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Title: Quarterly Technical Progress Report - West Hackberry Tertiary Project

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1584· OSTI ID:1584

The West Hackberry Tertiary Project is a field test of the concept that air injection can generate tertiary oil recovery through the Double Displacement Process is the gas displacement of a water invaded oil column for the purpose of recovering tertiary oil through gravity discharge. The novel aspect of this project is the use of air as the injection fluid.

Research Organization:
Federal Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FC22-93BC14963
OSTI ID:
1584
Report Number(s):
DE-FC22-93BC14963-20; ON: DE00001584
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English