Game Changer Improvements Could Dramatically Increase Domestic Oil Resource Recovery
An analysis by Advanced Resources International, Arlington, VA, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy
The report, Evaluating the Potential "Game Changer" Improvements in Oil Recovery Efficiency for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery, illustrates that the wide-scale implementation of "next generation" CO2-EOR technology advances have the potential to increase domestic oil recovery efficiency from about one-third to over 60 percent, doubling the technically recoverable resources in six domestic oil basins/areas studied to date. Application of next generation CO2-EOR technologies extrapolated to other U.S. oil basins and regions could bring about truly "game changing" advances in oil recovery efficiency and domestic oil production.
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