[Dan Evans]

For decades, oil companies have boosted production by raising the pressure in depleted fields with CO2 injections.

Only a small percentage of the CO2 created in burning fuel is needed to re-pressurize wells. It would require a terrific waste of energy and money for infrastructure to compress all the CO2 created at power plants and pipe it back to the oil wells or into the sea.

This is nothing but appeasement of the global warming crowd and it will not work. As we see here, they will find plenty of bogus objections to this bypass of their cash cow (carbon trading credits).

[Mark was here]

Only a small percentage of the CO2 created in burning fuel is needed to re-pressurize wells. It would require a terrific waste of energy and money for infrastructure to compress all the CO2 created at power plants and pipe it back to the oil wells or into the sea.

I would suggest a nuclear power plant be built to power the compressors to pump the CO2 back in the ground.

[thackney]

The process is more than re-pressurizing the field. And much of the world could benefit from enhanced oil recovery of this process if enough CO2 were available nearby.

Reports See Another 89-430 Billion Barrels of Oil Through Carbon Dioxide Injection, Other Advances
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/news/techlines/2006/06015-Oil_Recovery_Assessments_Released.html