Sentences with phrase «yield from oil fields»

All told, companies have injected some 10.8 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas since the 1970s, according to petroleum engineer R. Tim Bradley, Kinder Morgan's president of CO2, to raise the yield from oil fields by some 650,000 extra barrels a day — more than 10 percent of daily U.S. total production.

All told, they have injected some 300 billion cubic meters of the gas since the 1970s, according to R. Tim Bradley, Kinder Morgan's president of CO2, to raise the yield from oil fields by some 650,000 extra barrels a day — more than 10 percent of daily U.S. total production.

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Sourced from Google Earth, these satellite images of oil fields and cattle feed lots represent a systematic intent to maximise production and yield in order to satisfy extraordinary levels of human consumption.

When storage is combined with enhanced oil recovery to extract extra oil from an oil field, the storage could yield net benefits of US$ 10 — 16 per tonne of CO2 injected (based on 2003 oil prices).