Open AccessQuarterly Technical Progress Report - West Hackberry Tertiary Project
Author(s) -
B. Cerveny,
Tor K. Kragas,
Travis Gillham
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1578
Subject(s) - displacement (psychology) , petroleum engineering , geography , geology , psychology , psychotherapist
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