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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: natural gas that overlies and contacts crude oil in a reservoir. Where reservoir conditions are such that the production of associated gas does not substantially affect the recovery of crude oil in the reservoir, such gas may also be reclassified as non-associated gas by a regulatory agency. Also called associated free gas. See gas cap.

the natural gas which occurs with crude oil. It may be free or dissolved. When it occurs as free gas, it may be called unassociated gas.

n: The process that superpolymer is destroied by the microbe and macromolecule fractures to micromolecule.

breaking down alkanes by bacterial action. Common by psedomonis and ultramonis bacteria and other bacterial strains that digest parts of the crude oil structures. Useful for remediating oil spills or tank bottom residuals.

the solids and water entrained in crude oil.

n: the process by which a single quantity of crude oil emulsion is broken into oil and water. The emulsion is gathered and stored in a tank or container prior to treating. Compare flow-line treating.

n: the price per barrel of certain crude oils such as West Texas intermediate and North Sea Brent, which serves as an indicator of worldwide oil prices.

n: C6H6 colourless, volatile, flammable toxic liquid aromatic hydrocarbon used as a solvent and as a motor fuel.

an aromatic (cyclic or ring structure) compound, present in very minor quantities in many crude oils.

a traditional crude oil, containing alkanes (straight carbon chains) of C5 to C30+ liquids.

n: 1. a pressurised device capable of transferring liquid;sometimes used to transfer crude oil and water mixtures if pump agitation would create unwanted emulsions.2. a small tank in which liquids are accumulated and drained by applying gas or air pressure above the liquid level. Such a vessel is usually located below a pipeline or other equipment at a location where an outside power source is not convenient for removing the drained liquids. Sometimes referred to as a drip.