Impact of an indigenous microbial enhanced oil recovery field trial on microbial community structure in a high pour-point oil reservoir

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 811-821

  Zhang, Fan ^a   She, Yue Hui ^b,c   Li, Hua Min ^d   Zhang, Xiao Tao ^a   Shu, Fu Chang ^b   Wang, Zheng Liang ^b   Yu, Long Jiang ^c   Hou, Du Jie ^a,e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e Beijing Bioscience Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Indigenous microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR); Microbial community; Oil reservoir; Stimulated microorganisms

Indexed keywords

CLONE LIBRARY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENRICHMENT EXPERIMENTS; FIELD TRIAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MONITORING METHODS; NATURAL OIL RESERVOIRS; OIL RESERVOIRS; POTENTIAL POPULATION; PRODUCTION WELLS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WELLS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

DNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONITORING; RESERVOIR;

ALISHEWANELLA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLONING; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INDIGENOUS MICROBIAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETROBACTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PSEUDOALCALIGENES; RESERVOIR;

BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALISHEWANELLA; PETROBACTER; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PSEUDOALCALIGENES;

EID: 84864630938     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3717-1     Document Type: Article

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