Effective emulsification plays an important role in the treatment of marine oil spills. The
negative effects of chemical surfactants have necessitated a search for alternative …

Abundance of heavy crude oil resources and costly enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
techniques necessitate development of inexpensive heavy oil recovery methods. Microbial …

Oil spillage has serious adverse effects on marine environments. The degradation of crude
oil by microorganisms may be an effective and sustainable approach. In this study, the …

Bioaugmentation is an effective strategy used to speed up the bioremediation of marine oil
spills. In the present study, a highly efficient petroleum degrading bacterium (Pseudomonas …

Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a technique to utilize microorganisms or their
metabolic products to improve the recovery of crude oil from reservoir rock. It has a vital role …

The rise in petroleum demand may have aggravated recently as every industry heavily
depends on petroleum as the primary energy source. Traditional oil recovery methods leave …

In this study, the removal effect of free and immobilized bacteria on crude oil was
determined. Sodium alginate and polyvinyl alcohol were used as embedding agent, and …

There are obvious advantages of biosurfactants over chemical surfactants. The developing
shortage of oil and rapid increase of oil prices is putting pressure on oil companies to …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) as
MEOR is one of the techniques expected to be both economically feasible and …

Bioremediation has been attracting researchers' attention to develop as a technique to
remove the pollution of crude oil in the environment. However, more or stronger novel …