Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a method used to extract oil beyond primary and secondary techniques. Explore different EOR ...

In 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom halted new permits for fracking, saying that the state “needs to move beyond oil” and leave the practice in the past. Now, three years later, a formal plan to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday placed a moratorium on new permits for potentially dangerous oil drilling techniques, which officials said are linked to illegal spills across the Central ...

A study has shown that steamflooding distillation effects would improve crude recovery from thin reservoirs with less viscous crude. Steam distillation means that steam injection will cause some ...

In late March, PetroRock LLC withdrew its application to drill 231 new wells — 225 for oil production and the rest for steam injection — on a 710-acre Cat Canyon site. Then in May, Aera Energy ended ...

International Petroleum Corporation (IPC) has launched the first steam injection for phase one of its fully owned Blackrod oil sands project in Alberta, Canada. The Canada-based company expects oil ...

International Petroleum Corporation (IPC or the Corporation) (TSX, Nasdaq Stockholm: IPCO) is pleased to provide an update on the Blackrod Phase 1 development in Canada. Following substantial progress ...

State regulators have placed dozens of new oil drilling permits on hold over the last two months after announcing a moratorium on applications for an extraction method tied to a series of large, ...

State employees are worried higher-ups are helping oil companies take shortcuts DOGGR, the regulatory agency, says a review 'identified some issues' DOGGR's programs are funded by a fee on all oil ...

A moratorium on drilling of steam injection oil wells near a major source of groundwater in Ventura County could be extended Tuesday for up to one more year. Initially approved in April for 45 days by ...

Flue gas assisted steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a frontier technology to enhance oil recovery for heavy oil reservoirs. The carbon dioxide generated from the thermal recovery of heavy oil ...