A new method for enhanced oil recovery proposed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin is showing promising ...

A new method, developed in the United States, could help improve oil output from the tightly packed formations of shale rock.

The University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has published an updated report on Wyoming’s carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery potential, prospective amenable oil and gas fields, ...

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Importantly, we know it works because EOR is already used in conventional oil fields for increasing recovery rates. For ...

Rash of earthquakes blamed on oil production, including a magnitude 4.9 in Texas Until Monday’s earthquake, the largest earthquake known to have been induced by enhanced oil recovery was a ...

The federal government tends to support permanent carbon storage more than CO2 enhanced oil recovery projects, which bring in more revenue for Wyoming. The state aims to close that gap.

A 10-year employee of the University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has been appointed as director of the institute, effective May 1. Lon Whitman brings a wealth of experience to ...

In a process known as enhanced oil recovery, operators inject pressurized carbon dioxide into reservoirs to remove the remaining oil that traditional drilling processes did not extract.