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• Enhanced oil recovery and improved drilling technology no. 19- (Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, 1975), by United States. Dept. of Energy. Bartlesville Project Office, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, Gas United States. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Division of Oil, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, United States. Dept. of Energy, and Bartlesville Energy Technology Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enhancement of recovery of oil and gas (U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, in the 1970s), by United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, Gas United States. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, and United States. Energy Research and Development Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enhancement of recovery of oil and gas (U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, in the 1970s), by United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, Gas United States. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, and United States. Energy Research and Development Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enhanced oil recovery and improved drilling technology no. 19- (Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, 1975), by United States. Dept. of Energy. Bartlesville Project Office, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, Gas United States. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Division of Oil, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, United States. Dept. of Energy, and Bartlesville Energy Technology Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evaluation of current programs to identify and mitigate socioeconomic impacts in the Santa Barbara Channel : an analysis of SEMP : final report (U.S. Dept. of Interior, Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region, 1994), by Harvey Luskin Molotch, John Woolley, and United States. Minerals Management Service. Pacific OCS Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• Optimization of carbon deposition experiments in thermal oil recovery by statistical analysis (U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1970), by A. W. Effinger, L. A. Schrider, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Understanding the peak oil theory : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, December 7, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profitability analysis of producing crude oil by waterflooding using a simulation technique (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1974), by William D. Dietzman and James H. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Mines liquid-level gage (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1954), by F. G. Mueller, C. F. McClung, D. B. Taliaferro, and H. C. Hamontre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of ultrasonic energy on fluid flow in porous media (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by C. A. Komar and Clyde I. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory investigation of the in situ combustion process for recovering Pennsylvania grade crude oil (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Thomas E. Sterner and William T. Wertman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Productivity of oil wells and inherent influence of gas : oil ratios and water saturation (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1942), by R. V. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil-reservoir behavior based upon pressure-production data (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1942), by Harold Carl Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil production methods (Western Engineering Pub. Co., 1913), by Paul McClary Paine, Walter Behrnard Sampson, William Francis Sampson, and Benjamin Kendrick Strowd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recovery of oil from sands by the "gas drive" (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1930), by Joseph Chalmers, D. B. Taliaferro, I. H. Nelson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operation of electrified and automatic leases. ([Austin, 1960), by University of Texas. Petroleum Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Cutler's Rule of well spacing (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1939), by Harold Carl Miller, R. V. Higgins, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enhanced oil recovery and improved drilling technology (Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology., 1979), by United States. Dept. of Energy and Bartlesville Energy Technology Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petroleum production research at Penn State in retrospect : with contents of bulletins and circulars and M.S. and Ph.D. thesis [i.e. theses] in the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas, 1930-1966 (Pennsylvania State University, 1966), by Ralph Frederick Nielsen, Luther Trauger Bissey, and Pennsylvania State University. Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil recovery by carbon dioxide injection. (Dept of Energy ;, 1977), by Pennzoil Company, George P. SanFilippo, Paul E. King, and United States. Department of Energy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of the potential for future work on methods of determining residual oil : final report (U.S. Dept. of Energy ;, 1979), by Donald C. Bond, Thomas C. Wesson, and United States. Dept. of Energy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Solvent stimulation tests in two California oilfields (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1974), by O.C. Baptist, W.H. Caraway, G. L. Gates, and H. J. Lechtenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sixteenth Technical Conference on Petroleum Production [held October 22-24, 1952] : [papers] (Pennsylvania State College, 1953), by Technical Conference on Petroleum Production (16th : 1952 : Pennsylvania State College), Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association, and Pennsylvania State College (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seventeenth Technical Conference on Petroleum Production [held October 28-30, 1953] : [papers] (Pennsylvania State University, 1954), by University Park Campus) Technical Conference on Petroleum Production (17th : 1953 : Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association, and University Park Campus Pennsylvania State University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nineteenth Technical Conference on Petroleum Production [held November 16-18, 1955] : [papers] (Pennsylvania State University, 1956), by University Park Campus) Technical Conference on Petroleum Production (19th : 1955 : Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association, and University Park Campus Pennsylvania State University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nitrogen gas in five oilfields on the Nesson anticline in North Dakota (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by L. C. Marchant, University of Wyoming, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydrogen sulfide poisoning as a hazard in the production of oil (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1945), by Sara J. