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    Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) uses microorganisms or their metabolites to improve recovery of residual oil through mechanisms like reducing oil-water interfacial tension, altering wettability, selectively plugging pores, and degrading long-chain hydrocarbons. Microorganisms can produce compounds like surfactants, acids, and gases that are also used in conventional EOR processes. While MEOR has advantages like being inexpensive and environmentally friendly, it also has disadvantages such as requiring specialized cultivation facilities for microbes and being limited to reservoirs with certain properties.

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    Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) uses microorganisms or their metabolites to improve recovery of residual oil through mechanisms like reducing oil-water interfacial tension, altering wettability, selectively plugging pores, and degrading long-chain hydrocarbons. Microorganisms can produce compounds like surfactants, acids, and gases that are also used in conventional EOR processes. While MEOR has advantages like being inexpensive and environmentally friendly, it also has disadvantages such as requiring specialized cultivation facilities for microbes and being limited to reservoirs with certain properties.

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    Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) uses microorganisms or their metabolites to improve recovery of residual oil through mechanisms like reducing oil-water interfacial tension, altering wettability, selectively plugging pores, and degrading long-chain hydrocarbons. Microorganisms can produce compounds like surfactants, acids, and gases that are also used in conventional EOR processes. While MEOR has advantages like being inexpensive and environmentally friendly, it also has disadvantages such as requiring specialized cultivation facilities for microbes and being limited to reservoirs with certain properties.

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    Enhanced Oil

    Recovery
    Lecture 9
    Microbial EOR

    Microbial EOR Methods

    Another tertiary method of oil recovery is microbial enhanced oil recovery,


    commonly known as MEOR, which nowadays is becoming an important and a
    rapidly developed tertiary production technology, which uses microorganisms or
    their metabolites to enhance the recovery of residual oil (Banat, 1995; Xu et al.,
    2009).
    Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
    Mechanisms
    Improvement of oil recovery through microbial actions can be performed through several
    mechanisms such as:

    1-Reduction of oil-water interfacial tension.

    2-Alteration of wettability by surfactant production and bacterial presence.

    3-Selective plugging by microorganisms and their metabolites.

    4-Oil viscosity reduction by gas production or degradation of long-chain saturated hydrocarbons.

    5-Production of acids which improves absolute permeability by dissolving minerals in the rock.
    MEOR
    Microorganisms can produce many of the same types of compounds
    that are used in conventional EOR processes to mobilize oil trapped in
    reservoirs and the only difference between EOR and some of the MEOR
    methods probably is the means by which the substances are introduced
    into the reservoir.
    Table (1)summarizes different microbial consortia, their
    related metabolites and applications in MEOR.
    MEOR
    MEOR advantages
    • The injected bacteria and nutrient are inexpensive and easy to obtain and handle in the field.

    • MEOR processes are economically attractive for marginally producing oil fields and are suitable
    alternatives before the abandonment of marginal wells.

    • Microbial cell factories need little input of energy to produce the MEOR agents.

    • Less modification of the existing field characteristics are required

    • Costs are not dependent on the global crude oil price.

    • Suited for carbonate oil reservoirs

    • Environmentally compatible.
    MEOR disadvantages
    • The oxygen deployed in aerobic MEOR can act as corrosive agent on non-resistant topside
    equipment and down-hole piping.

    • large amounts of sugar limiting its applicability in offshore platforms due to logistical
    problems.

    • Exogenous microbes require facilities for their cultivation.

    • Indigenous microbes need a standardized framework for evaluating microbial activity, e.g.
    specialized coring and sampling techniques.

    • Microbial growth is favored when: layer permeability is greater than 50 md; reservoir
    temperature is inferior to 80 0C, salinity is below 150 g/L and reservoir depth is less than
    Screening Criteria

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