Chevron’s Solar-Powered Oil Extraction Begins in California
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Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, began extracting crude from a southern California field using steam produced by a 29-megawatt solar-thermal power plant.
BrightSource Energy Inc.’s system uses mirrors to focus sunlight on a boiler at Chevron’s Coalinga, California, enhanced oil recovery project, the solar company said in a statement after extraction began today.