Sentences with phrase «into old oil fields»

Oil and Gas Investor: The technology that fueled the U.S. shale revolution could breathe new life into old oil fields outside of North America.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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