Enhanced Oil Recovery Guidelines

The Alberta Government is encouraging the use of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods to conserve the province's petroleum resource.

EOR recovery methods that use the injection of fluids such as hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, chemicals or other approved substances allow for the recovery of additional oil. To promote this additional recovery, the Crown has agreed to share in incremental costs that are over and above the cost of conventional recovery methods by forgoing royalties on a portion of incremental tertiary production.

Enchanced Oil Recovery guidelines  August 2005