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Is it possible to just pump a slurry of corn and various pulp products into dead oil wells?


Nope. You need to understand that an oil reservoir is 100% rock, but a rock that is porous on the microlevel. Stuff that gets pumped down needs to be a proper fluid, not just a slurry, or it will just clog the pores in half an hour.


Pretty much, yeah. Vaulted Deep (https://vaulteddeep.com/) is doing a version of this.




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