Polymer gels are increasingly being integrated into enhanced oil recovery (EOR) strategies to address the challenges posed by heterogeneity in mature reservoirs. Designed as cross‐linked polymer ...

Most Wyoming oil fields are aging and declining in production, so increasing production through enhanced oil recovery methods can have an important positive effect of Wyoming’s total oil production, ...

CASPER — The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee on Monday advanced a stimulus bill that could boost the state’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a production ...

A new method for enhanced oil recovery proposed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin is showing promising results in modeling studies—producing more oil, storing more carbon, and doing ...

Three earthquakes that struck west Texas on Monday – including a magnitude 4.9 temblor – are all linked to local oil production. Three quakes were recorded Monday night in Scurry County, Texas. The ...

SAN ANTONIO — June 23, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have evaluated a promising approach to improve long-term carbon storage in depleted ...

In what may prove to be critical in revisiting older, depleted fields, Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has proposed establishing an enhanced oil recovery and improved oil recovery ...

aims to eliminate various tax benefits currently provided to oil and gas companies under the Internal Revenue Code. The bill includes several key provisions designed to gradually repeal these ...

Although new energy has been widely used in our lives, oil is still one of the main energy sources in the world. After the application of traditional oil recovery methods, there are still a large ...

A simple figure from the study demonstrating the process of enhanced oil recovery with slugs of a formate solution and carbon dioxide. The formate solution is an alternative carbon carrier proposed by ...