(from the article `heavy oil and tar sand`) The mechanics of heavy oil displacement in an in situ combustion operation is similar to that in the steam-flooding process except for one ... An alternate method for heating a reservoir involves the combustion of a part of the reservoir oil and is called in situ combustion. Large quantities ....
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the setting afire of some portion of the reservoir in order that the gases produced by combustion will drive oil ahead of it to the producing wells.
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