primary oil recovery
21Primary recovery — The crude oil or natural gas recovered by any method that may be employed to produce them where the fluid enters the well bore by the action of natural reservoir pressure(energy or gravity). U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information… …
22Peak oil — A logistic distribution shaped production curve, as originally suggested by M. King Hubbert in 1956 …
23Shale oil extraction — Shell s experimental in situ shale oil facility, Piceance Basin, Colorado, United States Process type Chemical Industrial sector(s) Chemical industry, oil indus …
24Unconventional oil — is petroleum produced or extracted using techniques other than the conventional (oil well) method. Oil industries and governments across the globe are investing in unconventional oil sources due to the increasing scarcity of conventional oil… …
25List of oil field acronyms — Contents 1 # 2 A 3 B 4 C …
26Deepwater Horizon oil spill — 2010 oil spill and BP oil spill redirect here. For other oil spills in 2010, see 2010 oil spill (disambiguation). For the 2006 oil spill involving BP, see Prudhoe Bay oil spill. For the drilling rig and explosion, see Deepwater Horizon… …
27Steam injection (oil industry) — Steam injection is an increasingly common method of extracting heavy oil. It is considered an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method and is the main type of thermal stimulation of oil reservoirs. There are several different forms of the technology,… …
28Tertiary Recovery — A technique used to extract the remaining oil from previously drilled and now less desirable reservoirs where primary and secondary extraction methods are no longer cost effective. Tertiary recovery has proven worthwhile in several parts of the… …
29North Sea oil — is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid oil and natural gas, produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In the oil industry, the term North Sea often includes areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the area known as West of Shetland …
30Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) is a quasi judicial agency in the U.S. state of Alaska, within Alaska s Department of Administration. [http://www.state.ak.us/admin/ogc/WhoWeAre/history.shtml Oil and Gas Conservation… …
