waterflood
Example Sentences
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The Wyoming deal will include waterflood developments in the Big Horn and Wind River basins and the 570-mile Red Butte pipeline.
In the interim, the company is focusing on steamflood and waterflood drive mechanisms, which improve recovery from oil wells, according to Margita Thompson, a spokeswoman for CRC.
From Reuters
The Canadian company said it will acquire 100 percent interest in a keyhole section of its existing waterflood in Dixonville, which is in north-western Alberta.
From Reuters
Around him were wells producing oil by the waterflood method, in which oil is recovered by pumping water into the ground, thus increasing the underground pressure and forcing oil up the well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Climax, which already has an active waterflood oil division, insisted that it bought Whitehill only for the oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
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