The concept of staged separation has been used in production from
conventional oil reservoirs, but has not been widely applied in the production of liquids from shale formations.
Not exact matches
They looked both at wells used for enhanced
oil recovery — in which fluid is injected to flush lingering
oil from a depleted
reservoir — and at those used to dispose of wastewater from
conventional oil and gas extraction or from hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Commercial
oil production from the Monterey Formation is not new — more than a billion barrels of
oil and four trillion cubic feet of gas have been produced from it since 1977, largely from
conventional reservoirs.
A dry sump system, typically used for high - performance and race engines, does away with the
conventional oil pan and uses an
oil reservoir mounted in the car.
Alberta, Canada's Athabasca
Oil Sands is the largest
reservoir of bitumen in the world, comparable in size to the earth's largest reserve of
conventional petroleum.
Conventional oil is a mixture of mainly pentanes and hydrocarbons recoverable through an
oil well from an underground
reservoir and is a liquid at atmospheric pressure and temperature.
Because the extraction of bitumen from those sands is an energy - intensive process, it emits more greenhouse gases than the extraction of
oil from
conventional reservoirs.
This masks a healthy
conventional oil and gas sector that has demands for offshore and onshore upstream workers, such as geoscientists and
reservoir engineers, as well as downstream sales and marketing professionals.
Resourceful Petroleum Engineer / Manager with extensive California
oil & gas production experience in
conventional and unconventional (Monterey Shale and Diatomite)
reservoirs seeks senior staff position in large organization or decision - making role in small independent operating company.