The impact of CO2-enhanced oil recovery is huge

It turns out that carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery is more significant than even I thought, and I’ve been writing about if for 15 years. It accounts for a huge number of the top 100 conventional oil wells in Saskatchewan. Huge. And it proves out the significance and importance of CO2-EOR. Imagine what we could do across Saskatchewan with access to a lot more CO2? That’s going to have to be a column, methinks.

Also, oil is over US$90/barrel for the first time in quite a while. That’s going to be pretty important for Saskatchewan, as I was made aware today that potash prices have tanked. They are down by half year over year.

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Potash has only tanked wrt the stupid prices of the last 18 months or so. Still high enough for development (well, if the market was not getting threatened by the Ottawa Fascist Club that is), better for farmers as well (but still not cheap).

I agree that CO2 is useful is so many ways—yet those liberal buggars only want to see us starving and freezing.

BTW – I can’t append 77 to my handle anymore???

Turns out that as a solvent for hydrocarbons, liquid CO2 is amazing. Requires serious pressure, but you can extract -all- the hydrocarbons from a given sample.

Like a chicken. I’ve seen demos where they de-fat a chicken carcass without even cutting it open. All the fat comes out, the meat is not disturbed, and there is no residue of solvent because it is carbon dioxide.

I can understand why that would be amazing in an oil-bearing rock strata.

But, naturally the Greenies will flip out, because they think CO2=Bad therefore pumping CO2 into the ground is destroying nature. This is because Greenies are uneducated dolts who can’t understand organic chemistry or do basic mathematics. They went into “EcoStudies”” because they couldn’t manage the real studies. If any of those morons could count to ten without using their fingers there wouldn’t be a single windmill in Ontario.