enhanced oil recovery

British

noun

any of several techniques that make it possible to recover more oil than can be obtained by natural pressure, such as the injection of fluid or gases into an oilfield to force more oil to the surface

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Enhanced oil recovery is “beneficial for helping to build out the infrastructure backroom” for carbon capture, he said, and it “can create a much less carbon-intensive barrel of oil, prevent new drilling and prevent larger-scale environmental disruption from all the new drilling and exploration.”

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Most U.S. carbon-capture projects now in operation are connected to enhanced oil recovery, rather than simply underground storage of CO2.

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Hollub told analysts on an earnings call in February 2025 that enhanced oil recovery is “the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels” to U.S. oil reserves.

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Before the OBBBA, only storage projects got credits at those levels, while “enhanced oil recovery” was at lower levels of $60 per ton for point-source capture and $130 per ton for direct-air capture, known as DAC.

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Experts say most of the CO2 that’s used in what’s called “enhanced oil recovery,” in which it is injected into reservoirs, ends up staying underground.

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