How Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Works in Oil Extraction

Discover how steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) revolutionizes heavy oil extraction by making deep oil reserves accessible and economically viable.
Business Wire

ExxonMobil Licenses Oil Sands Steam Injection Technology to Baker Hughes

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first license for its patented steam injection system and production method to Baker Hughes to improve the ...
Oil

Steam distillation effects improve thin, light-oil reservoir recoveries

A study has shown that steamflooding distillation effects would improve crude recovery from thin reservoirs with less viscous crude. Steam distillation means that steam injection will cause some ...
Rigzone

PDO Signs Contracts for Qarm Alam Steam Project

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

Chevron uses steam to extract Saudi crude

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Saudi Arabia and Chevron Corp. have successfully extracted previously unreachable Saudi crude by injecting steam into oil fields to loosen sludgelike deposits, Chevron ...
Flightglobal

P&W upbeat on potential for hydrogen power as initial HySIITE testing wraps up

Pratt & Whitney has growing confidence over the potential for a revolutionary hydrogen-combustion, steam-injection turbine engine in the 2050s, after component-level testing of the “hardest parts” of ...
Oil

Albania: Patos-Marinza steam pilot injection nears

Patos-Marinza heavy oil field in Albania is producing 13,400 b/d of oil, and steam injection is to start in the last quarter of 2011 at a pilot thermal program in the southwest part of the field.