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• Oil sands — The Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada, are a very large source of bitumen, which can be upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. The… …   Wikipedia

• Oil Industry Safety Directorate — The Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) is an organisation supported by all petroleum companies of India, like IOCL, ONGC, BPCL, HPCL, OIL etc. OISD has basically framed rules and guidelines for Safe Distances to be observed for various… …   Wikipedia

• Microbial enhanced oil recovery — (MEOR) is a biological based technology consisting in manipulating function or structure, or both, of microbial environments existing in oil reservoirs. The ultimate aim of MEOR is to improve the recovery of oil entrapped in porous media while… …   Wikipedia

• heavy oil and tar sand — Introduction       crude oils (crude oil) below 20° API gravity are usually considered to be heavy. The lighter conventional crudes are often waterflooded to enhance recovery. The injection of water into the reservoir helps to maintain reservoir… …   Universalium

• Steam injection (oil industry) — Steam injection is an increasingly common method of extracting heavy oil. It is considered an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method and is the main type of thermal stimulation of oil reservoirs. There are several different forms of the technology,… …   Wikipedia

• Completion (oil and gas wells) — This article is about the oil or gas well completion. For other uses of completion, see Completion (disambiguation) In petroleum production, completion is the process of making a well ready for production (or injection). This principally involves …   Wikipedia

• Well stimulation — is a well intervention performed on an oil or gas well to increase production by improving the flow of hydrocarbons from the drainage area into the well bore.Cleaning the formationThe assortment of chemicals pumped down the well during drilling… …   Wikipedia

• History of the petroleum industry in Canada (oil sands and heavy oil) — Canada s oil sands and heavy oil resources are among the world s great petroleum deposits. They include the vast oil sands of northern Alberta, and the heavy oil reservoirs that surround the small city of Lloydminster, which sits on the border… …   Wikipedia

• List of oil field acronyms — Contents 1 # 2 A 3 B 4 C …   Wikipedia

• Chief Oil & Gas — Chief Oil and Gas Type Private company Industry Oil and Gas Founded 1994 Headquarters Dallas, Texas, USA …   Wikipedia

• Steam-Oil Ratio — The steam oil ratio (SOR) is a metric used to quantify the efficiency of oil recovery processes based on types of steam injection. The steam oil ratio measures the volume of steam used to produce one unit volume of oil. The lower the ratio, the… …   Investment dictionary