
HISTORY
Oil. It’s a finite resource. Each day, the growing
economies of the United States, China, India and elsewhere create
ever-greater demand. The United States alone consumes more than 20 million
barrels per day. Obviously, as demand increases, supply decreases and the
market price goes up. This cause-and-effect scenario leads to tremendous
profitability for companies that find cost-effective ways to maximize oil
recovery.
Traditionally, oil producers always have “picked the low-hanging fruit,”
recovering only the easily extracted oil from reservoirs and leaving behind
the rest.
Breaking from this status quo, we at Wavefront developed our cost-effective
Powerwave process. Since our first application in 1998, we have consistently
delivered successful results for better oil well stimulation and secondary
oil recovery. In some examples, the technology has increased the production
of individual wells by greater than 1,000 percent. In oil recovery
revitalization, it has increased production by 30 percent or greater.
Powerwave, when adopted market-wide, could increase supply by up to billions
of barrels.
And keep in mind that this is production from existing fields. That means
revitalized revenue streams without costly and potentially fruitless new
exploration. In fact, because Wavefront maximizes secondary recovery, fewer
wells may produce the same amount of oil or more.
