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Techniques for Improving the Oil Recovery

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Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

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We have seen in preceding chapters that not all of the hydrocarbon contained in a reservoir can be extracted. The basic resource, therefore, cannot be converted entirely to reserves: part of the resource is left behind as a remaining oil saturation (ROS).

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Chierici, G.L. (1995). Techniques for Improving the Oil Recovery. In: Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78243-5_5

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