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has installed low-salinity water During LoSal EOR’s 2008-2009 offshore for EOR,” Nnaemeka ? eld trials at Endicott ? eld in

Ezekwe, BP’s LoSal EOR deploy- Alaska, oil and water – those two ment manager said. famously incompatible liquids - met

BP estimates that an additional with good results: increased oil pro-

EyebrowProduction 42MMbo will be recovered from duction similar to that found during the UK Continental Shelf’s larg-

LoSal EOR’s lab testing. est undeveloped hydrocarbon “Low-salinity water was injected resource by using LoSal EOR, part in one well, and the incremental of the company’s suite of Designer oil production observed in another.

Water technologies.

Endicott proved up the laboratory

The supermajor was recently trials at full scale,” BP said. honored for Clair Ridge LoSal EOR

From Clair to Clair Ridge at Houston’s Offshore Technology

Conference in May with its second At the time of its 1977 discovery

Distinguished Achievement award through to its 2005 production

BP Chief Operating O