News tagged with oil recovery

SRNL's microbes useful for for environmental cleanup and oil recovery

Oct 16, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1

A unique, patent-pending collection of microbes that can be used both for cleaning up the environment and addressing our energy needs has earned the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory kudos from ...

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'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent

Chemistry /

Sep 08, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (29) | 0

Researchers in Norway report that injecting a special type of seawater called "smart water" into certain low-yield oil wells may help boost oil extraction by as much as 60 percent. The study could help meet ...

Carbon sequestration field test begins

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

May 16, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

The U.S. Department of Energy says its Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium has started its first enhanced oil recovery field test in Illinois.

New hope for tapping vast domestic reserves of oil shale

Chemistry /

Sep 22, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (35) | 11

Researchers in Canada and Turkey report discovery of a new process for economically tapping vast resources of crude oil in the United States, Canada, and other countries now locked away in rocky deposits called ...

A better way to pinpoint underground oil reserves

Technology / Engineering

Jan 14, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers’ efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.

UK economy is hostage to oil, warns expert

Other Sciences / Other

Jun 09, 2008 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The UK's economy cannot make a sustainable recovery until it breaks free of its dependence on oil, an expert at the University of Liverpool is warning.

Geotimes explores oil around the world

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 04, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 1

With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month’s cover story “Oil Around the World.”

2002 oil spill caused changes in the cell structure of mussels

Space & Earth / Environment

Mar 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The oil spill from the Prestige petroleum oil tanker in 2002 caused serious damage to the ecosystems in the Bay of Biscay. A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has studied the consequences of this ...

Undersea channels might aid oil recovery

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

May 22, 2006 | 1.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are trying to help energy companies draw millions of additional barrels of oil from the sea.

Advanced Energy Consortium will develop micro and nanosensors to boost energy production

Technology / Engineering

Jan 15, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

The Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences announces the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC), a multimillion-dollar research consortium dedicated to the development of ...