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 ...

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 ...

Steam injection is effective for increasing recovery from subsurface heavy crude or bitumen accumulations. Some projects do produce these resources with cold production, but recovery expectations are ...

Re: Your Nov. 4 story, “Oil moratorium could run for another year”: One thing the article on steam injection leaves out, amongst the implication of just spraying steam into surface rock or the ground, ...

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) earlier this week signed two major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for its Qarm Alam steam-injection project. Petroleum Development Oman (PDO ...