 күн бұрын

@DJ-bh1ju if there's a bottom ash like coal plants they can also use it for cement.

@00000000000101010 15 күн бұрын

40 meters = more than 1 foot for your imperial folks.

@bobwellman9717 15 күн бұрын

At 38.3 inches per meter, I would hope so.

@raass233 15 күн бұрын

Some of us imperial folks also do tenths. Tenth of a foot that is.

@ReefOoze 14 күн бұрын

or dont be backwards and use metric

@bobwellman9717 14 күн бұрын

@@ReefOoze Haven't seen a metric impact yet...You got one???

@cloggedpitot1 11 күн бұрын

How many bald eagles is that.

@ppercut 15 күн бұрын

thort they would exstract the oil like they do in canada or is there not enuff oil in the rocks

@CoreVisual 7 күн бұрын

That was a sweet hyper lapse at 7:37

@jimmyr3591 12 күн бұрын

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?

@heinekenczech 13 күн бұрын

Awesome vid

@terrellscaife2411 12 күн бұрын

That’s really cool stuff. My thing is ROAD trucks

@felipeflorentino1339 13 күн бұрын

have a nice day my freind❤❤❤❤

@Dinoxt12 14 күн бұрын

Lot of action on that job...ever done a segment on the Alberta Canada, oil sand operation.

@Bowiiihowdy 14 күн бұрын

He's got a whole bunch of videos on the oilsands

@unsatisfiedfans7422 15 күн бұрын

Is oil shale the same type as the oil sand?

@AaronWitt 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

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.

@TheDepthsDesire 15 күн бұрын

Mining❤

@christophercale 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

That's what zero regulation gets you

@goodson77784 15 күн бұрын

Hell no that is one step above slave labor.

@amogusenjoyer 15 күн бұрын

@@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 15 күн бұрын

@@amogusenjoyer You cannot read apparently.

@amogusenjoyer 15 күн бұрын

@@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 15 күн бұрын

You'd think there would be Light Sweet Crude in Jordan

@zakburnett6690 15 күн бұрын

Tell me your an oil industry working in some form without telling me 😂😂

@goodson77784 15 күн бұрын

@@zakburnett6690 busted.

@jascollinscork 15 күн бұрын

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??

@UncleManuel 15 күн бұрын

"...for all you Imperial folks out there." It's so funny hearing that from an American. 😂😁😜🤘

@brentancoates4421 14 күн бұрын

One of very few Americans with a brain

@218philip 12 күн бұрын

Turn the music down!

@michaelseldon3815 21 сағат бұрын

i can see two darker spots of seemingly rich shale moving with your lens

@CausticLemons7 7 күн бұрын

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!

@AndyFromBeaverton 15 күн бұрын

You rock Aaron!

@AaronWitt 15 күн бұрын

you're too kind

@stakman78 14 күн бұрын

Hilux hard. NZ style

@KnightTime13 10 күн бұрын

idk if its cause im high...but listening to you explain how they extended the truck beds upward was so confusting

@domtweed7323 15 күн бұрын

How do oil shales compare to coal in energy density?

@davidanalyst671 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

@@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 15 күн бұрын

@@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 15 күн бұрын

@@davidanalyst671nope it depends on type and quality of coal.

@amogusenjoyer 15 күн бұрын

@@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.

@pranavnair2797 15 күн бұрын

0:52 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@SmashingBricksAU 14 күн бұрын

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 10 күн бұрын

This mine deployed 2xPC1250 last month😂

@leonardryan8723 15 күн бұрын

Why there just order bigger box for quarry trucks ? 😊

@jamesadams893 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

Original configuration? Desert is desert.

@tywatts7834 15 күн бұрын

Plant trees and grass and make it green 💚

@jamesadams893 15 күн бұрын

@@johnd5805 I know I was being sarcastic, Jordan is one big sandpile

@user-br9bq9vu2d 15 күн бұрын

@@tywatts7834with no rain good luck

@johnd5805 15 күн бұрын

@@jamesadams893 oh ok. I should recognize sarcasm. My ex co-worker was the most sarcastic women I've ever met in my life.

@mittendj 15 күн бұрын

who is doing your colour grading for the video its all over the place.

@watchthe1369 15 күн бұрын

it is toooooobbb not hollyweird.

@ronblack7870 14 күн бұрын

i didn't even notice any issue . some people just need to complain.

@andrewrees8749 10 күн бұрын

Get a life ...

@BIBIWCICC 13 күн бұрын

Much better to start using solar, especially in Jordan.

@linggayoni 8 күн бұрын

Hai Aaron, when you will going to Indonesian mining in Bornea Island for coal mining... BTW I'm from Indonesia.

@johnhornblow4347 15 күн бұрын

A solar farm would be more cost effective and less destruction to the environment.

@William-McCueRC 14 күн бұрын

Wrong

@DarylVogel 10 күн бұрын

It is a low grade fuel very dirty, it works but cost a lot to mined... You do with what you have to...

@crakkbone 15 күн бұрын

Coal? I mean, coal is rocks. So most of the world does this.

@sargent420 11 күн бұрын

Is there something wrong with us “imperial folks”?

@brandonrippeonphoto 15 күн бұрын

But I’m supposed to get rid of my ICE for the environment 🤔

@johnd5805 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

Yep while the government gets brand new trucks with zero emissions equipment

@tristenklein5940 15 күн бұрын

Only if you want to become a Russian Serf to the State and the corrupt Ruling Class in charge!

@kenselectricalserviceandge5919 15 күн бұрын

@@zakburnett6690 those rules don’t apply in Jordan lol

@zakburnett6690 15 күн бұрын

@@kenselectricalserviceandge5919 I'm obviously not talking about some 3rd world sh|t hole buddy smarten up

@johnzach2057 13 күн бұрын

😂😂 That mine would be producing much more power if they just installed solar panels. It's just desert after all.

@davidanalyst671 15 күн бұрын

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--- 15 күн бұрын

The area was a depression that filled with silt and dead creatures during The Flood 4,370 years ago.

@tomrogers9467 15 күн бұрын

Fairy Tale time, kids!

@rosewhite--- 14 күн бұрын

@@tomrogers9467 I bet yoir head is full of foairy tales - like how you are evolved from monkeys.

@thatonedude8900 15 күн бұрын

i wonder if they know in Jordan that we are trying to REDUCE emissions, not PRODUCE more of it

@raass233 15 күн бұрын

Jordan is probably not concerned with your we.

@adriangospodaru9733 14 күн бұрын

Stop washing your brain with the davos bullshit

@wheressteve 11 күн бұрын

You can rest easy knowing they don't care.

@chrisward5626 14 күн бұрын

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 🤦‍♂️

@Machines.In.Action 15 күн бұрын

I never knew rocks could be used to generate electricity. This is a game-changer for renewable energy!

@davidanalyst671 15 күн бұрын

he showed you this process in canada, insted of rocks, they call it oil shale

@torbenmichalk3246 15 күн бұрын

Bro, it is not renewable because it Contains oil

@matt45540 15 күн бұрын

This isn't renewable, That's why making misleading titles like we're getting energy from rocks dangerous.

@tristenklein5940 15 күн бұрын

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 15 күн бұрын

@@Machines.In.Action do your research renewable energy is 100x more expensive damaging and dangerous to the environment than coal natural gas and oil.