RE: A question about Petrostar and WavefrontI have taken this excerpt from Wavefronts news release.
Wavefront President and CEO Brett Davidson stated, “ARG and ARG Resources are forward thinking companies working to maximize oil production from their operations and we are very pleased to have entered into this agreement with them. It is becoming increasingly difficult for oil companies to optimally produce mature assets hence the growing need for technology to aid in the extraction of proven oil reserves that are stranded in reservoirs. Powerwave is a significant key to unlocking those proven oil reserves. Success in Kane and the possibility of jointly marketing Powerwave with ARG and ARG Resources in an area as historically important as the Pennsylvania Crude Oil Region represents a sizable opportunity for Wavefront.”
Mr. Davidson further commented, “Physical limitations on water injection directly affect oil recovery rates and ultimate recoverable volumes. If water injection rates can be increased and greater uniformity of that water is achieved in the reservoir it should transpire into both improved oil rates and increased ultimate oil recovery. Given the importance of water injection rates on oil recovery it is noteworthy that the success of the Dragonfly tool systems for improving water injectivity under difficult flow conditions has not only been a focal point of the Wavefront/ARG Resources agreement but is also the basis for various discussions on the application of Powerwave with a number of oil producers across North America. Wavefront endeavors to report on those activities in the near future.”
I am not totally clear on what they are trying to achieve but it appears to me that is a water injection method, wereas Petrostar is a steam forming system.
The main advantage od steam of course is that when water converts to steam it expands 1800 time in volume. That would create a considerable amount of pressure in an enclosed space.