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CYCLIC STEAM STIMULATION

Cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) is a petroleum extraction technique which uses hot steam
injection into heavy-oil reservoirs or oil-sands deposits, through a common wellbore, used for
injecting hot steam downward and extraction of oil through pumping upward, in cycles. With
steam flooding, the oil will be thinned so that it will be easier to lift to production wells.

Source

Robson, Wishart. 2013. World Petroleum Council Guide : Unconventional


Oil ( Oil Sands ). World Petroleum Council : London

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