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Gullfaks subsea compression proceeding May 23, 2012 Statoil and Petoro have agreed to install subsea gas compression to handle production from the Brent reservoir at Gullfaks South oil field in the North Sea offshore Norway (OGJ Online, Apr. 13, 201...
LINN Energy joins Anadarko in Salt Creek carbon dioxide flood May 18, 2012 LINN Energy LLC, Houston, will fund $400 million of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s future development costs in giant Salt Creek oil field in Wyoming in exchange for being assigned a 23% interest in the...
Laricina: Carbonate SAGD test 'encouraging' May 16, 2012 Laricina Energy Ltd., Calgary, reported “encouraging” production test results at its Saleski pilot in the Athabasca region of Alberta, the first steam-assisted gravity drainage project in the Upper...
ConocoPhillips group evaluating Alaska hydrate test May 14, 2012 An industry-government group has recovered gas from methane hydrates through a well on the Alaska North Slope in a tightly controlled test in which carbon dioxide and nitrogen were injected and the...
Aramco studies injection-water 'tuning' May 8, 2012 Saudi Aramco is experimenting with chemistry-optimized injection water for boosting oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs.
ConocoPhillips group evaluating Alaska hydrate test May 4, 2012 An industry-government group has recovered gas from methane hydrates through a well on the Alaska North Slope in a tightly controlled test in which carbon dioxide and nitrogen were injected and the...
CNRL applies for in situ oil sands project May 2, 2012 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary, has applied with provincial authorities to develop an in situ project to produce as much 50,000 b/d of bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands region of Alber...
Denbury to buy Gulf Coast Thompson oil field May 1, 2012 Denbury Resources Inc., Plano, Tex., has agreed to buy Thompson field in Fort Bend County, Tex., from a private seller for $360 million cash and a production payment. Closing is expected in early J...
DOE reports EOR success at Lawrence field in Illinois Apr 26, 2012 Enhanced oil recovery has been successfully applied to increase production at an Illinois oil field well past its peak by more than 300%, the US Department of Energy said on Apr. 25.
Denbury updates EOR floods, Bakken production Apr 16, 2012 Denbury Resources Inc., Plano, Tex., estimated its production in the quarter ended Mar. 31 to have been 71,532 b/d of oil equivalent, 93% oil and an 8% increase from the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011.