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 ...

Researchers run numerical simulations and field tests using cyclic steam stimulation, steam drive, and steam-assisted gravity drainage at different types of heavy oil reservoirs in China's Bohai field ...

BAKERSFIELD — On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a “chimney” — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field ...