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English translation: Additional Oil Recovery

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German term or phrase:	Mehrfoerderung
English translation:	Additional Oil Recovery
Entered by:	Martha Oschwald

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12:46 Oct 28, 2011

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Tech/Engineering - Geology / wells/ oil drilling/sands

German term or phrase: Mehrfoerderung

Context: thermal summary of an oil field

readings:
pure oil
Mehrfoerderung (t)
steam injection
OSR
IOSR
cumulative IOSR
PV steam
RF

I have been using Foerderung as processing so do not know if Mehrfoerderung would mean something like additional processing. ??

Martha Oschwald KudoZ activity Questions: 97 (none open) (4 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 0 Finland
Local time: 04:06

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Explanation:
This seems to fit, see links in the discussion.

Note that Wikipedia quotes a few thermal methods of EOR, which means that this fits in the context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery#Thermal_m...

Selected response from:

Joshua Pepper
Local time: 02:06

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Thank you! I think I will use this but the slightly altered version of additional oil recovery. Thanks also for the peer agreement since it is usually a good indication of which answer to pick.
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Enhanced Oil Recovery

Joshua Pepper

overproduction

Paraskevas Stavrakos

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peer agreement (net): +2

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Joshua Pepper
Local time: 02:06
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thank you! I think I will use this but the slightly altered version of additional oil recovery. Thanks also for the peer agreement since it is usually a good indication of which answer to pick.

25 mins confidence:

overproduction

Explanation:
I looked up the word "Erdölforderung" and the results show that it means "oil production".

So, "overproduction", "oversupply", "increased supply" (as mentioned) could be suitable translations.

Reference: http://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&que...
Reference: //http://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&q...

Paraskevas Stavrakos
Greece
Local time: 04:06
Native speaker of:

Greek

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Oct 28, 2011 - Changes made by casper:
Field	Science => Tech/Engineering

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