In 1996, Zubrin founded and is president of Pioneer Energy, a Research and Development firm Colorado. The company's focus is to develop mobile Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) systems that can enable CO2-based EOR for both small and large oil producers in the United States. The company has also developed a number of new processes for manufacturing synthetic fuels.
The US is flaring a lot of natural gas from the oil and gas fracking in North Dakota and other states. To capture the natural gas would involve creating pipelines to the wells. However, there are thousands of small horizontal wells being added every year. Zubrin system is mobile vehicles which have all of the conversion equipment that converts the natural gas to CO2 and hydrogen. The CO2 can be used to enhance the oil recovery and hydrogen can power equipment.
They are going to a system that can produce 500,000 cubic feet of CO2 per day and 1.2 megawatts of power. They can reduce by 90% the amount of CO2 and gas that is released into the air during flaring.
One of the things for Mars that Zubrin is known for is devising insitu systems for producing fuel out of the atmosphere of Mars. Here Zubrin has determined gear to produce desirable things from what would be wasted and polluting flared natural gas.
These trailer mounted CO2 will be able to boost oil recovery from about 30% of in place oil to 50-60% in many cases.
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The US is flaring a lot of natural gas from the oil and gas fracking in North Dakota and other states. To capture the natural gas would involve creating pipelines to the wells. However, there are thousands of small horizontal wells being added every year. Zubrin system is mobile vehicles which have all of the conversion equipment that converts the natural gas to CO2 and hydrogen. The CO2 can be used to enhance the oil recovery and hydrogen can power equipment.
They are going to a system that can produce 500,000 cubic feet of CO2 per day and 1.2 megawatts of power. They can reduce by 90% the amount of CO2 and gas that is released into the air during flaring.
One of the things for Mars that Zubrin is known for is devising insitu systems for producing fuel out of the atmosphere of Mars. Here Zubrin has determined gear to produce desirable things from what would be wasted and polluting flared natural gas.
These trailer mounted CO2 will be able to boost oil recovery from about 30% of in place oil to 50-60% in many cases.
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