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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.

n: see alkaline (caustic) flooding, micellarpolymer flQoding.

one of several methods involving injecting a chemical into a formation to improve the production of hydrocarbon. May be from an injection well to a production well or injection into a producer with a soak period before recovery.

n: (EOR) 1. the introduction of artificial drive and displacement mechanisms into a reservoir to produce a portion of the oil unrecoverable by primary recovery methods. To restore formation pressure and fluid flow to a substantial portion of a reservoir, fluid or heat is introduced through injection wells located in rock that has fluid communication with production wells. See alkaline (caustic) flooding, gas injection, micellar-polymer flooding, primary recovery, secondary recovery, tertiary recovery, thermal recovery, waterflooding. 2. the use of certain recovery methods that not only restore formation pressure but also improve oil displacement or fluid flow in the reservoir. These methods may include chemical flooding, gas injection, and thermal recovery.

one or more of a variety of processes that seek to improve recovery of hydrocarbon from a reservoir after the primary production phase.

n: a type of miscible drive in which a polyrner is injected into an injection well to allow oil and water to rnix and flow to a producing well. See miscible drive. Corn pare alkaline (caustic) flooding, chemical flooding, waterflooding.