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v: to cease producing oil and gas from a well when it becomes unprofitable or to cease further work on a newly drilled well when it proves not to contain profitable quantities of oil or gas. Several steps are involved: part of the casing may be removed and salvaged;one or more cement plugs are placed in the borehole to prevent migration of fluids between the different formations penetrated by the borehole;and the well is abandoned. In most oil-producing states, it is necessary to secure permission from official agencies before a well may be abandoned.

to cease efforts to produce or inject fluids in a wells and to plug the well sufficiently to protect the environment and the ability to redrill and develop other reserves at a later date.

Costs associated with the abandonment of facilities or services, including costs for the removal of facilities and restoration of the land.

the wash oil used to remove heavier hydrocarbons from the gas stream.

n: 1. in general, a substance added in small amounts to a larger amount of another substance to change some characteristic of the latter. In the oil industry, additives are used in lubricating oil, fuel, drilling mud, and cement. 2. in cementing, a substance added to cement to change its characteristics to satisfy specific conditions in die well. A cement additive may work as an accelerator, retarder, dispersant, or other reactant.

n: The agent put into the drilling fluid in order to change some performances of the drilling fluid or slurry.

a compound incorporated into a gas, liquid, or solid system to alter the properties for a particular purpose.

n pi: penalties or fines handed down by administrative agencies, such as the EPA.

n: a body of air that remains for an extended period of time over a large land or sea area with uniform heating and cooling properties. The air mass will acquire characteristics (such as temperature and moisture content) of the underlying region.

n: a substance having marked basic (alkaline) properties, such as a hydroxide of an alkali metal. See base.

n: Any compound having pH properties higher than the neutral state.

a strongly basic solution.

n: a method of improved recovery in which alkaline chemicals such as sodium hydroxide are injected during a water flood or combined with polymer flooding. The chemicals react with the natural acid present in certain crude oils to form surfactants within the reservoir. The surfactants enable the water to move additional quantities of oil from the depleted reservoir. Compare chemical flooding, polymer flooding, water flooding.

a method of allocating volumes to affected parties when an imbalance occurs.

n: a substance with metallic properties that comprises two or more elements in solid solution. See ferrous alloy, nonferrous alloy.