University of Colorado at Boulder
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BMP ID: 6194
Title: Use Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) for better produced water management
Text: "Reinjection into an underground formation represents the most commonly used approach for onshore management of produced water," and is used "to maintain reservoir pressure and hydraulically drive oil toward a producing well. This practice can be referred to as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), water flooding, or, if the water is heated to make steam, as steam flooding."
Source Publication Name: Produced Water Management Information System
Citation Section: Technology Descriptions: Fact Sheet - Underground Injection for Increasing Oil Recovery
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Usage Type: Recommended
Timing: • Production / Operation / Maintenance
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Surface Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Mineral Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Primary Contact: Argonne National Laboratory
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Alternate Contact: National Energy Technology Laboratory
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Categories: Water Quantity and Rights
Location: General / Federal
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BMP Efficacy: “It is important to ensure that the water being injected is compatible with the formations receiving the water to prevent premature plugging of the formation or other damage to equipment. It may therefore be necessary to treat the water to control excessive solids, dissolved oil, corrosion, chemical reactions, or growth of microbes.”
Date Entered: 2009-08-19 14:19 UTC
Last Updated: 2010-02-21 12:39 UTC