Wednesday, June 29, 1988AFhe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local &M experts help with oil recovery Air Conditioning Specialists 111 Royal Bryan across S. College from Tom’s BBQ 846-5344 Auto Service This Ad is Good for $5 OPP any Service or Repair Not valid with any other coupon or discount expires 8-31-88 >arents art sponsibili 'ols. This; i tude hasj e studenj By Mike W. Thomas Reporter Oil experts f rom Texas A&rM and t isalsohalM ()t h cr universities are helping in- ndbiolon«P end f" t oil l ) l rodl ( KCI 1 s v ta P , the • , $ .7 trillion worth ol oil that they S in WCa®m ve no t been able to recover, of SteppinMDr. Mel Friedman, dean of geosci- ■ices, has said that two-thirds of the Blown oil reserves are left in the j. , Bound because the independent oil iorteacinm (lc | acers who recover the major “'Us. We [Brtion of the oil do not have the ve shork te Itnology or the research capabiii- B s they need. Most of the research everyiimt ilk about sc that won’t e challeng«| inf’ormatii "e is much a on new methods of oil recovery is being ■me by the big oil companies like xon and Mobil that have the re- urces to fund the research, he said. JThe information is not being dis- We SllOiiliBninated to the smaller companies ' lessofartBat make up the bulk of domestic about oura oil production, he said. -r ■ Fried man said the Department ol 31 intenu| r ,1, ■tergy is spending onlv J perc ent ol nil y- Bbudget on oil and gas recovery re- couJjrejBarch, with most of the rest of the ist for Ik* money being spent in support of the coal and lignite industry. The DOE assumes that oil pro ducers will do their own research and do not want the government to get involved, but most oil producers cannot afford to do this type of re search and the result is that a large proportion of known oil reserves is being left in the ground, he said. The Geoscience Institute for Oil and Gas Recovery Research, a con sortium of 15 universities from around the country including Texas A&M and the University of Texas, has estimated that 66 percent of known U.S. oil will be abandoned if more effort is not put into oil and gas recovery research. fhere are 250 billion barrels of oil or 46 percent of the known reserves that are considered immobile and trapped and could not be recovered in the forseeable future. Another 20 percent or 96 billion barrels of oil are considered mobile unswept oil and could be recovered with an in crease in research efforts. The Texas Bureau of Economic Geology has estimated that there are 35 billion barrels of mobile unswept oil in Texas. Friedman has calcu lated that if I percent of this oil is re covered it would result in a $6.3 bil lion boost to the Texas economy and $290 million in direct severence taxes. To advance research efforts the DOE formed the consortium to re search new methods of oil recovery and make the information available to the general public. The consortium will be presenting its first report reflecting the efforts of over 500 experts in the oil indus try to the DOE in September. Fried man said the report will advise the DOE to set up numerous requests for proposals or RFPs that will be awarded to qualified universities. Each REP will target a specific area of research and funding will be on a dollar by dollar matching basis. The oil industry will be encouraged to support the RFPs and help the universities pay the matching funds. Friedman is confident that Texas A&M will receive its share of RFPs. “The research will take time to bear fruit,” said Friedman, “but with a little investment into oil recovery research we could reap big divi dends in the near future.” Friedman said it is conceivable that the U.S. could be completely en ergy self-sufficient. 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