Sentences with phrase «enhanced oil recovery methods»

Countries often have the option of reducing their rate of decline by adding production in areas which are more expensive to drill (say deeper, smaller locations offshore Norway) or by using enhanced oil recovery methods.

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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.

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.