A review on systematic approach for microbial enhanced oil recovery technologies: Opportunities and challenges

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, KH Vardhan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Oil is an indispensable ingredient for both food and energy in most of the countries. Due to
insufficient extraction process reduces the average oil recovery rate up to 30%. Enhanced …

Prospects of microbial enhanced oil recovery: Mechanisms and environmental sustainability

RS Lourdes, SY Cheng, KW Chew, Z Ma… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial biotechnology for enhancing oil recovery: current developments and future prospects

H Al-Sulaimani, S Joshi, Y Al-Wahaibi… - Biotechnol Bioinf …, 2011 - researchgate.net
It is anticipated that over 2 trillion barrels of conventional oil will remain in reservoirs
worldwide after conventional recovery methods have been exhausted. Other oil recovery …

Recent developments in microbial enhanced oil recovery

J Patel, S Borgohain, M Kumar, V Rangarajan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The world continues to rely heavily on petroleum as a primary energy source. However, a
great fraction of the oil-in-place remains inaccessible to traditional recovery means. This …

Use of microorganisms in the recovery of oil from recalcitrant oil reservoirs: Current state of knowledge, technological advances and future perspectives

C Nikolova, T Gutierrez - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Potential applications of microbial enhanced oil recovery to heavy oil

J Zhang, H Gao, Q Xue - Critical reviews in biotechnology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Heavy oil accounts for around one-third of total global oil and gas resources. The
progressive depletion of conventional energy reserves has led to an increased emphasis on …

Microbial enhanced oil recovery, a critical review on worldwide implemented field trials in different countries

M Safdel, MA Anbaz, A Daryasafar… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years that reaching oil price to its minimum amount has become a critical issue in
petroleum industry, microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a main topic of interest in …

Review on microbial enhanced oil recovery: Mechanisms, modeling and field trials

J Niu, Q Liu, J Lv, B Peng - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
After conventional oil recovery operations, abundant residual oil is still trapped in pore
space of complex capillary network in the reservoir. As a promising method of tertiary oil …

Applications of microbial-enhanced oil recovery technology in the past decade

CH Gao, A Zekri - Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The microbial-enhanced oil recovery method relies on microorganisms and their metabolic
products to mobilize residual oil. It is environmentally friendly and easy to operate. In the …

Isolation and study of microorganisms from oil samples for application in microbial enhanced oil recovery

EJ Gudiña, JFB Pereira, LR Rodrigues… - International …, 2012 - Elsevier
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is potentially useful to increment oil recovery from
a reservoir beyond primary and secondary recovery operations using microorganisms and …