I was just going to comment that steam seemed far to old and simple to be "new" technology and you beat me to it. I guess modern news writers think steam is something "new".
I'm now waiting for them to start washing out oil wells with WD-40 or some such solvent. Water and oil do not mix but WD-40 is a great cutter.

That's what CO2 injection is about; supercritical CO2 is a pretty good non-polar solvent.