waterflood

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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

"The Lord sitteth above the waterflood, and the Lord remaineth a king for ever."

From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry

Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder?

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)