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The Secondary Recovery of Petroleum

The life of an oil well can be extended by techniques that push oil out of the rock after the decline of natural pressure. Such methods may account for half of the U.S. output of oil by 1980

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 213 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Secondary Recovery of Petroleum” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 1 (), p. 34
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0765-34