Shell enhances enhanced recovery

摘要

With 70% of global oil production coming from fields past their prime, Shell takes a long-term, "life-of-field" approach to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to squeeze the most hydrocarbons it can from the assets it manages. Shell pioneered two key techniques - steam and CO{sub}2 injection - in the 1960s and still profitably employs them today in the very fields where they were developed.