In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:55:28
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Hi,
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lot of it comes out mixed with the natural gas and oil. Nowadays they
force oil out by pumping water into wells, and it takes a lot of
energy to separate the water from the oil.
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It shouldn't take any
http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=6827
The energy industry has found a new way to dispose of the greenhouse
gas carbon dioxide: pump it back into the underground oil reservoirs
from whence much of it came.
Not only does the project dispose of the nasty CO2, the
Yep.
There is a CO2 pipeline running from CO2 wells in northeastern
New Mexico to the Permian Basin oil wells in southeastern
NM and west Texas for enhanced oil extraction that has been in use for
twenty years or so.
Fred
hohlraum wrote,
only gets rid of it for so long though.
On 12/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=6827
The energy industry has found a new way to dispose of the greenhousegas carbon dioxide: pump it back into the underground oil
leaking pen wrote:
only gets rid of it for so long though.
Why? Does it gradually leak out of the underground reservoir?
- Jed
lesse... gas, stone. you tell me? its going to end up in any water source that runs through it, bubling out, bubbling through the small holes in the rock, and eventually be released enmasse as holes open up due to geological activity.
On 12/16/05, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
leaking
leaking pen wrote:
lesse... gas, stone. you tell me?
If we are talking about oil wells, then they typically also hold
natural gas which has been trapped for millions of years. The salt
dome or whatever it is that traps the liquid and gas is punctured by
the drill, and when they are
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