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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 method of thermal recovery in which water at the boiling point is injected into a formation to lower the viscosity of the oil and allow it to flow more freely toward producing wells. Although generally less effective than steam injection because of lower heat, hot waterflooding may be preferable under certain conditions, such as formation sensitivity to fresh water or high pressures.

n: a method of improved recovery in which heat is generated within the reservoir by injecting air and burning a portion of the oil in place. The heat of initial combustion cracks the crude hydrocarbons, vaporises the lighter hydrocarbons, and deposits the heavier hydrocarbons as coke. As the fire moves from the injection well in the direction of producing wells, it bums the deposited coke, releases hot combustion gases, and converts connate water into steam. The vaporised hydrocarbons and the steam move ahead of the combustion zone, condensing into liquids as they cool and moving oil by miscible displacement and hot waterflooding. Combustion gases provide additional gas drive. Heat lowers the viscosity of the oil, causing it to flow more freely. This method is used to recover heavy, viscous oil. Also called fire flooding.

n: in waterflooding, a straight-line pattern of injection wells designed to advance water to the producing wells in the form of a nearly linear frontal movement. See waterflooding.

using a line of injectors to drive fluid preferentially along a given path.

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.

n: the use of waterflooding or gas injection to provide additional formation pressure to supplement and to conserve natural reservoir drives. Although commonly begun during primary production, pressure maintenance is a form of improved recovery. See improved recovery, secondary recovery.

n: in waterflooding, the entrapment of oil in rocks of lower permeability, where gas space has developed during primary production. The resaturated oil is bypassed by the waterflood as the water seeks the path of highest permeability.

n: 1. the use of waterflooding or gas injection to maintain formation pressure during primary production and to reduce the rate of decline of the original reservoir drive. 2. waterflooding of a depleted reservoir. 3. the first improved recovery method of any type applied to a reservoir to produce oil not recoverable by primary recovery methods. See pressure maintenance, primary recovery.

a recovery improvement process such as water flooding or gas flooding.

n: pump used in waterflooding or in water disposal. In waterflooding, the pump injects water into a well drilled in one part of a reservoir to force oil to a production well. In water disposal, the pump injects water produced from a well into a reservoir for disposal.

n: a method of improved recovery in which water is injected into a reservoir to remove additional quantities of oil that have been left behind after primary recovery. Waterflooding usually involves the injection of water through wells specially set up for water injection and the removal of water and oil from production wells drilled adjacent to the injection wells.