Jul

16

Oil Forecasting Technique May Cut Shale Operator Costs

July 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed an analytical procedure that can be used in spreadsheets to predict the amount of oil and gas that can be recovered from newly drilled wells. Porous rock containing oil and natural gas are buried so deep inside the earth that shale operators rely on complex models of […]

Dec

11

The Big Oil Find Facts

December 11, 2018 | Leave a Comment

The USGS announced last week a very large oil reservoir in Texas and New Mexico. Located in the Permian basin the Mass Media picked it up and it is good news. For quick background the USGS has been evaluating oil reservoirs for decades and has a pretty good reputation lacking political bias and scientific extremism. […]

Jul

13

Making Fuel From CO2 and Water With Solar Heat

July 13, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the ETH Zurich have collaborated to develop a ground-breaking process for making solar fuel. The new procedure uses the sun’s thermal energy to convert carbon dioxide and water directly into synthetic fuel. The team has unveiled a chemical process that uses the sun’s thermal energy to convert […]

Oct

22

Cleaning Up The Water From Hydraulic Fracturing

October 22, 2014 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia say they have found an economical solution to cleaning out the biggest pollutant from hydraulic fracturing oil and gas wells. The pollutant is salt in the water used to fracture the rock, that’s much saltier than seawater, after leaching salts from deep below the surface. The boom in […]

Jun

17

A Lot More Oil Where It’s Already Come From

June 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

Chinese scientists have already succeeded in recovering a sensational 15% of the residual oil in their test reservoir when they formed a collaboration with the Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR) in Bergen, Norway researchers to find out what had actually taken place down in the reservoir. Oil in reservoirs is confined in tiny pores […]

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