Sentences with phrase «from old oil fields»

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Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Today about one quarter of that CO2 comes from industries that happen to be located close to old oil fields and produce lots of CO2 as a by - product, such as fertilizer manufacturing plants or cement kilns.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Roughly 40 percent of the oil produced from California's century - old fields relies on the steam technique — and it is the largest industrial use of natural gas in that state.

But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.

In the old energy economy, pipelines carried oil from fields to consumers or to ports, where it was loaded on tankers.

One of the oldest CO2 storage projects aimed at squeezing more oil from old oil - fields was started in 2001, at Weyburn in Saskatchewan, Canada.