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re-ˈpressuring, vbl. n. [f. re- 5 a + pressure + -ing1.] The pumping of fluid into an oil well so as to increase or maintain the pressure in the oil-bearing strata, allowing more oil to be extracted.
1929Jrnl. Inst. Petroleum Technologists XV. 430 If a flush field is produced inefficiently and re-pressuring is left until the field is almost commercially exhausted the ultimate yield of the pool must be very considerably less than when properly controlled back-pressures have been used from the beginning and re-pressuring operations commenced in the early life of the field. 1940Sun (Baltimore) 24 Sept. 6/8 An oil field at Walters, Okla., has been revived by a method known as repressuring. 1961Economist 2 Dec. 955/2 This pipeline..will eventually carry..salt water in the opposite direction, to be pumped into the underground structure in order to keep up underground pressure and keep the oil flowing up and out to the coast. This ‘re⁓pressuring’ project is one of the largest ever undertaken outside the United States. |