Chevron Uses Steamflooding to Produce More Oil

Chevron Human Energy Stories: http://www.chevron.com/stories/energy.story/allstories/steamflooding/ - After more than a century of oil production, the Kern River Field in California is still pumping oil, thanks to Chevron and its steamflooding energy solution. We put high-pressure steam into reservoirs to reduce the oil's viscosity and then pump it out of the ground.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Steamflooding
• energy efficiency
• energy solutions
• oil production
• producing oil
• California oil
• steam energy
• Bakersfield

[Shull23]

This is awesome. I wish this technology would come to Illinois and help out our production in Crawford county.

[Chevron]

@Shull23 Thanks for your feedback - we appreciate hearing it!

[bmtimv]

With oil at close to 90$ a barrel it is now economically viable to extract every last drop out of the old fields.

[PETROLEONLINE]

After more than a century of production, the Kern River Field in California is still pumping oil, thanks to steamflooding. We put high-pressure steam into reservoirs to reduce the oil's viscosity and then pump it out

___That's good ...But my comment is : beyond the action of "steamflooding" ,the direct point from the earth surface towards down the oil trap, is necessary ,avoiding the isolant rock layers ....that's my great speciality,that means competence beyond human force.