Sentences with phrase «old oil reservoir»

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

Even flooding old oil reservoirs with CO2 could prove too expensive to sustain in a world where oil costs $ 30 a barrel rather than the $ 120 a barrel of a few years back.

All of these, as well as CO2 sequestration as is (just taking CO2 and burying it in old oil reservoirs, aquifers, etc.), would be attempts to grasp the «big control knob» (see Hank Roberts» 670), and in such a way as to have the same or nearly the same (depending on seawater chemistry and how carbonate dissolution works in buffering pH relative to sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere) effect as reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

Cracked coolant reservoirs and white smoke indicates your A3 may have a blown head gasket.The oil is old too.

That same technology is now being used on old exhausted oil reserves to recover oil, and can recover oil again from low permeability reservoirs.