CO₂ Flooding:  As the founding principal in the Annual CO₂ Flooding Conference (http://www.spe-pb.org /), Melzer has found himself immersed in the specific technologies necessary for successful CO₂ flooding.  The willingness of the large oil companies to share their previously tightly-held CO₂ technology is best evidenced by the eleven CO₂ flooding shortcourses that Mr. Melzer has directed (http://www.utpb.org/ceed/co2/shortcourses.html ).  With the Permian Basin as a backyard, the opportunities to observe and document the best practices utilized in the 50+ active CO₂ floods has been invaluable.  And now, with the success of the CO₂ Flooding Conference, the backyard has expanded to all of North America and even worldwide as the best minds in all of CO₂ flooding have come to participate each year in the Conference.  The coming and potentially explosive growth in CO₂ flooding due to oil prices and CO₂ sequestration will make these best practices even more critical.  Expansion and proliferation of adequate sources of CO₂ is the current challenge. 

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