Improving Oil Extraction With New Mapping Technology
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 00:14
in Earth & Climate
Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped out for storage or transport. Researchers have developed technology that can generate such a map, which has the potential to significantly increase the amount of oil extracted from reservoirs.