HOUSTON, Aug. 31 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release:
University of Houston report finds Texas and the Gulf Coast hold more than half of
the resources favorable for CO2 enhanced oil recovery
By
J.J. Adams - 713-743-8960
The solution to increasing U.S. oil production could be buried beneath existing oil
fields, and a new University of Houston report suggests carbon dioxide may help retrieve
it.
The UH Energy white paper, "Revitalization of Mature Oil Fields: Opportunities and Challenges of CO2-EOR (/energy/_docs/_papers-reports/revitalization-of-mature-oil-fields.pdf)," was authored by Charles McConnell, executive director of UH's Center for Carbon
Management in Energy, and Zhiyuan Li, a UH petroleum engineeri...