Abstract: A process for the recovery of hydrocarbons from oil field reservoirs, wherein dry pipeline quality natural gas, essentially entirely methane, is injected, stored and recycled in the wells of the reservoir to effect a significant recovery of the oil in the reservoir while storing and holding the gas for ultimate use only after the oil has been recovered from the reservoir, whereby the relatively scarce gas is utilized to its maximum extent and oil is produced which would be otherwise difficult or uneconomical to produce by prior known processes.