steam injection

collocation in English

meaningsofsteamandinjection

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steam
noun[U]
uk
/stiːm/us
/stiːm/
the hot gas that is produced when ...
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injection
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈdʒek.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of putting a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle and a syringe (= ...
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(Definition ofsteamandinjectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The impact of such flaring is a high luminosity flame, and noise associated with the use ofsteaminjection to ensure complete combustion of flared material.
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Technology, such as usingsteaminjectionin oil sands deposits, is being developed to increase the efficiency of unconventional oil production.
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Methods include cyclicsteaminjection, steam flooding and combustion.
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In this method, the well is put through cycles ofsteaminjection, soak, and oil production.
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A wet process also exists whereby the fat is melted by directsteaminjection.
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In the early 1960s, operators began pilot cyclicsteaminjection, which proved successful, and steam flooding in the 1960s and 70s worked even better.
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Another contributing factor that enhances oil production duringsteaminjectionis related to near-wellbore cleanup.
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Since this oil is heavy, it is viscous and flows easily only when assisted bysteaminjectionor other enhanced recovery techniques.
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Thermal enhancements such as hot air orsteaminjectionincrease the subsurface soil temperature, thereby improving the volatility of the contamination.
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Contrast this to when the die block is at the bottom of the expansion link (7), giving maximumsteaminjectionand exhaust.
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The shallow burial depth and ideal nature of the sandstones make them almost perfectly suited forsteaminjection.
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Thermal recovery processes, also known assteaminjection, have traditionally burned natural gas to produce steam.
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In some circumstances, when steam is available in the plant, considerable money may be saved by using livesteaminjection.
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Production steadily declined from that peak until the invention of thesteaminjectionmethod in the 1960s.
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Then oil is produced out of the same well, at first by natural flow (since thesteaminjectionwill have increased the reservoir pressure) and then by artificial lift.
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It has the advantage of much better energy efficiency oversteaminjection, and it does some partial upgrading of bitumen to oil right in the formation.
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