A review study: Development of microbial enhancing oil recovery technology

DOI

10.2991/emcpe-16.2016.158How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MEOR, exogenous, indigenous, pilot application, field test, microbes

Abstract

There are over 2 trillion barrels of conventional oil still remain reservoirs worldwide after conventional recovery methods have been exhausted. Based on these many techniques that involved in tertiary oil recovery were developed. However, most of these technologies restrict the further development of oilfields because of their economic limitations. Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) technique has been proposed for many years as a cheap and effective alternative to enhance oil recovery as its different processes generally do not depend on oil prices. MEOR pilot tests have been applied in many oilfields around the worlds. However, this method did not receive a great attention in the petroleum industry because of its technical bottlenecks. This paper is mainly focused on discussing the basic concept, mechanism, advantages, problems and further trends of MEOR.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenfeng Song
AU  - Desheng Ma
AU  - Kangyun Wu
AU  - Xiaofang Wei
AU  - Ying Xu
PY  - 2016/08
DA  - 2016/08
TI  - A review study: Development of microbial enhancing oil recovery technology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Environment, Materials, Chemistry and Power Electronics
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 619
EP  - 625
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcpe-16.2016.158
DO  - 10.2991/emcpe-16.2016.158
ID  - Song2016/08
ER  -