waterflood
Oil recovery technique
Waterflood refers to a method of oil recovery where water is injected into a reservoir to maintain pressure and drive remaining oil toward production wells.
The technique extends the productive life of oil fields after natural pressure declines: The company initiated a waterflood program to boost output from the aging field.
As a verb, to waterflood is to apply this technique to a reservoir.
Syringe-delivered dose
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
- secondaryLesser in rank
- enhancedIncreased in quality
- sweepBrush clean with broom
recovery · petroleum · production · extraction · oilfield · wellbore · drilling · crude
Ability to transmit fluids
- porosityVoid space density
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- capillarySmallest blood vessel
- brineWater saturated with sodium
connate · wettability · matrix · formation · interstitial · mobility · fingering
injection
Syringe-delivered dose
sweep · recovery · petroleum · production · extraction · oilfield · wellbore · drilling · crude · hydrocarbons
permeability
Ability to transmit fluids
- porosityVoid space density
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- capillarySmallest blood vessel
brine · connate · wettability · matrix · formation · interstitial · mobility · fingering
furrow
Narrow trench in earth
field · crop · soil · agriculture · cultivation · paddy · terrace · canal · diversion · runoff
deluge
Severe overflow of water
swamp · surge · torrent · cloudburst · monsoon · siltation · fluvial · pluvial · breach · crest
water, flood, watery, flooded, waterfall, flooding, floodgate, floodlight, floodplain