As part of the deal, both the companies will collaborate on oil shale processing and plant design, to convert oil shale into liquid fuel and gas, as well as upgrading required for synthetic crude oil production.

Neste Jacobs will take part in GOS’s oil shale processing plant development, which include engineering, process modelling, testing and optimising, construction commissioning and health and safety monitoring of GOS oil shale plants.

The company will also act as a joint coordinator and project manager to incorporate details from GOS’s other partnerships, to maintain oil shale concentration and thermal processing, which will allow efficient modelling, scaling up and simulation of oil shale processes.

GOS’s 2.18 billion boe oil shale project, which is located in the Julia Creek in Queensland, Australia, will be the first project as part of the agreement.