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Seawater gives new life to oil wells in Gulf

Published Oct 30, 2012 at 8:00 am (Updated Oct 30, 2012)

(From The Houston Chronicle) TAHITI PLATFORM, Gulf of Mexico – Deep-water drillers are pushing the boundaries of modern technology to help revive the Gulf of Mexico as one of the world's most prolific oil producers.

In offshore frontiers hit by the 2010 oil spill and drilling moratorium, pioneers are adapting water injection, an old technique for boosting oil recovery, to challenging new environments in the deepest drilling regions of the Gulf. By flushing massive loads of high-pressure water through miles of ocean and earth, they're stimulating the deepest reservoirs and bringing up more oil.

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