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Assessment of enhanced recovery technology as a means for increasing total crude oil recovery in Texas (The Council, 1974), by E Alan Lohse, Gulf Universities Research Consortium, and Texas. Governor's Energy Advisory Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water flooding of oil sands in Butler and Greenwood Counties, Kans. (United States Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1956), by J. P. Powell and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of a nonionic detergent and citric acid for improving cleanout procedures of water-input wells in secondary oil-recovery projects (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1957), by Robert T. Johansen, H. N. Dunning, J. P. Powell, Oklahoma, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laboratory study of water encroachment in oil-filled sand columns (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1941), by Frank G. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secondary recovery of oil by water-flooding in fields of North Texas : supplement to R.I. 3906, History of water-flooding of oil sands in North Texas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1948), by Robert K. Guthrie, D. B. Taliaferro, and James W. Amyx (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and computer techniques for calculating performance of a five-spot waterflood two-phase flow (Bureau of Mines, 1963), by R. V. Higgins and A. J. Leighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waterflooding of oilfields in Montana (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1976), by Paul Biggs and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory evaluation of water additives for petroleum displacement (United States Bureau of Mines, 1957), by H. N. Dunning and Robert T. Johansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of oil viscosity on the recovery of oil by water flooding (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1955), by A. N. Fried (page images at HathiTrust)
• Displacement of petroleum from sand by detergent solutions (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1953), by H. N. Dunning, R. T. Johanson, and Lun Hsiao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Injection rates and pressures for water flooding mid-continent oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1949), by Peter Grandone and J. B. Holleyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory evaluation of flow characteristics of oil-producing sandstones in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by Eliot J. White, Oren C. Baptist, University of Wyoming, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Source of solids in injection waters, Wilmington Field, California (Bureau of Mines, 1975), by George L. Gates, H. J. Lechtenberg, and W. H. Caraway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improved method to predict multiphase waterflood performance for constant rates or pressures (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1975), by A. J. Leighton and Ralph V. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical and field waterflood performance, Kane Sand, Kane Oilfield, Elk County, Pa. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Leo A. Schrider, Harry R. Johnson, John R. Duda, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thermal-recovery project and two waterflood projects in Carter, Garvin, and Stephens counties, Okla., 1966 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by Kenneth H. Johnston, Kenneth R. Baskett, and Oklahoma Corporation Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The application of hydraulic fracturing in the recovery of oil by waterflooding : a summary (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1963), by James A. Wasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of waterfloodability of oilfields by pilot flooding (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1974), by James A. Wasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil-reservoir analysis and predicted recovery by waterflooding, Clinton Sand, Logan Oilfield, Hocking County, Ohio (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1965), by Dean W. Boley, W. K. Overbey, H. R. Johnson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Changing water-injection profiles by selective plugging : a field study (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by T. M. Garland, North Texas Oil and Gas Association, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optimum gas saturation for maximum oil recovery from displacement by water (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1974), by Carlon S. Land, Francis M. Carlson, Laramie Energy Research Center (U.S.), University of Wyoming, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secondary-recovery operations on the L. C. Bailey lease, Oil Springs pool, Magoffin County, Ky. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1958), by W. M. Nabors and C. E. Whieldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waterflood performance in stratified reservoirs : recovery as influenced by relative permeability curves and by continuously changing saturation (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by Ralph V. Higgins and A. J. Leighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secondary recovery of oil by waterflooding in Big Injun sand, Roane County, W. Va. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by C. E. Whieldon, Joseph Pasini, N. A. Caspero, and W. M. Nabors (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cost study of pumping versus flowing oil production from Appalachian waterfloods (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by R. L. Rough and Paul T. Bail (page images at HathiTrust)
• Method of predicting performance of five-spot waterfloods in stratified reservoirs using streamlines (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1962), by R. V. Higgins and A. J. Leighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospects for secondary recovery of oil by waterflooding : Mitchell and Berea Sands, Lower Newport Field, Newport Township, Washington County, Ohio (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by James A. Wasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reservoir study of the William Kaufman Lease Clover-Rush Run Oilfield, Roane County, W. Va. