Wyoming Geological Association: 1982 Luncheon Meetings Casper, Wyoming: Abstracts of Papers

Since current oil recovery technology only produces 30-40% of original oil in place, much is left in the ground (300 billion barrels) as “unrecoverable”. One potential method of additional extraction, possibly a fourth order beyond tertiary, is by mining to gain access to a reservoir and draining by gravity energy. This talk addresses the technical requirements, the cross fertilization of technology, some of the costs, and expected problems.