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Oil Majors Seek Power Of The Sun

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Using solar-powered facilities in enhanced oil recovery has attracted widespread attention in the industry, and now the sector’s largest firms are moving the technology out of the lab and into the market.

GlassPoint Solar’s successful start-up of the first commercial solar thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) system in California has raised questions about the technology’s prospects for widespread use, both in the US and internationally. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Natural Gas Enhances Oil Recovery

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Using natural gas in enhanced oil recovery is far from new, but it does have a new lease on life in recent months as crude oil prices have remained strong.

Domestic oil production is on the rise, though it would be hard to know that natural gas had a role in the increase by listening to the public debate. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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