Sentences with phrase «into oil reservoirs»

Describing the work of the Calgary group, Professor Amrein says «While we do some work for the energy sector (to predict behaviour of nanoparticles injected into oil reservoirs) our main focus is medicine.

When injected into the oil reservoir, it mixes with the oil and mobilizes more of it — like turpentine cleaning paint — and then allows it to be pumped to the surface.

One way to counteract this decrease in pressure is to inject a fluid — commonly CO2 — into the oil reservoir to force more oil to the surface.

Not exact matches

By contrast, two studies of EnCana spinoff Cenovus Energy's carbon capture and storage project in Weyburn, Sask., debunked claims by the owners of a nearby farm that carbon dioxide pumped into depleted oil reservoirs was escaping.

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.

The well was in a seismically active zone of the Rangely oil reservoir in Colorado, and Chevron had been injecting water into the well to stimulate petroleum production.

A relief well is intended to provide an opening into the casing of the original well at a point near the oil reservoir.

Since 1972 CO2 has been injected into U.S. oil reservoirs continuously, resulting in an extra two billion barrels of oil and a billion metric tons of CO2 stored underground.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

Image shows a cold water geyser driven by carbon dioxide erupting from an unplugged oil exploration well drilled in 1936 into a natural CO2 reservoir in Utah.

But it does reduce overall emissions by at least 24 percent, calculates petroleum engineer Ronald Evans, Denbury's senior vice president of reservoir engineering: every recovered barrel of oil eventually puts 0.42 metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere, but 0.52 to 0.64 metric ton are injected underground recovering it.

«In order to simulate the oil recovery process we divide the reservoir up into small segments or cells and describe how the oil migrates from cell to cell.

But it does reduce overall emissions by at least 24 percent, calculates Ronald Evans, Denbury's senior vice president of reservoir engineering: every recovered barrel of oil eventually puts 0.42 metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere, but 0.52 to 0.64 metric ton is injected underground in recovering it.

Landrø has studied everything from putting seismic data to work to discover new undersea oil reservoirs to visualizing what happens to CO2 injected into an undersea reservoir, as is being done now in the Sleipner Field in the North Sea.

Abandoned oil wells and depleted natural gas reservoirs might also work, Peek says, as long as they are not too remote to be hooked into the electrical grid.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

Petroleum engineers in Texas have found that when they pump fluid into one end of an oil reservoir to push oil out the other, the injected fluid sometimes flows around the reservoir, completely missing the targeted zone.

My 02 Buick LeSabre has oil coming from the radiator into the coolant reservoir.

The tube for the dipstick goes right down into this reservoir to measure the level of the oil.

Under normal circumstances I would expect the oil to flow into the coolant reservoir and not vice versa due to pressure differentials (oil is usually at a higher pressure than coolant).

Is the oil still leaking into the coolant reservoir?

Have into account two factors: oil viscosity may be much or very much higher than the antifreeze fluid (glicol - polipropylene derivates) normally used: the radiator grille has capilare - thickness tubes and an hydraulic circuit (pump, filter, reservoir...) prepared for much less viscosity.

Trump's EPA would allow wastewater from oil and gas wells, including fracked wells, to make its way into US rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs after some treatment.

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.

When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine - tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas.

Since 2013, around 0.7 million tonnes per year of carbon dioxide stripped from the gas is being pumped back into the production reservoir to enhance oil recovery.

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.

NRG will then pipe that compressed CO2 80 miles to an oil field, where the CO2 will be injected into an old oil reservoir.

Many power plants close to oil - fields have been able to earn money by capturing their CO2, and pumping into oil - reservoirs.

Reservoir repressuring: The injection of a pressurized fluid (such as air, gas, or water) into oil and gas reservoir formations to effect greater ultimate recovery.

The separation process could increase the amount of fuel obtained by enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide injected into existing reservoirs.