Consortium to pump more oil

SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) _ An organization that includes two Oklahoma universities is announcing plans to try to get more oil from hard-to-reach places. <br/><br/>The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for

Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 12:58 pm

By: News On 6

SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) _ An organization that includes two Oklahoma universities is announcing plans to try to get more oil from hard-to-reach places.

The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America says it plans to get more oil from such spots as the deep ocean and the edge of drying-out oil fields.

The group includes the University of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa plus Oklahoma City-based Kerr-McGee and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.

It includes 84 universities, laboratories, companies and associations working in a 10-year, $50-million-a-year effort to find ways to get out more oil.

The consortium will take proposals from groups nationwide to develop technologies to get at the oil and gas in an effort officials hope will ultimately lead to lower the prices at the gas pump.