Potential Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes: A Critical Analysis

Abstract

This paper summarizes a critical review of possible microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) methods and mechanisms to identify the most plausible utilization of microbial technology to enhance oil recovery. This paper is intended to stimulate discussion about broad applications of MEOR to field-wide improvement of oil displacement and recovery.

Visualização Tridimensional Do Deslocamento De Óleo Por Suspensões De Microcápsulas Flexíveis Em Meios Porosos

“…Na avaliação da produção de uma jazida de petróleo, no que se refere ao deslocamento de óleo, grande parte dos estudos disponíveis na literatura são realizados em escala macroscópica (Gray et al, 2008;Meybodi et al, 2011;Meybodi et al, 2011a;Guillen et al, 2012a;Sun, 2016 …”

Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

“…In microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR), bacteria are regularly used because they show several practical features (Nielsen et al, 2010). Several publications state that oil recovery through microbial action takes place due to several mechanisms as follows Bryant et al 1989;Chisholm et al 1990;Sarkar et al 1994;Desouky et al 1996;Delshad et al 2002;Feng et al 2002;Gray et al 2008;Nielsen et al, 2010):…”

“…Particularly, the two first mechanisms are believed to have the greatest effect on improving oil recovery Bryant et al, 1989;Chisholm et al, 1990;Sarkar et al, 1994;Desouky et al, 1996;Delshad et al, 2002;Feng et al, 2002;Gray et al, 2008;Nielsen et al, 2010).…”

CFD Simulation of Biosurfactant Flooding into a Micromodel for Enhancing the Oil Recovery

“…MEOR operations have many advantages such as easy application [4], easy to handle, economic attraction and less expensive set up [5], and also low energy input requirement [6]. MEOR methods have great potential in carbonate reservoirs [4], and specially by reducing the surface tension [7] can increase the oil recovery factor [8].…”