| 释义 |
ˈwater-flooding, vbl. n. Oil Industry.
[f. water n. + flooding vbl. n.]
The injection of water into a reservoir rock through wells drilled for the purpose, in order to force oil into neighbouring production wells.
1928Trans. AIME Petroleum Div. LXXVII. 391 Of some value in water-flooding are water analyses and..data of sand conditions. 1938H. S. Gibson in A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum I. xi. 535/1 In the Bradford field of Pennsylvania..water flooding as a production practice was legalized in 1921. 1940[see secondary a. 5 k]. 1961Economist 2 Dec. 956/1 The.. water..will be injected around the flanks of the [oil] field, and not in the centre as in most ‘waterflooding’ projects. 1982D. R. Skinner Introd. Petroleum Production II. i. 2 The first methods of secondary recovery utilized gas injection and a primitive form of water injection—saltwater disposal. Later, water injection or secondary waterflooding became the dominant form of secondary recovery. |