Microbial enhanced-oil-recovery technologies: A review of the past, present, and future

SPE Production and Operations Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 524-534

  Maudgalya, Saikrishna ^a   Knapp, Roy M ^b   McInerney, Michael J ^c  

^a ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Atlas Wireline Services

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (MEOR); OIL INDUSTRY; POST TREATMENT ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLOOD CONTROL; INVESTMENTS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOVERY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 34250791710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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