"""keep the pressure up in the reservoirs so they can produce more oil"""  ?????????

That was true before the 1950's.

The Petroleum Theologists in AOGCC are reading from ancient texts written on Texas goat hides.

HYDROCARBON MANAGEMENT REQUIRES ADULT SUPERVISION

CARBON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

OXYGEN is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

SILICON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

BORON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

NITROGEN is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

goog: silane fuel

If Alaska's hydrocarbons was treated like a modern garbage dump it would be a huge improvement over how BigOil is managing our state resources as "producers".

Waste Management Inc. is America's largest garbage company, and they use plasma gasifiers to immolate the trash to produce a big profit from SYNGAS. The syngas is made into LNG for fleet fuels for garbage trucks, and the surplus gas is sold off to the power-grid.

BigOil is upsidedown in the tarsands of Alberta,
wasting mega$$$ separating oil from sand.