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Microbe-induced fluid viscosity variation: field-scale simulation, sensitivity and geological uncertainty

Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 2020
This study is intended to expand the scope of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) simulation studies from 1D to field scale focussing on fluid viscosity variation and heterogeneity that lacks in most MEOR studies.
Eric O. Ansah, Hung Vo Thanh, Yuichi Sugai, Ronald Nguele, Kyuro Sasaki   +4 more
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Development and Research Status of Heavy Oil Enhanced Oil Recovery

Geofluids, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Heavy oil is an important part of petroleum hydrocarbon energy. With the depletion of conventional crude oil reserves, successful and efficient exploitation of heavy oil resources is becoming increasingly important. This article focuses on the nine relatively mature heavy oil development technologies from the perspectives of the level of understanding ...
Liang Xue, Pengcheng Liu, Yun Zhang, Xiaofei Sun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A tuffaceous volcaniclastic turbidite bed of Early Miocene age in the Temburong Formation of Labuan, North‐West Borneo and its implications for the Proto‐South China Sea subduction in the Burdigalian

The Depositional Record, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 111-146, February 2021., 2021
A smectite bed in a sequence of distal, deep water turbidites and marine mudstones of the Temburong Formation on the island of Labuan, Sabah, North‐West Borneo is interpreted as an altered, re‐sedimented pyroclastic tuff which is geochemically of dacite‐rhyolite composition.
Stuart D. Burley, H. Tim Breitfeld, David ‘Stan’ Stanbrook, Robert J. Morley, Jochen Kassan, Mohamad Sukarno, D. Wantoro Wantoro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial biosurfactant research: time to improve the rigour in the reporting of synthesis, functional characterization and process development

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 147-170, January 2021., 2021
The demand for microbially produced surface‐active compounds for use in industrial processes and products is increasing. As such there has been a comparable increase in the number of publications relating to the characterisation of novel surface‐active compounds; novel producers of already characterised surface‐active compounds and production processes
Matthew Simon Twigg, Niki Baccile, Ibrahim M. Banat, Eric Déziel, Roger Marchant, Sophie Roelants, Inge N. A. Van Bogaert   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review on Biosurfactant Applications in the Petroleum Industry

International Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
The inadequacy of worldwide fossil fuel resources, combined with increasing energy demands, encourages global attention to either using alternative energy resources or improving the recovery factor and produce larger quantities from present reservoirs.
Wei Xi, Yuanye Ping, Masoome Agha Alikhani, Alireza Baghban   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolating, identifying and evaluating of oil degradation strains for the air-assisted microbial enhanced oil recovery process.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Due to the inefficient reproduction of microorganisms in oxygen-deprived environments of the reservoir, the applications of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) are restricted.
Mingming Cheng, Long Yu, Jianbo Gao, Guanglun Lei, Zaiwang Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selected Indonesian Microbes Potentials For MEOR

SPE Asia Pacific Improved Oil Recovery Conference, 1999
Abstract Oil recovery can be increased through the activities of microbes in a process known as Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR). MEOR technology has been implemented in a number of oil producing companies and has proven to have good prospect, environmental friendly and low cost.
S. Kadarwati, M. Udiharto, Noegroho Hadi Hs, Indria Doria   +3 more
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Use of Microorganisms in the Recovery of Oil From Recalcitrant Oil Reservoirs: Current State of Knowledge, Technological Advances and Future Perspectives

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
The depletion of oil resources, increasing global energy demand, the current low, yet unpredictable, price of oil, and increasing maturity of major oil fields has driven the need for the development of oil recovery technologies that are less costly and ...
Christina Nikolova, Tony Gutierrez
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial Surfactants: The Next Generation Multifunctional Biomolecules for Applications in the Petroleum Industry and Its Associated Environmental Remediation

Microorganisms, 2019
Surfactants are a broad category of tensio-active biomolecules with multifunctional properties applications in diverse industrial sectors and processes. Surfactants are produced synthetically and biologically.
Emmanuel O. Fenibo, Grace N. Ijoma, Ramganesh Selvarajan, Chioma B. Chikere   +3 more
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Biological Effectiveness of Constructed Consortia in MEOR

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, 2020
Kazakhstan is one of the producers of oil and gas in the world. Also, Kazakhstan is a country which uses traditional methods of oil development. These methods are not economically beneficial in the development of oil since two-thirds of the oil remains in the ground. In this regard, 16 indigenous microorganisms were studied from the production water of
Aliya YERNAZAROVA, Ratbek MAGMIYAYEV, Shattyk TAPESHOVA, Ulzhan SHAIMERDENOVA, Gulzhan KAIYRMANOVA   +4 more
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