Why Enhanced Oil Recovery?

We pursue Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) because conventional production leaves most of the oil behind. After primary depletion, a reservoir commonly still contains 60–80% of its original oil in place. We specifically target oil fields that have 99-80% of its original oil in place or otherwise have economics that justify a quick investment payback.

The remaining oil is trapped by capillary forces, viscosity, and unfavorable mobility ratios. EOR methods — such as polymer flooding, CO₂ injection, water flooding or thermal processes — change the physics of the reservoir by improving sweep efficiency and/or reducing oil viscosity. In effect, EOR converts stranded hydrocarbons into producible reserves without needing a new discovery.

This is Greenflame’s specialty – we use chemistry, science and the most current technology to extract oil.

A second reason Greenflame implements EOR is economic optimization of existing assets. Exploration is expensive, risky, and time-consuming, while EOR leverages wells, facilities, roads, permits, and geological knowledge that already exist.

The capital efficiency can be compelling: incremental barrels from EOR often cost far less per barrel than finding and developing a new field. In mature basins, EOR effectively transforms declining fields into long-life producing assets, extending production profiles, stabilizing cash flow, and increasing reserve bookings — all of which materially improve company valuation and borrowing capacity.

Why Do We Pursue Enhanced Oil Recovery?

We pursue Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) because conventional production leaves most of the oil behind. After primary depletion, a reservoir commonly still contains 60–80% of its original oil in place. We specifically target oil fields that have 99-80% of its original oil in place or otherwise have economics that justify a quick investment payback.

The remaining oil is trapped by capillary forces, viscosity, and unfavorable mobility ratios. EOR methods — such as polymer flooding, CO₂ injection, water flooding or thermal processes — change the physics of the reservoir by improving sweep efficiency and/or reducing oil viscosity. In effect, EOR converts stranded hydrocarbons into producible reserves without needing a new discovery.

This is Greenflame’s specialty – we use chemistry, science and the most current technology to extract oil.

A second reason Greenflame implements EOR is economic optimization of existing assets. Exploration is expensive, risky, and time-consuming, while EOR leverages wells, facilities, roads, permits, and geological knowledge that already exist.

The capital efficiency can be compelling: incremental barrels from EOR often cost far less per barrel than finding and developing a new field. In mature basins, EOR effectively transforms declining fields into long-life producing assets, extending production profiles, stabilizing cash flow, and increasing reserve bookings — all of which materially improve company valuation and borrowing capacity.