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1/4 Century: What Was the Oil and Gas Industry Like in the Early 2000s? Part 2

Rextag

With techniques like CO injection and steam flooding , EOR extended the life of aging fields by decades. Boosting Recovery: EOR methods increased recovery rates by up to 60%, reviving fields that had been written off. Permian Basin Pioneer: Projects here used CO injection to produce an extra 1 million barrels annually by 2005.

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A Guide to Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

Drillers

The gushing itself would now be called a blowout and drillers nowadays have blowout preventers to stop the oil from springing up in a fountain. At offshore fields, water is abundantly available and at onshore fields drillers often use the water that comes out of the well along with the oil instead of disposing of it.

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