Benefits

• Decrease of drilling fluids with chemical and radioactive waste as less wells need to be decommissioned.

• Less CO2-emissions as a result of less (heavy) truck transport, among others.

• Incentive for new production possibilities which will lead to a decrease of negative effects of earthquakes by gas exploration (preventive instead of reactive).

• Nearly complete depletion of the oil reservoir; as a result the total oil reserves will be increased.

• More efficient production which makes it possible to drain the production field in a shorter amount of time.

• Combination of injection and production in a single well, which could limit the total amount of required wells for a field with the benefit of re-injecting the production water into the same well.

• Injection of biodegradable additives and the underground generation of steam, which makes it possible to separate the oil and water for most part in the reservoir; as a result no major infrastructural conveyor network is needed for the supply of steam and the drainage of production water.

• Simple re-use of the well for sustainable geothermal energy.