Sentences with phrase «crude oil reservoirs»

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SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.

Gains in Texas crude oil production come primarily from unconventional tight oil and shale reservoirs in the Eagle Ford Shale in the Western Gulf Basin and the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Typically, oil extractions focus on big oil reservoirs in bedrock from which the crude oil is pumped out.

It is expected to take another two months for BP to reach this depth, which is just above the oil reservoir, a subsurface pool of crude and natural gas sandwiched between layers of rock.

There, the researchers say, vast reservoirs of crude oil and hydrocarbons were tucked beneath a shallow sea, waiting to be set ablaze.

A breach in ExxonMobil's Pegasus crude oil pipeline occurred late Friday afternoon near Mayflower, AR (about 20 miles north northwest of Little Rock and at the southwestern end of the Lake Conway reservoir).

An international team of researchers has shown how anaerobic microbes in oil deposits around the world — including in unconventional sources such as the oil sands — naturally break down crude oil into methane in the reservoir.

The only offsetting positive is where the CO2 can be piped to an oil field and injected for EOR (it reduces the in situ crude viscosity, enabling more of the in place resource to be recovered over time, depending on many geophysical details like crude API and reservoir porosity, permeability, wetability, and saturation.)

In the oil industry, some underground crude contains natural gas that is entrained in the oil at high reservoir pressures.

Crude oil development and production in U.S. oil reservoirs can include up to three distinct phases: primary, secondary, and tertiary (or enhanced)...