Sentences with phrase «oil recovery methods»
Countries often have the option of reducing their rate of decline by adding production in areas which are more expensive to drill (say deeper, smaller locations offshore Norway) or by using enhanced oil recovery methods.
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«Researchers discover a new method to boost oil recovery: Nanofluid performance is comparable to more expensive methods.»
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a set of methods that use external fluids such as gas and soluble agents like water to recover the oil can not be extracted by conventional means and is divided into four main groups: thermal, chemical, miscible gas injection and microbial.
«Using recovery methods, oil production in Mexico would increase by nearly 800 thousand barrels per day.»
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of hydrocarbon recovery that uses high - pressure injections of fluid to break apart rock and release trapped oil and natural gas.
Marshall said as things stand, 51 percent of all oil production in the state is through «tertiary» mechanisms, or enhanced recovery methods targeted in the proposed ban as opposed to conventional forms of extraction.
And the California Public Resource Code permits «the owners or operators of -LSB--RSB- wells to utilize all methods and practices known to the oil industry for the purpose of increasing the ultimate recovery of underground hydrocarbons,» declaring it the «policy of this state» to maximize fossil - fuel production.