OGPSS - The potential for Saudi EOR

Without getting into the discussion of the other aspects of the site, it was interesting to read a post dealing with future oil production o...

OGPSS - conditions and treatments in North Ghawar

Recent OGPSS talks have focused on the increased use of novel technology in Saudi Arabia, as a means of recovering stranded oil, left during...

OGPSS - Chemical floods to enhance oil recovery

Before returning to look at the larger oilfields in the United States, I thought to describe ways of increasing the oil produced from the st...

Carbon Sequestration sites and their success

There are a number of questions on the ease with which carbon dioxide can be sequestered underground, and I alluded to some of them in yeste...

Produced Water, GOSP's and Saudi Arabia

To the uninitiated the thought of a gas or oil well is one where a pipe goes down into the ground, and out of it flows either a steady strea...

2009 Energy Conference - Meeting the growing demand for liquids

The third session of the conference dealt with either electrical power generation or transportation fluids. In reality that meant, for the s...