In June 2011, a sinkhole of super-heated earth opened up and swallowed an oilfield worker in Kern County. That field had been producing heavy oil for decades utilizing a high-pressure production ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday placed a moratorium on new permits for potentially dangerous oil drilling techniques, which officials said are linked to illegal spills across the Central ...

This article presents preliminary results of stimulation principles and offshore oilfield testing of cyclic steam and gas stimulation. Heavy oil production from Bohai oilfield, using such ...

Designed for highly viscous (heavy) oil requiring thermal stimulation, V-Cone steam-injection flow meter supports enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies that produce heavy oil from demanding ...

Chevron's subsidiary has achieved first steam injection at its Large Scale Pilot steamflood project at the Wafra Field, an Eocene heavy-oil carbonate reservoir in the onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone.

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) earlier this week signed two major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for its Qarm Alam steam-injection project. Petroleum Development Oman (PDO ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has ...