waterflooding

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waterflooding

(ˈwɔːtəˌflʌdɪŋ)
n
(in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
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Thiele, "Thermal streamline simulation for hot waterflooding," SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, vol.
Occidental has increased production at Safah field in northern Oman through a combination of development wells, waterflooding and successful exploration.
Though no definite concrete viscosity ratio was advised due to different reservoirs condition and water cut, literatures [29, 30] showed low injection rates based water imbibition can be used to stabilize the waterflooding and improve heavy oil recovery.
Perkins Jr., "A laboratory investigation of the effect of the rate on recovery of oil by waterflooding," Journal of Petroleum Technology, vol.
Waterflooding is used as a cost-effective way to increase oil production, so the team developed experiments to model what impacts the flow of water injected into reservoirs.
After assuming operation of ISND in 1994, Occidental increased production through extensive horizontal drilling, waterflooding and multilateral production.
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