horizontal wells, Tag

There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches that limit might be less than 25% of the...

Nick has pointed out that the chart I used last time, in writing of the production in the deep waters of the Gulf is out of date. North Dakota is heading for second place behind Texas, having passed Oklahoma, and has the...

This post is one of my series of tech talks, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing a little more on the procedures that are being used to recover...

This is part of the series of tech talk posts on how to get fossil fuels out of the ground that appear here most Sundays. In this post, I talk about several innovations in drilling, including down-hole motors. Among other...

In August 2007, a post titled Extracting Heavy Oil: Using Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI) introduced readers of The Oil Drum to a technology for producing an upgraded extra-heavy oil from Alberta Tar Sands without the environmentally...