Modern chemical enhanced oil recovery : theory and practice

• Main Author: Sheng, James
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Gulf Professional Pub., ©2011.
• Series: ScienceDirect eBooks.
• Subjects: Enhanced oil recovery.; Oil reservoir engineering.; Oil fields > Production methods.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780080961637; 0080961630; 1856177459; 9781856177450
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Crude oil development and production in U.S. oil reservoirs can include up to three distinct phases: primary, secondary, and tertiary (or enhanced) recovery. During primary recovery, the natural pressure of the reservoir or gravity drive oil into the wellbore, combined with artificial lift technique...