TRAPPED OIL
March 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
WITH estimates that nearly two out of every three barrels of oil discovered remain trapped underground after conventional recovery, three American universities have been awarded government-sponsored left-over oil recovery projects worth US$4
million (GB Pounds 2.8 million) in grants. Louisiana State University will develop a new gas injection process; Oklahoma University is working with microbial organisms that sweep oil from a reservoir; and University of Houston is experimenting with a soap-like chemical to free oil trapped in carbonate ...
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