$95 million increases oil, reduces C[O.sub.2].Midale, in southeast Saskatchewan will soon be home to a world-scale, enhanced oil recovery Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of oil that can be extracted from an oil field. Using EOR, 30-60 %, or more, of the reservoir's original oil can be extracted [1] compared with 20-40% [2] operation that increases oil production while reducing greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas emissions that would otherwise enter the environment. Apache Canada Ltd. is investing $95 million over the next five years to recover additional oil from its Midale Unit oilfield by injecting and trapping trapping, most broadly, the use of mechanical or deceptive devices to capture, kill, or injure animals. It may be applied to the practice of using birdlime to capture birds, lobster pots to trap lobsters, and seines to catch fish. carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. (C[O.sub.2]) deep inside the Earth. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is Saskatchewan's second full-scale C[O.sub.2] enhanced oil recovery project. The province encouraged Apache's investment by offering special enhanced oil recovery royalty and production tax provisions. Apache expects to recover an additional 45-46 million barrels of oil from the Midale Unit, increasing its production by approximately 50 per cent. Apache estimates it will extend the life span of the Midale Unit by about 25 years, during which time up to 8.75 million tonnes of C[O.sub.2] will be sequestered se·ques·ter v. se·ques·tered, se·ques·ter·ing, se·ques·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to withdraw into seclusion. 2. To remove or set apart; segregate. See Synonyms at isolate. 3. underground rather than being released into the atmosphere. |
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