Oilfield Terms Starting with "S"

Surfactant Flooding is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique in which a dilute solution of surface-active agents (surfactants) is injected into a reservoir to mobilize…

Swabbing is a well intervention technique used in the oil and gas industry to remove fluids from the wellbore, typically to initiate or increase the…

Sweep Efficiency is a dimensionless measure of the effectiveness of a displacement process in a petroleum reservoir. It quantifies the fraction of the reservoir volume…

Sweet gas is a fundamental classification in natural gas production and operations, referring to natural gas that contains very low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S)…