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TERTIARY RECOVERY [13 records]

Record 1 2019-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Engineering
  • Oil Drilling
  • Petroleum Deposits
DEF

... an engineer who is involved in most stages of oil and gas field evaluation, development, and production, whose job is to maximize hydrocarbon recovery and reduce costs and environmental impact.

CONT

Petroleum engineers develop and implement effective techniques for recovering, processing, and producing oil and natural gas. They apply engineering, environmental, and economic principles to ensure that exploration and development of oil and gas fields are efficient, cost effective, and environmentally safe. These engineers can specialize in drilling, reservoir management, completions, production, operations, secondary and tertiary recovery methods, and pipelines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Ingénierie
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Gisements pétrolifères
CONT

Les ingénieurs pétroliers développent des techniques efficaces de récupération, de traitement et de production de pétrole et de gaz naturel. Ils appliquent des principes d'économie, d'environnement et d'ingénierie pour garantir l'exploitation et le développement efficaces, rentables et écologiques des champs de gaz et de pétrole. Ces ingénieurs se spécialisent dans le forage, la gestion des réservoirs, la réalisation, la production, l'exploitation, les méthodes de recouvrement secondaires ou tertiaires ou les pipelines.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

Now the generally accepted designation for all unconventional recovery processes which can be separated into three major categories, i.e. thermal processes, chemical processes and miscible displacement processes.

OBS

Processes developed to increase recovery from reservoirs considered depleted by secondary recovery methods of waterflooding or gas injection were termed "tertiary recovery"; but the name was illsuited for recovery from reservoirs which would not respond to secondary recovery methods; this prompted introduction of the term "enhanced oil recovery. "

OBS

enhanced oil recovery: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Ensemble des techniques de récupération autres que la production naturelle, y compris l'injection d'eau et de gaz.

OBS

Les termes «récupération secondaire» et «tertiaire» impliquent la référence à un choix chronologique sur la mise en œuvre de ces méthodes; or les procédés de récupération secondaire tendent à être mis en œuvre assez tôt, souvent bien avant la fin de la phase de récupération «primaire». Il est préférable de renoncer à utiliser cette terminologie.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

The efficiency with which water displaces oil or gas in a water drive oil or gas field.

CONT

In the North Durbank tertiary recovery pilot, gelled polymer treatments were used to correct vertical conformance problems.... This kind of... treatment can improve the sweep efficiency of the various chemical processes. Improved sweep efficiency can come from better vertical or areal conformance or from both.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Fraction de l'aire totale du gisement effectivement drainée.

OBS

[...] dans un cas classique le volume de réservoir que l'eau balaie n'est pas supérieur à 40-45 % du volume total de roche concerné (on dit que le «balayage macroscopique» a une efficacité de 40-45 %). [...] au niveau des pores [...] on constate [...] qu'une importante partie du pétrole [...] reste indéfiniment «piégée» [...] Finalement l'efficacité microscopique de balayage ne dépasse guère 60 % et le taux moyen de récupération par injection d'eau (efficacité macroscopique x efficacité microscopique) 25 %.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
DEF

A tertiary recovery technique. Steam, and in some cases fire, is introduced into a depleted well to encourage any trapped oil to migrate towards the well bore.

PHR

Thermal recovery process, project.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Extraction du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Technique d'amélioration de la production d'un gisement par des méthodes utilisant la chaleur.

OBS

Il s'agit de procédés faisant appel à la chaleur pour faciliter, par abaissement de la viscosité, l'extraction de pétroles bruts sensiblement visqueux et situés généralement à de faibles profondeurs. On peut distinguer deux principaux modes d'action : La combustion «in situ» [...] Le chauffage des couches pétrolifères par de la vapeur d'eau.

PHR

projet de récupération thermique in situ.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
DEF

Crude oil which is not classified as conventional crude oil (e.g., bitumen).

