[Peakoil] Saudi seeks to tap heavy oil with pilot project

[Antony Barry]

Peakers

Comment: If the Saudi's are going into steam injection and heavy  
crude fore their future they must be starting to get worried. With  
10% of the world's production it should worry everyone.

Saudi seeks to tap heavy oil with pilot project
Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Dubai

A pilot project to tap extra heavy crude reserves by steam injection  
in a zone shared by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait could boost reserves in  
that area by around 20 per cent, experts said on Wednesday.

And if successful it would highlight the role foreign firms can play  
to open up new capacity in the Middle East, some added.

Last year, Chevron Corp began a steam injection pilot project in the  
Wafra field in the Neutral Zone to loosen sludge-like heavy oil that  
was previously deemed unrecoverable.


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