Sentences with phrase «old oil fields»

Put it in a greenhouse, argues new solar start - up GlassPoint, which unveiled its first such solar hot water greenhouse on February 24 — in a dusty, old oil field in California's Central Valley.

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.

It's technically called induced seismicity or human induced earthquakes and commonly occurs during water flooding of old oil fields for enhanced oil recovery.

Two of the world's biggest energy producers have abandoned the sale of some of Australia's oldest oil fields after running a 20 - month sales process.

Extraction technology — improved methods of extracting oil from old oil fields are always being developed;

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.

A question was posed about the extensive and decades - old oil fields in neighborhoods near the Culver City venue for the talk, and the prospect for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, expanding there and elsewhere in the state.

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.

Last week, Saskatchewan approved a Can $ 1.2 - billion project — funded in part by Can $ 240 million from the Canadian government — that would pump roughly one million tons of carbon dioxide from a newly rebuilt Boundary Dam power plant into an old oil field.

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.

We're headed to the old trailer home that's become the operational headquarters for Tellus Operating Group, a wildcat oil company with some old oil fields in this neck of the woods.

Then, early last year, Exxon launched a project in an old oil field 14 miles away and began fracking wells to get them to produce more oil.

That hot water will then be boiled to steam with natural gas and used to heat the rock in old oil fields to pump out more petroleum.

But new coal plants would still likely need to use in their construction some type of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) system to capture CO2 gas before it goes out the smokestack — and instead pump it deep into either underground salt - water aquifers — or alternatively inject it deep into older oil fields to squeeze more oil out of them.

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, notes Wired.

Some of its older oil fields are largely depleted, and it remains to be seen whether pumping from new fields will be sufficient to more than offset the loss from the old ones.