Recent developments in microbial enhanced oil recovery

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 1539-1558

  Patel, Jay ^a   Borgohain, Subrata ^b   Kumar, Mayank ^c,e   Rangarajan, Vivek ^c   Somasundaran, Ponisseril ^d   Sen, Ramkrishna ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biosurfactants; EEOR; GEMEOR; MEOR techniques; Selective plugging; Wettability alteration

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRUDE OIL; OIL SPILLS; OIL WELL FLOODING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WETTING;

BIO-SURFACTANTS; ENHANCED-OIL RECOVERIES; ENZYME-ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROORGANISMS; GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED MICROORGANISM FOR MEOR PURPOSE; MICROBIAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY" TECHNIQUE; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; SELECTIVE PLUGGING; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84957032811     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.135     Document Type: Review

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