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Enhanced recovery of oil from a dipping subterranean oil-bearing reservoir using light hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6423211
Recovery of oil from a dipping subterranean oil-bearing reservoir is effected by the injection of a first slug of a light hydrocarbon at a high rate to insure mixing with the reservoir oil adjacent the injection well followed by the injection of a second slug of carbon dioxide at a low rate to form a conditionally miscible transition zone with the altered reservoir oil and thereafter by the injection of a drive agent.
Assignee:
Texaco, Inc.
Patent Number(s):
US 4136738
OSTI ID:
6423211
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English