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 ...
Pressure maintenance
Repressuring of an oil-field to maintain original pressure. the use of water fooding or
natural gas recycling during primary recovery to provide additional formation
pressure ...
Steam drive
A method of improved recovery in which steam is injected into a reservoir through
injection wells and driven toward production wells. the steam reduces the ...
Reservoir drive mechanism
The process in which reservoir fluids are caused to flow out of the reservoir rock and into
a wellbore by natural energy. gas drives depend ...
Enhanced oil recovery
One or more of a variety of processes that seek to improve recovery of hydrocarbon
from a reservoir after the primary production phase.
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 mobili!e off left behind ...