Editions Technip, Paris, 1980 - 245 p.
Enhanced recovery plays a progressively more important part in oil production. Faced with ever-increasing demand and the continuing rise in oil prices, assisted recovery oil is becoming more and more competitive.
Factors common to all enhanced recovery methods
Water injection
Gas injection in an oil reservoirs (immiscible displacement)
Miscible drive
Gas recycling in Gas-condensate reservoirs
Thermal recovery methods
Other methods of enhanced recovery