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Show Top bottle' principle to boost energy The same process that makes a pop bottle fizz may soon help a major oil company boost production pro-duction from some of its southwestern south-western United States oil fields. Amoco Production Company proposes to inject carbon dioxide di-oxide into oil fields straddling the Texas-New Mexico border. "This is a pioneering effort that will require huge initial investment in-vestment with extremely high operating costs over the 40 to 50 years of the project's life," said George Galloway, president of Amoco Production. "While the ' growing emphasis on synthetic fuels and alternative energy sources is long overdue, projects such as this one illustrate that oil is stiU the most practical an swer to our near-term enerev problems." H Studies by Amoco and other companies show that carbon di oxide acts as a solvent that over comes the forces that trap oil in rock pores. This simple gas raay help recover a significant share of the approximately 60 per cent of oil still beyond the reach of conventional production techniques, tech-niques, Galloway said. Amoco is taking steps to develop de-velop a source of carbon dioxide I in northeast New Mexico. As many as 1,000 wells could be required to develop the gas, and a 300-mile pipeline would have to be constructed to transport gas to the Permian Basin. Amoco 1 Production Company is the U.S. exploration and production sub-sidiary sub-sidiary of Standard Oil Com- pany (Indiana). ' ' i |