Brittany Sturdivant
October 15, 2008
9:24pm
In Cairn India, the largest oil field discovered a saline water reservoir near the oil field. The saline water reservoir will help pump crude oil to the ground level and will hopefully enhance oil production. The oil from the Cairn oil field in India has a high wax content which makes it very difficult for the oil to get sucked up out of the oil field. The saline water will need to be heated above 40 degrees Celsius and then it can be pumped into the oil field. 1.1 barrels of saline water has to be injected into each barrel of oil so that the process will work. The saline water will help enhance oil production that will hopefully begin in the second half of 2009. I think the oil field in India is doing a great thing by finding ways to increase the oil production in their country. By 2012, the company is expected to produce oil at a rate of 175,000 barrels a day which will benefit the country extremely. Production will not be large for a while because when they first start to use the water, the water will skim over the oil layer. After everything is mixed into the water the water will flush out as much oil as possible. This technique sounds like a good idea, but I’m still worrying how this will turn out for the country. I find it hard to see how this process of using water to suck out the oil will work, but it sounds like a great plan if it can happen.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=337516
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