American Shale Oil, LLC (AMSO) is one of five companies holding leases granted by the federal Bureau of Land Management to research, develop and demonstrate shale oil extraction processes on federal lands.

AMSO's mission is to demonstrate that its proprietary, break-through processes can produce commercial quantities of oil in an environmentally sound, socially responsible and commercially viable manner.  

The AMSO team is excited about the potential for oil shale to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, and we believe that policy makers, government agencies and the public and private sectors generally must join forces to build a sustainable oil shale industry in the United States.

AMSO is  a 50/50 joint venture of IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT, IDT.C) and Total (NYSE: TOT).  AMSO's offices are located in  Rifle, CO; Newark, NJ; and Livermore, CA.