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To: crusty old prospector
Capillary pressure. It ain’t gonna budge.

build a better capillary and the world will beat a path to your door.

8 posted on 05/11/2009 1:40:40 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Engineers have been trying for decades to figure out ways to extract the remaining reserves (usually 30-70% of the original oil-in-place.) Once the reservoir energy is gone, the oil becomes immobile. Pumping salt water and the gas-cap back into the reservoir gets some more oil out and CO2 and polymer floods get even more but it is expensive.


9 posted on 05/11/2009 2:37:55 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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