In June 2011, a sinkhole of super-heated earth opened up and swallowed an oilfield worker in Kern County. That field had been producing heavy oil for decades utilizing a high-pressure production ...

NEW YORK — Neptronic’s SKD Direct Steam Injection Humidifier is designed for applications where clean, low-pressure steam is available, such as hospitals, museums, laboratories, universities, and ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...

BAKERSFIELD — On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a “chimney” — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field ...

This article presents preliminary results of stimulation principles and offshore oilfield testing of cyclic steam and gas stimulation. Heavy oil production from Bohai oilfield, using such ...

Cyclic steam injection is a common method of oil extraction in California in which steam is injected at high pressure into a heavy-oil formation. The process is largely unregulated and has been blamed ...

Designed for highly viscous (heavy) oil requiring thermal stimulation, V-Cone steam-injection flow meter supports enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies that produce heavy oil from demanding ...

Chevron's subsidiary has achieved first steam injection at its Large Scale Pilot steamflood project at the Wafra Field, an Eocene heavy-oil carbonate reservoir in the onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone.

TORONTO - International Petroleum Corporation (TSX, Nasdaq Stockholm:IPCO) has commenced steam injection at its Blackrod Phase 1 development project in Canada, according to a company press release ...