Cutting Oil Field Electricity Use.

Energy Optimization News, May, 2003

The California Energy Commission has signed a contract with the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) to find ways of cutting electric power consumption while oil is extracted from California's oil wells. PTTC West Coast director Iraj Ershaghi will direct the demonstration project. He heads the Petroleum Engineering Program of the University of Southern California.

The project will analyze the geology of California's oil fields and demonstrate suitable technical solutions to reduce the water to oil ratio by one half during the extraction process. In California's oil fields, eight barrels of water have to be pumped from the ground to get a barrel of oil. When implemented in 2,100 targeted wells whose geology allows cost-effective water shut-off...

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