Oman Awards Deal for Mideast’s First Solar Oil-Recovery Site
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Petroleum Development Oman, a third owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, awarded a contract to GlassPoint Solar Inc. to build the Middle East’s first solar plant generating steam to boost output from aging oil deposits.
The 7-megawatt, four-acre site will deploy enhanced oil recovery, or EOR, technology, injecting steam into oilfields to loosen denser crude, according to an e-mailed statement today from Fremont, California-based GlassPoint. Previous such operations have burned natural gas to produce the steam.