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PRONUNCIATION OF WATERFLOOD

waterflood  [ˈwɔːtərˌflʌd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATERFLOOD

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Waterflood is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WATERFLOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Water injection (oil production)

Water injection or water flooding refers to the method in the oil industry where water is injected into the reservoir, usually to increase pressure and thereby stimulate production. Water injection wells can be found both on- and offshore, to increase oil recovery from an existing reservoir. Water is injected to support pressure of the reservoir, and to sweep or displace oil from the reservoir, and push it towards a well. Normally only 30% of the oil in a reservoir can be extracted, but water injection increases that percentage and maintains the production rate of a reservoir over a longer period. Waterflooding began accidentally in Pithole, Pennsylvania by 1865. Waterflooding became common in Pennsylvania in the 1880s.

Definition of waterflood in the English dictionary

The definition of waterflood in the dictionary is a flood or overflowing of water.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WATERFLOOD


beblood
bɪˈblʌd
blood
blʌd
coldblood
ˈkəʊldˌblʌd
fireflood
ˈfaɪəˌflʌd
flesh-and-blood
ˌflɛʃəndˈblʌd
flood
flʌd
gutterblood
ˈɡʌtərˌblʌd
hotblood
ˈhɒtˌblʌd
lifeblood
ˈlaɪfˌblʌd
lud
lʌd
M´lud
məˈlʌd
overflood
ˌəʊvəˈflʌd
oxblood
ˈɒksˌblʌd
photoflood
ˈfəʊtəʊˌflʌd
pureblood
ˈpjʊəˌblʌd
reflood
riːˈflʌd
warmblood
ˈwɔːmˌblʌd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATERFLOOD

watercourse
watercraft
watercress
waterdrive
watered
watered silk
watered-down
waterer
waterfall
waterfinder
Waterford
waterfowl
waterfowler
waterfront
Watergate
waterhead
Waterhouse
waterily
wateriness
watering

WORDS THAT END LIKE WATERFLOOD

bad blood
blue blood
curdle someone´s blood
Deucalion´s flood
dragon´s blood
first blood
flash flood
flesh and blood
full blood
half-blood
in cold blood
in one´s blood
livelood
new blood
sticky blood
sweat blood
the blood
the Flood
whole blood
young blood

Synonyms and antonyms of waterflood in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «waterflood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATERFLOOD

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Translator English - Chinese

注水
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inyección de agua
570 millions of speakers

English

waterflood
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

waterflood
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

waterflood
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заводнения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

injeção de água
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

waterflood
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

injection d´eau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Air terjun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wasserflutung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

waterflood
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

waterflood
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banyu kali
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

waterflood
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜலப்பிரவாகங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झरे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öteleme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

waterflood
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

waterflood
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заводнення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inundare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

waterflood
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stortvloed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

waterflood
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vannstrømmen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of waterflood

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATERFLOOD»

The term «waterflood» is normally little used and occupies the 122.512 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about waterflood

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATERFLOOD»

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Integrated Waterflood Asset Management
This book provides a thorough understanding of the practical approach to waterflood asset management. It uses multidisciplinary integrated teams and resource management practices to enhance hydrocarbon recovery and maximize profitability.
Ganesh C. Thakur, Abdus Satter, 1998
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Intelligent Signal Processing for Oilfield Waterflood Management
This thesis addresses two problems about water-flood management: (1) infer reservoir heterogeneity using measured injection and production rates, and (2) construct a decision support system to optimize oil production using computing with ...
Feilong Liu, 2008
3
Practical Enhanced Reservoir Engineering: Assisted with ...
This chapter is devoted to learning about the following: • History of waterflooding • Waterflood strategies and life of the waterflood project • Waterflood process • Waterflood recovery efficiency • Waterflood design • Performance prediction ...
Abdus Satter, Ghulam M. Iqbal, James L. Buchwalter, 2008
4
High-pressure Air Injection (HPAI) and Waterflood ...
This case study shows that HPAI is a technically feasible process.
Dubert Gutierrez, 2007
5
Enhanced Oil Recovery, I: Fundamentals and Analyses
IMPROVED WATERFLOOD PROCESSES In the discussion of the double Buckley-Leverett predictive technique, the subject of the improved waterflood processes was mentioned briefly. This section provides additional information on two ...
E.C. Donaldson, G.V. Chilingarian, T.F. Yen, 1985
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Tracers in the Oil Field
COMPARISON WITH WATERFLOOD TRACING The requirements of a tracer test for a logging observation well differ in many ways from those for a conventional waterflood tracer test. The applicable tracers here are limited to gamma-emitting  ...
B. Zemel, 1995
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Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, ...
In this popular text that has trained thousands in the petroleum industry for years, Dr. Norman Hyne takes readers through upstream operations--from how oil and gas are formed; how to find commercial quantities; how to drill, evaluate, and ...
Norman J. Hyne, 2012
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Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice
problems on the operation of the waterflood project. The generation of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate reducing bacteria should be controlled and eliminated. C. Production Wells. Production wells must be monitored regularly in a waterflood ...
Nnaemeka Ezekwe, 2010
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The Practice of Reservoir Engineering
Because of the grain-size effect, the permeability will increase upward in the upward-coarsening sand, and it will decrease upward in the upward-fining sand. The two stairstep plots on the right show oil saturations remaining after a waterflood.
L. P. Dake, 2001
10
Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Theory and Practice
6.4.3 Secondary and Tertiary Polymer Flooding Huh and Pope (2008) reported that a tertiary polymer flood did not mobilize the waterflood residual oil saturation, whereas a secondary polymer flood displaced oil below the waterflood residual ...
James Sheng, 2010

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATERFLOOD»

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Range Resources sells rig fleet and looks ahead to waterflood projects
The Trinidad-focused E&P, still suspended from trading, is readying plans to begin extended waterflooding to drain additional barrels from its fields. These plans ... «oilbarrel.com, Jan 15»
2
Legacy Oil + Gas focuses on waterflood opportunities in 2015
The program will be focused on light oil development, Legacy said, with the majority of spending directed to drilling, completions, equipping and waterfloods. «Proactive Investors USA & Canada, Dec 14»
3
Bakken Pilot Success Could See Waterflood Tested In Other Tight …
Crescent Point Energy Corp.'s Viewfield Bakken waterflood pilot programs are showing positive initial results and could encourage other producers to attempt ... «Pipeline News North, Aug 14»
4
Bakken Explorers 2013: Crescent Point bullish on unitization …
Waterflooding, an enhanced oil recovery technique, functions best over an entire pool rather than on individual wells. But the owners must reach a unitization ... «Petroleum News, Aug 13»
5
US Shale Industry Set for a Second Boom with Waterflood Technology
Producers are using “waterfloods”— pushing water into underground formations to flush a large amount of oil out to nearby producing wells — to increase ... «OilPrice.com, Apr 13»
6
Crescent Point Announces Strategic Bakken Waterflood
The Bakken Waterflood Assets to be acquired include more than 2,900 boe/d of high-quality light oil production and more than 25 net sections of land in the core ... «Canada NewsWire, Feb 12»
7
Cabinda waterflood program one of the world's largest
Dating back over 100 years, the waterflood concept is a popular form of reservoir management. The injected water helps to push the oil in the formation towards ... «Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine, Jun 10»

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