Anadarko has extensive experience applying improved recovery techniques to diverse oil projects. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR), is used to increase the amount of oil that can be produced from mature reservoirs after primary recovery methods have run their course. The launch of our carbon dioxide (CO2) flood projects in the Salt Creek and Monell fields in Wyoming helped turn EOR into a focus area for the company.
Anadarko’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations in the Salt Creek field of Wyoming utilize CO2 to stimulate oil production from a 100-year-old field. The CO2 injected into the ground enhances domestic oil production and prevents a greenhouse gas from being emitted into the atmosphere. As a benefit of our EOR operations, the Salt Creek field will be one of the largest CO2 oil recovery and geological-sequestration projects of its kind in the world. The project currently sequesters enough CO2 each day to offset the equivalent emissions of more than half a million cars.
Salt Creek Field Facts
- Discovered in the early 20th Century
- 1.7 BBOE OOIP
- Acquired 2002
- Completed 5 of 16 development phases
- Inject 300 MMcf/d CO2: 175 MMcf/d recycled, 125 MMcf/d purchased