Sentences with phrase «old oil wells»

Injecting carbon dioxide into old oil wells to drive out more oil is one application, but it's not enough, and it's not clear it even pays, given current low oil prices.

For instance, Norway is burying carbon dioxide in old oil wells beneath the North Sea.

«Taking care of old oil wells.»

As one example, he suggests taking the BP funds that should be used to continually clean the water and marsh away from this specific use to instead use the funding to fill the canals and old oil wells caused by the oil companies that has largely led to coastal erosion.

Nationwide, the oil industry injects roughly 60 million metric tons of CO2 into old oil wells each year.

BECCS is another system that uses fast growing trees to be burned for electricity generation, and emissions stored underground in old oil wells, and deep permeable rock formations, but this needs gigantic areas of land, irrigation and fertiliser and expensive, energy intensive processes.

The commission was hearing public comment on a Terex Energy Corp. application to inject up to 10,000 gallons per day of wastewater from fracking in Colorado and Wyoming into an old oil well on a ranch in Sioux County, in the northwest corner of Nebraska.

(5) From this Artur deduces where the old oil well is, and pulls his equipment out and tells the relief well people how to adjust their drilling.

For years CO2 has been used by injecting it into old oil wells to extract more fuel, but the cost of building new plants just to store the gas is proving prohibitive.

• Unexpected Leaks: Earthquakes, geological fractures, and old oil wells all represent potential escape routes for CO2 that's supposed to be locked beneath the nonporous rock caps sitting atop saline aquifers.