Oil drilling rig in Central Valley, California
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Fossil fuel companies are experimenting with the use of carbon dioxide captured from the air with oil extraction to guide a new era of “net zero oil” that is friendly to the earth, but researchers say the idea is fantasy .
In fortified oil recovery (EOR), it is extracted by injecting CO2 underground to squeeze out remaining oil from a reservoir that is depleted with crude oil. Net-zero oil is generated when EOR and CO2 are sucked out by direct air capture (DAC) plants. Some oil companies claimThe process they want…
Source: www.newscientist.com
