Enhanced oil recovery operations

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1980-09-29

1983-01-04

Pate, III, William F.

Wells

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Specific pattern of plural wells

E21B 4330

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043668631

ABSTRACT:
In an enhanced oil recovery process utilizing a plurality of wells disposed in a nearly square grid wherein a plurality of these wells are injection wells which are utilized to inject a fluid into a petroleum reservoir, said fluid being then forced through the reservoir towards a plurality of production wells from which the fluid and mobilized petroleum from the reservoir are produced, an improvement is added comprising utilizing the wells at the corners of each nearly square grid as injection wells, drilling two additional wells within each grid along one diagonal and then utilizing these two additional wells as new production wells.

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