Sentences with phrase «of old oil fields»

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In North America's most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.

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.

Now Brazilian officials speak of 50 billion barrels or more lying below the salt: a 160 - million - year - old empire of hydrocarbons, comparable in volume to the great oil fields of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, spread below an expanse of ocean half the size of Italy — all suddenly within reach.

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.

In general, I tend to agree more with the «peak oil» theory than disagree with it, mainly because there haven't been a lot of new big oil finds, and depletion of old fields continues.

The increments offered by ANWR and offshore are useful but aren't going to do much to bring down the price of oil or lessen our dependence on the Saudis and Russians — certainly not now, and probably not much in the future, when those increments come online and do little more, probably, than offset declines in older American fields.

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.

Seawater is threatening to swamp the wells of Cantarell as the field's pressure diminishes, a debilitating symptom of old age that makes it tougher to extract the remaining oil.

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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.

As we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gas.