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Water Injection

Water injection or water flooding refers to injecting water into oil reservoirs to increase pressure and stimulate oil production. Water is injected through both onshore and offshore wells to boost oil recovery from existing reservoirs. The primary purposes of water injection are to maintain reservoir pressure through voidage replacement and sweep or displace oil towards production wells, allowing for a higher percentage of oil to be extracted where normally only 30% could be recovered without water flooding. Waterflooding began accidentally in the 1860s in Pennsylvania and became a common practice in the 1880s to increase oil recovery from reservoirs.

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Water Injection

Water injection or water flooding refers to injecting water into oil reservoirs to increase pressure and stimulate oil production. Water is injected through both onshore and offshore wells to boost oil recovery from existing reservoirs. The primary purposes of water injection are to maintain reservoir pressure through voidage replacement and sweep or displace oil towards production wells, allowing for a higher percentage of oil to be extracted where normally only 30% could be recovered without water flooding. Waterflooding began accidentally in the 1860s in Pennsylvania and became a common practice in the 1880s to increase oil recovery from reservoirs.

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Water injection or water flooding refers to the method in the oil industry where water is injected into the

reservoir, usually to increase pressure and thereby stimulate production. Water injection wells can be found both on- and offshore, to increase oil recovery from an existing reservoir. Water is injected (1) to support pressure of the reservoir (also known as voidage replacement), and (2) to sweep or displace oil from the reservoir, and push it towards a well. Normally only 30% of the oil in a reservoir can be extracted, but water injection increases that percentage (known as the recovery factor) and maintains the production rate of a reservoir over a longer period. Waterflooding began accidentally in Pithole, Pennsylvania by 1865. Waterflooding became common in Pennsylvania in the 1880s

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