(water-)flooding

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_230434

(water-)flooding, (water-)drive, oil-field (water)flooding, oil-field (water-)drive [Technique of increasing recovery of oil (secondary recovery) from an oil reservoir by injection of water through input wells into the formation to drive the oil toward producing wells. Informally called “waterflood”] ● Fluten n, Wasserfluten, Wassertrieb m

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