water flooding
/ˈwɔːtə flʌdɪŋ/Oil Industry
noun
The injection of water into a reservoir rock through wells drilled for the purpose, in order to force oil into neighbouring production wells.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Public Hearings. From water + flooding.
- Fleming, Sir John Ambrose
- Fleming's left-hand rule
- Fleming's left hand rule
- Fleming's right-hand rule
- Flemish
- Flemish bond
- flench
- flense
- flenser
- flesh
- flesh and blood
- flesh colour
- flesh-coloured
- flesh-eating
- fleshed
- flesher
- flesh fly
- fleshiness
- fleshings
- fleshless
- fleshly
- fleshpots
- flesh side
- flesh wound
- fleshy