A heart pulses blood through arteries and veins, with the nature of the pulse very dependent on the size of the animal. For example a humming birds heart beats 60 times per second with a very tiny amplitude whereas a blue whales heart beats 3 to 5 times a minute and is about the size of a Volkswagen beetle. It is the same pressure pulsing action that has been applied to energy and environmental applications such as: ·Improved oil recovery by increasing sweep efficiency during production ·Workovers to enhance production from wells ·Mobilizing and enhancing recovery of LNAPL's and DNAPL's ·Placement of chemicals such as surfactants and oxidants ·Stabilization of permeability channeling or viscous fingering ·Increasing the basic flow rate so as to shorten any clean-up activity ·Unplugging, or rehabilitation of water wells through the mechanical perturbation effects of deepwave technology ·Deep well disposal of liquid dominated slurries such as feel lot wastes

The permeabilities that are encountered in these energy and environmental jobs range from mili-darcies to hundreds of darcies. Requiring pulsers that vary by many orders of magnitude in frequency and amplitude. An important point to be made is that deepwave technology is not a stand-alone technology but rather an enabling technology. It yields improved reservoir conformance and injectivity.