CONT

... unconventional crude oil(shale oil, tar sands, or tertiary recovery)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétroles bruts et dérivés
DEF

Pétrole brut qui n'est pas considéré comme du pétrole brut classique (p. ex., le bitume).

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
OBS

Oilfields, after a certain production period, are then called mature fields. Mature fields are those where the recovered oil fraction is close to the final recovery factor. Its mature phase is generally accompanied by an increasing production of water or gas, plus the aging of surface and subsurface equipment. To revitalize mature fields, a series of technologies is developed to increase the final recovery factor through treatments on a field(the so-called tertiary petroleum recovery) or well(stimulation, recompletion, treatments and logging) scale, in addition to optimizing the techniques relating to oil lift, its surface flow and treatment.

OBS

Many mature gas fields also have a fairly significant production decline, especially when development drilling has come to an end. These mature fields can be revitalized in many ways. In some instances, efforts are focused on the reservoir with further drilling to drain potentially unswept hydrocarbons with infill wells or horizontal laterals. The horizontal drilling might be from new wellbores or wells that are currently temporarily abandoned or near their economic limit. With the increase in horizontal-well activity, there is an abundance of new technology with advances in gravel-pack design, underbalanced drilling with coiled tubing, and coiled-tubing fracturing. Besides these production improvements, operators are revamping both downhole and surface facilities to help breathe new life into older fields. Advances are taking place in the areas of artificial lift, intelligent-well completions, expandable tubulars, and others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
OBS

Les gisements du Néocomien s'épuisent en moyenne de 6 % par an, il nous fallait arrêter ce déclin par une revitalisation des champs pétrolifères que nous exploitons actuellement.

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

A recovery method employed to remove additional hydrocarbons after secondary methods have been applied to a reservoir.

CONT

While historically, the percentage recovery of these heavy oils has averaged less than 10 per cent, tertiary recovery methods currently under development could increase these recovery factors substantially.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Toute technique venant après une technique de récupération secondaire.

CONT

La combustion in situ est typiquement une méthode d'extraction tertiaire, elle s'applique surtout aux pétroles visqueux de gisements relativement peu profonds. Elle peut intervenir après que le gisement a été l'objet d'un balayage par l'eau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción petrolera
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Record 8 1988-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
OBS

Source: Income Tax Regulations, S. 1206(1).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
OBS

Source : Règlements de l'impôt sur le revenu, art. 1206(1).

Spanish

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Record 9 1988-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
  • Oil Production
CONT

... tertiary recovery methods... could increase these recovery factors substantially. For this reason :recovery technology and production economics must be analyzed in some detail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
CONT

... tertiary recovery of the... Lloydminster crudes... involves the use of thermal methods... Steam : steam basically serves to increase the temperature of the heavy oil... Generally a steam soak period of perhaps 30 days is initiated, followed by a brief shut-in period to enable some temperature stabilization... in the formation, after which the well is produced for several months.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
CONT

Méthodes thermiques. [...] L'injection cyclique de vapeur [...] L'application de cette technique comporte trois phases : - une phase d'injection [...] - une phase d'attente pendant laquelle le puits est fermé [...] - une phase de production [...]

OBS

Le volume 6 de la série IFP-14 est paru en 1975.

Spanish

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Record 12 1985-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
CONT

... tertiary recovery of the... Lloydminster crudes... involves the use of thermal methods... Steam : steam basically serves to increase the temperature of the heavy oil... Generally a steam soak period of perhaps 30 days is initiated, followed by a brief shut-in period to enable some temperature stabilization... in the formation, after which the well is produced for several months.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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Record 13 1985-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heat (Physics)
  • Oil Production
CONT

... tertiary recovery of the... Lloydminster crudes... involves the use of thermal methods... Steam : steam basically serves to increase the temperature of the heavy oil... Generally a steam soak period of perhaps 30 days is initiated, followed by a brief shut-in period to enable some temperature stabilization... in the formation, after which the well is produced for several months.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chaleur (Physique)
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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