Oil recovery

Oil recovery refers to the cleaning and recovery methods after an oil spill:

• Fast oil recovery
• See also: Bottsand-class oil recovery ship, Skimmer, Oil Spill Eater II, Oil Spill Response Limited

or a form of tertiary (sometimes: improved secondary) recovery of crude oil from primary oil reserves:

• Enhanced oil recovery
  • Microbial enhanced oil recovery
  • Solar thermal enhanced oil recovery

Alternatively it may simply be used as a euphemism for:

• petroleum extraction and
• oil drilling