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Vol. 11, No. 23 Week of June 04, 2006
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

BP to try new waterflood for viscous

Drawing hot, clean water from deep underground and injecting it into the viscous oil reservoir should increase production rates

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

As part of its ongoing efforts to develop the huge viscous oil deposits under Alaska’s North Slope, BP Exploration (Alaska) is trying a novel technique that involves extracting hot water from an underground rock formation and then injecting that water into the viscous oil reservoir. Samson Ning, a s....

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