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Karl-Heinz Frohne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waterflooding of oilfields in Nebraska (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Joseph N. Harstead, Paul Biggs, and Donald P. Blasko (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation by filter methods of the quality of waters injected in waterfloods (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1964), by Kenneth H. Johnston and Joe L. Castagno (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effectiveness of sodium tripolyphosphate for improving injection rates of waterfloods (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1964), by Robert T. Johansen, R. J. Heemstra, and Layton Oil Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory oil-recovery tests with ultrasonically formed emulsions (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1969), by C. A. Komar, Harold A. W. Moore, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Potential oil recovery by waterflooding reservoirs being produced by primary methods (U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1970), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gas flood efficiency improvement by polymer injection (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1970), by Edward L. Burwell, Arlen E. Hunt, and United States. Bureau of Mines. Petroleum Research Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1958 / Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin No. 87 (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1959), by Alfred Hannam Bell and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1959 / Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin No. 88 (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1960), by Alfred Hannam Bell and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of waterflood performance : [pt.] IV. Influence of curtailments on recovery. (Urbana, 1958), by Walter Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of water-flooding on oil production from the McClosky sand, Dennison Township, Lawrence County, Illinois (Dept. of Registration and Education, Div. of the State Geological Survey, 1932), by Alfred Hannam Bell and Robert James Piersol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1974. Part I. Oil and Gas Developments (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1975), by Illinois State Geological Survey, Thomas F. Lawry, and Jacob Van Den Berg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1963. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1964), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois in 1955. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1960), by Donald. A. Pierre, Paul Adams Witherspoon, Virginia Harriet Kline, and A. H. Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois in 1956. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1960), by Donald A. Pierre, Virginia Harriet Kline, Alfred Hannam Bell, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois in 1957. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1960), by Carl W. Sherman, Virginia Harriet Kline, Alfred Hannam Bell, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1966. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1967), by Jacob Van den Berg, Richard F. Mast, T. F. Lawry, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1969. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1971), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water flooding in Illinois (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1952), by Paul Adams Witherspoon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trapping oil in a pore doublet. (State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Division of the State Geological Survey, 1956), by Walter Rose, Paul Adams Witherspoon, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of waterflood performance: [pt.] III. Use of network models. (Urbana, 1957), by Walter Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of water-flooding operations in Illinois oil pools to 1951 (Urbana, 1951), by Frederick Squires and Interstate Oil Compact Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of water flood operations in Illinois oil pools during 1951 (Urbana, 1953), by Paul Adams Witherspoon and Paul J. Shanor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of water flood operations in Illinois oil pools during 1952 / by Paul A. Witherspoon and members of the Illinois Secondary Recovery and Pressure Maintenance Study Committee. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1953), by P. A. Witherspoon, Interstate Oil Compact Commission, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secondary recovery operations in West Virginia to January 1, 1960, including petroleum reserves, oil in place, and saturations in West Virginia : [a report of the West Virginia Secondary Recovery Committee, and the Interstate Oil Compact Commission]. (Interstate Oil Compact Commission, 1960), by Interstate Oil Compact Commission. West Virginia Secondary Recovery Committee and West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois. (Urbana., 1933), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surfactant-enhanced alkaline flooding for light-oil recovery : annual report, 1992-1993 (U.S. Dept. of Energy ;, 1994), by Darsh T. Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology, and United States. Dept. of Energy. Bartlesville Project Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Target reservoirs for CO2 miscible flooding : final report (G.P.O., 1980), by John H. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of the Storms Pool Improved Waterflood Project ; topical report (United States Department of Energy, Bartlesville Project Office ;, 1986), by Douglass K. Norton, Dwight L. Dauben, United States. Department of Energy. Bartlesville Project Office, and Inc Keplinger Technology Consultants (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commercial scale demonstration [of] enhanced oil recovery by micellar-polymer flood : annual report for the period October, 1981-September, 1982 (Bartlesville Energy Technology Center] ;, 1983), by J. C. Howell and Bartlesville Energy Technology Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of water flood operations in Illinois oil pools during 1953 (Interstate Oil Compact Commission, 1954), by P. A. Witherspoon, Edwin G. Jackson, Interstate Oil Compact Commission, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1960. (Illinois State Geological Survey ;, 1961), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on water injectivity test, lease OCS-P 0241, well no. B-49-1, Dos Cuadras field, Santa Barbara channel, off California (U.S. Geological Survey, National Center], 1973), by Maurice V. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1961. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1962), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroleum industry in Illinois, 1962. (Illinois State Geological Survey, 1963), by Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Big Muddy Field Low Tension Flood Demonstration Project : third annual report, April, 1980-March, 1981 (U.S. Dept. of Energy ;, 1981), by J. G. Davis, W. C. Stewart, and Howard H. Ferrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water for oil-well flooding operations (The Pennsylvania State College, School of Mineral Industries, 1938), by Harlan Willis Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commercial scale demonstration enhanced oil recovery by micellar-polymer flood ([Oak Ridge, Tennessee] : Department of Energy [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and Institutional Relations], Technical Information Center, 1978-, 1978), by Marathon Oil Company, Bartlesville Energy Research Center, and United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electrolytic model studies as applied to water-flooding a shoestring sand (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1951), by William E. Eckard and Jack A. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)

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