Development of a microbial process for the recovery of petroleum oil from depleted reservoirs at 91-96°C

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 165, Issue C, 2014, Pages 274-278

  Arora, Preeti ^a   Ranade, Dilip R ^a   Dhakephalkar, Prashant K ^a  

^a AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Core flood; Hyperthermophile; Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR); Sand pack

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; FATTY ACIDS; FLOODS; NUTRIENTS; OIL SHALE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; UREA; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

COREFLOOD; DEPLETED RESERVOIRS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYPERTHERMOPHILES; MICROBIAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (MEOR); SAND PACK; SEQUENCING ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

PETROLEUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PETROLEUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84922549284     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.109     Document Type: Article

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