§13411 Enhanced Oil Recovery

Summary

The Secretary must run a 5-year program to find and test better ways to get more oil from U.S. fields. The program has ten goals, including better study of reservoirs, better analysis and field checks, testing and demonstrating advanced recovery methods in high-priority fields (picked mainly for oil potential and risk of abandonment), sharing proven methods with producers and operators (including low-producing "stripper" wells), making recovery cheaper and more efficient, creating new recovery methods, studying how reservoir properties affect recovery, improving environmental practices and databases, and lowering lift costs on stripper wells with small renewable tech like small wind turbines. Within 180 days after October 24, 1992, the Secretary must send Congress a plan to speed field testing of these technologies. Within 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Secretary must ask for proposals to do the work. The Secretary must consult industry, colleges, federal agencies and labs, professional groups, and the Advisory Board, and consider industry technical data. Congress authorized $57,250,000 for fiscal year 1993 and $70,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 for the program, including advanced extraction and process technology.