| 单词 | reservoir engineering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreservoir engineering reservoir engineering n. (a) the branch of civil engineering concerned with the construction of dams and reservoirs for water (now rare); (b) the study and exploitation of natural oil and gas reservoirs. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > study of reservoir engineering1868 petroleum geology1917 1868 Trans. Royal Sc. Soc. Arts 7 4 Opinions which I believe to have no good foundation, and are calculated to be very prejudicial to reservoir engineering. 1888 Westm. Rev. 129 59 If the periodical droughts from which its territory suffers..can be combated by any devices of dams and reservoir engineering [etc.]. 1944 U.S. Patent 2,342,367 1/1 The determination, interpretation, and application of this data is commonly known by the broad term, reservoir engineering. 1977 Times 2 Nov. 3 (advt.) Reservoir engineering is largely an art... Our job is to get information about..oil-bearing rock..below the sea bed. 1993 L. Randall Polit. Econ. Brazilian Oil ix. 247 CENPES undertook reservoir engineering studies for the Mishrif Formation of the Majnoon oil field..in Iraq. < as lemmas |
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