Primary oil recovery is the first stage of hydrocarbon production in which a reservoir uses its natural energy to force hydrocarbon to its wellbore. Secondary oil recovery comes to play when hydrocarbons can no longer be further produced by natural…
Biosurfactant is an important amphiphilic microbial product, which plays an important role in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) by reducing crude oil-water interfacial tension (IFT), emulsification and wettability alternation. Compared with…
Primary oil recovery is the first stage of hydrocarbon production in which a reservoir uses its natural energy to force hydrocarbon to its wellbore. Secondary oil recovery comes to play when hydrocarbons can no longer be further produced by natural…
Souring induced by sulfate reducing microorganisms (SRM) represents a severe problem in the petroleum industry. In addition to conventional biocides and nitrate, alternative SRM inhibitors such as molybdate have been proposed recently for controlling…
The use of functional microbial strains is an emerging strategy for exploiting heavy oil reserves. The aim of this study was to obtain bacterial strains potentially applicable in enhanced heavy oil recovery. A biosurfactant-producing and…