Archive for August 27th, 2007

Using rather than storing CO2

27th 2007f August, 2007, Jon

Oil industries use a technique to improve recovery rates from mature oil wells by injecting CO2 into the oil fields, which reduces the viscosity of the oil allowing them to raise output tremendously. EnCana has contracted with the Great Plains Synfuel power plant to ship the CO2 that it creates to the oil fields where [...]