| At first glance, using a greenhouse gas to produce more fossil fuel appears to offer a futile and counterproductive solution to today’s climate-change crisis. But that is exactly what the Department of Energy, the oil industry, and some environmental groups are advocating.
They are touting enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as a pathway to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions. EOR is a method used by the oil industry to produce more oil by injecting highly pressurized supercritical CO2 into partially depleted oil fields to recover oil left behind from previous drilling operations...............................................Full Article: Source
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