Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1353-1366

  Lazar, I ^a   Petrisor, I G ^b,c   Yen, T F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Environmental Forensics Journal   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced enhanced oil recovery; Alternative tertiary oil recovery; Improved oil recovery; In situ surfactant production; Microbial enhancement of petroleum recovery; Petroleum reservoir microbiology

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ALTERNATIVE TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; IN SITU SURFACTANT PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (MEOR); PETROLEUM RESERVOIR MICROBIOLOGY;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; MICROORGANISMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROFITABILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

TERTIARY RECOVERY;

EID: 36649020865     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916460701287714     Document Type: Article

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