One of the most common home heating systems for older houses in the Northeast and other cold-climate areas is a boiler. Boilers heat water, and then distribute hot steam or hot water to rooms through ...

In June 2011, a sinkhole of super-heated earth opened up and swallowed an oilfield worker in Kern County. That field had been producing heavy oil for decades utilizing a high-pressure production ...

Oil fired boilers are not very common in the Cincinnati market. The local gas company did a very good job of covering the major metropolitan market through the years. So I was surprised one day when I ...

Boilers are all around us. From home water heating to massive industrial applications, they are everywhere. This article covers boiler basics, including the basic types of packaged boilers and their ...

Steam is a marvelous way to transport large amounts of energy effectively and economically. That is why Steam has been the cornerstone of campus, district heating, and process systems for the past two ...

In industry, fossil fuel-fired boilers are commonly used to produce steam or hot water for space and process heating. However, traditional boilers may not be flexible enough to respond quickly to ...

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The world’s first commercial thermal enhanced oil recovery project that uses solar steam generators went on line Feb. 24 at Berry Petroleum Co.'s heavy oil 21Z lease in McKittrick, Calif. HOUSTON, Feb ...

Heavy oil is produced by either cold production (often with managed sand) and high-torque artificial lift, or by in-situ thermal/solvent methods (CSS, Steamflood, SAGD, ISC, solvent-assist) that lower ...

BrightSource Energy has supplied its solar thermal technology for use at Chevron Technology Ventures’ enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project in Coalinga, California. The 29MW thermal “Solar-to-Steam” ...

This article presents preliminary results of stimulation principles and offshore oilfield testing of cyclic steam and gas stimulation. Heavy oil production from Bohai oilfield, using such ...