Enhanced oil recovery:

Terms Related to Enhanced oil recovery

• Pressure maintenance

  Repressuring of an oil-field to maintain original pressure. The use of water flooding or natural gas recycling during primary recovery to provide additional formation pressure ...

• Improved oil recovery or ior

  Any of various methods, chiefly reservoir drive mechanisms and enhanced recover techniques, designed to improve the flow of hydrocarbons from the reservoir to the wellbore ...

• Tertiary recovery

  An enhanced recovery process that goes beyond water or gas flooding. It may involve steam, fire, chemicals, miscible gases, bacteria or other techniques.

• Waterflooding

  1. A method of improved recovery in which water is injected into a reservoir to remove additional quantities of oil that have been left behind ...

• Primary recovery

  The first stage of oil production in which natural reservoir drives are used to recover oil, although some form of artificial lift may be required ...

• Micellar-polymer flooding

  A method of improved oil recovery in which chemicals dissolved in water are pumped into a reservoir through injection wells to mobilize off left behind ...

• Miscible flood

  An oil-recovery process which involves the injection of a solvent followed by a displacing fluid. - a method of secondary recovery of fluids from a ...