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 carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery project.

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 Devonian Grosmont carbonate.

Saudi Aramco is experimenting with chemistry-optimized injection water for boosting oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs.

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 pressure reduced.

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 Alberta.

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 June.

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 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.

The PetroSinai joint venture has established production of 60 b/d of clean oil on a progressive cavity pump after workover of the Lagia-6 well drilled in 2000 in Lagia field on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.