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  2. Oil well control - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary oil well control describes the third line of defense, where the formation cannot be controlled by primary or secondary well control (hydrostatic and equipment). This happens in underground blowout situations. The following are examples of tertiary well control:

  3. Enhanced oil recovery - Wikipedia

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    Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR), also called tertiary recovery, is the extraction of crude oil from an oil field that cannot be extracted otherwise. Whereas primary and secondary recovery techniques rely on the pressure differential between the surface and the underground well, enhanced oil recovery functions by altering the physical or ...

  4. Microbial enhanced oil recovery - Wikipedia

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    Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is a biological-based technology involving the manipulation of functions or structures within microbial environments present in oil reservoirs. The primary objective of MEOR is to improve the extraction of oil confined within porous media, while boosting economic benefits.

  5. Well control - Wikipedia

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    the drilling and operating companies well control policies. For workover or completion operations, other methods are often used. Bullheading is a common way to kill a well during workovers and completions operations but is not often used while drilling. Reverse circulation is another kill method used for workovers that are not used for drilling ...

  6. Extraction of petroleum - Wikipedia

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    Oil rigs and oil platforms are used to drill long holes into the earth to create an oil well and extract petroleum. After extraction, oil is refined to make gasoline and other products such as tires and refrigerators. Extraction of petroleum can be dangerous and have led to oil spills. [1]

  7. Well intervention - Wikipedia

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    Well intervention vessel Skandi Constructor. A well intervention, or well work, is any operation carried out on an oil or gas well during, or at the end of, its productive life that alters the state of the well or well geometry, provides well diagnostics, or manages the production of the well.

  8. Oil well - Wikipedia

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    An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is ... Such enhanced recovery techniques are often called Secondary or "tertiary recovery ... Oil well control – The ...

  9. Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 American film Hellfighters, which starred John Wayne, is about a group of oil well firefighters, based loosely on Adair's life; Adair, Hansen, and Matthews served as technical advisors on the film. In 1994, Adair retired and sold his company to Global Industries. Management of Adair's company left and created International Well Control ...