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Review on microbial enhanced oil recovery in China: mechanisms, potential disadvantages, and application of genetic engineering

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2021
Petroleum is becoming a limited commodity due to increasing global demands attributed to industrialization and the population boom. Because the conventional methods of oil recovery have exhaustively reached an economic limit, developing novel ...
Zi-Wei Bian, Xiang-Chun Zhang, Yi-Ying Wu, Lu-Sha Wei, Yi-Fei Wu, Hanning Wu   +5 more
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Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2010
Two-thirds of the oil ever found is still in the ground even after primary and secondary production. Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is one of the tertiary methods purported to increase oil recovery. Since 1946 more than 400 patents on MEOR have been issued, but none has gained acceptance by the oil industry.
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Genetically modified indigenous Pseudomonas aeruginosa drove bacterial community to change positively toward microbial enhanced oil recovery applications.

Journal of Applied Microbiology
AIMS Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is cost-effective and eco-friendly for oil exploitation. Genetically modified biosurfactants-producing high-yield strains are promising for ex-situ MEOR.
Feng Zhao, Baohang Wang, Qing-Feng Cui, Yu-Ting Wu   +3 more
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Comparison of mono-rhamnolipids and di-rhamnolipids on Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) applications.

Biotechnology progress (Print), 2020
Rhamnolipids (RML) have more effectiveness for specific uses according to their homologue proportions. Thus, the novelty of this work was to compare mono-rhamnolipids and di-rhamnolipids physicochemical properties on Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)
V. A. L. Rocha, L. V. A. de Castilho, Rui de Paula Vieira de Castro, D. Teixeira, A. Magalhães, J. G. C. Gomez, D. Freire   +6 more
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Extracellular Polymeric Substances Production by ZL-02 For Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2021
The use of polymers for plugging high-permeability zones is among the most important technologies for improving oil recovery; however, there are few studies concerning microbial enhanced oil recove...
Xiaosha Lin, Xue-Cheng Zheng, Rui Liu, Yi-Ping Wen, Mengdie Huang, Rui Gou, Yuru Yan, Yaoming Shi, Jia Tang   +8 more
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Microbial enhancement of oil recovery

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 1991
After decades of patent applications and questionable projects, well documented field tests of microbial enhancement of oil recovery are now being reported. These are based on the use of bacteria as agents underground to control fluid flow through selective plugging of channels in the oil reservoir, to enhance the release of oil from waterflood ...
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Influence of surface mineralogy on the activity of Halanaerobium sp. during microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)

, 2021
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is an economically attractive tertiary recovery technique and fermentative bacteria are frequently suggested for MEOR, partly because microbially produced organic acids have the potential for rock matrix dissolution.
F. Kögler, N. Dopffel, E. Mahler, F. S. Hartmann, D. Schulze-Makuch, F. Visser, Bernd Frommherz, A. Herold, H. Alkan   +8 more
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Microbial in-situ foam generation for enhanced oil recovery

The Physics of Fluids
In-situ foam generation can effectively improve reservoir heterogeneity and enhance oil recovery. In order to solve the problems of environmental pollution and difficult demulsification of emulsion caused by chemical methods, this study selected green ...
Jian Fu, Yulong Liu, Cenqian Zhang, Chen-Yue Wang, Shan-Shan Sun, Hao Dong, Y. She, Fan Zhang   +7 more
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Starting Up Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

2013
This chapter gives the reader a practical introduction into microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) including the microbial production of natural gas from oil. Decision makers who consider the use of one of these technologies are provided with the required scientific background as well as with practical advice for upgrading an existing laboratory in ...
Michael, Siegert, Jana, Sitte, Alexander, Galushko, Martin, Krüger   +3 more
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Novel approaches to microbial enhancement of oil recovery

Journal of Biotechnology, 2018
Microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) was shown to be feasible in a number of laboratory experiments and field trials. However, it has not been widely used in the oil industry because necessary conditions cannot always be easily established in an oil reservoir. Novel approaches to MEOR, which are based on newly discovered biosurfactant-mediated MEOR-
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