Sentences with phrase «as enhanced oil recovery»

Meanwhile the demand is rising for carbon dioxide to inject into depleted oil wells, a technique known as enhanced oil recovery.

Carbon dioxide can then be stored terrestrially or under the world's oceans, or potentially utilized for other purposes, such as enhanced oil recovery, biochemical conversion into biofuels, or for energy storage technologies.

In a practice known as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), CO2 gas is pumped into existing wells to force the release of more oil.

There have been other large - scale injections of CO2 in the United States in oil fields, where the greenhouse gas is used to push out more crude in a process known as enhanced oil recovery.

Not exact matches

The reason efficiency is declining is due to decline in oil reservoir quality the world over as the best reserves of this finite resource were produced first and more recent production is more energy - intensive using enhanced oil recovery techniques.

There are also additional hidden expenditures already on the table such as royalty relief programs for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) which effectively use oil in the ground to pay for CCS over and above the $ 2 billion CCS fuOil Recovery (EOR) which effectively use oil in the ground to pay for CCS over and above the $ 2 billion CCS fuoil in the ground to pay for CCS over and above the $ 2 billion CCS fund.

Oil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaOil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaoil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surface.

Use it; don't lose it That «U» typically means enhanced oil recovery, but there is a growing interest in alternative funding options, such as using captured CO2 for algae production or pulp and paper processing.

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a set of methods that use external fluids such as gas and soluble agents like water to recover the oil can not be extracted by conventional means and is divided into four main groups: thermal, chemical, miscible gas injection and microbial.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

However, other mechanisms such as fluid withdrawal, enhanced oil recovery, or hydraulic fracturing processes can also result in induced earthquakes.»

The participants in the CSLF meetings repeatedly stressed that the problems facing CCS systems are not technological in nature, as the major components of CCS systems have been commercialized over decades of related fossil fuel refining and enhanced oil recovery activities.

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

Marshall said as things stand, 51 percent of all oil production in the state is through «tertiary» mechanisms, or enhanced recovery methods targeted in the proposed ban as opposed to conventional forms of extraction.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for oil and gas producers to implement projects to inject carbon dioxide to enhance recovery of oil or natural gas while increasing carbon dioxide sequestration; and (2) assess and report to Congress on the economic implications of the dependence of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of energy.

Known as «45Q» for where it lives in the tax code, the earlier version was intended to facilitate two types of carbon capture: enhanced oil recovery, in which carbon dioxide is pumped into aging oil reservoirs to recover more oil, and underground storage.

Using the Petra Nova project as an example for the scale of a new carbon capture project at an existing coal - fuelled power plant, a 240 - MW capture project could yield about 1.4 million metric tonnes per year for enhanced oil recovery.

Regarding process heat, only a few projects are currently operating, but the recent start of construction of a plant to provide 1,000 MW thermal power (steam) for enhanced oil recovery in Oman can be seen as an example of the future potential.

Without carbon prices, DAC systems are likely to find the largest revenue opportunities by providing CO2 for manufacturing fuels, or for use in enhanced oil recovery (as many oil fields are located far from CO2 pipelines, making them ideal candidates for flexibly - sited DAC systems).

Dr. Chichilnisky is CEO and Co-Founder of Global Thermostat, (www.Globalthermostat.com) a company that has created a «Carbon Negative Technology» ™ that captures CO2 from air and transforms it into profitable assets such as biofuels, food, beverages and enhanced oil recovery.

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).

Reservoir engineering professionals with extensive enhanced oil recovery (EOR) experience, such as flooding and hydraulic fracturing.