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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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the steam required, represented by barrels of water, to produce one barrel of oil) from a peak of almost 8.5 for the first quarter of 2011, according to data from the California Department of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). Using thermal recovery processes in heavy oil reservoirs depends largely on.

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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“NEB and GNWT study finds 200 billion barrels of oil in the Sahtu,” gushed CBC News , referring to a region of the sprawling territory that cuts across three provinces and touches the Arctic Ocean. Indeed that is the question on the minds of oil investors as they digest the latest numbers of potential barrels of oil under the Arctic tundra.

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