Sentences with phrase «largest enhanced oil recovery»

(OAKLAND, CA) October 3, 2011 — BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, is providing its proprietary LPT solar thermal technology for use in the world's largest enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project.

Since 1999 the largest enhanced oil recovery (EOR) company operating in Mississippi, Denbury, estimates it has spent more than $ 5 billion to build and operate oil facilities and pipelines using CO2 in the Magnolia State alone.

Not exact matches

There have been other large - scale injections of CO2 in the United States in oil fields, where the greenhouse gas is used to push out more crude in a process known as enhanced oil recovery.

In fact, many of the largest CCS projects in the world are connected to enhanced oil recovery operations.

But the paper's author, Graham Thomson, a journalist at The Edmonton Journal, argues that there's a unproven leap between enhanced oil recovery projects and long - term, large - scale carbon capture and storage.

Without carbon prices, DAC systems are likely to find the largest revenue opportunities by providing CO2 for manufacturing fuels, or for use in enhanced oil recovery (as many oil fields are located far from CO2 pipelines, making them ideal candidates for flexibly - sited DAC systems).