OREANDA-NEWS. June 09, 2009. BNS - The Tallinn University of Technology is to host an international symposium on oil shale on Monday and Tuesday.

The event's sponsors are Eesti Energia, Colorado School of Mines, Tallinn University of Technology Tallinna and the University of Tartu.

The symposium will be opened by Eesti Energia Board Chairman Sandor Liive and the rector of the Tallinn University of Technology, Peep Surje, Eesti Energia said.

The Estonian minister of economy and communications, Juhan Parts, will speak about the importance of the oil shale industry for Estonia in the future.

Edward Lucas, writer and correspondent for The Economist in Eastern Europe, will speak about the strategic importance of oil shale, while the remarks by Peter Weber, vice president of the international engineering company Outotec, will focus on a technology for the production of shale oil developed together with Eesti Energia that is more environment-friendly, reliable, and boasts a greater per-unit capacity than the technologies used so far.