CCS should be financed by enhanced oil recovery

In January's Petroleum Review John Constable, Renewable Energy Foundation, and Hugh Sharman, Incoteco, highlighted the startling weakness of the UK’s electricity system and the likelihood of either complete system breakdown by, or before, 2015. Here, Hugh Sharman discusses how using captured carbon dioxide to enhance oil recovery in mature fields can help keep our lights switched on and reduce our pending massive trade deficit caused by the declining hydrocarbon extraction in the North Sea.