Recent advances and prospects in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)-Movement towards practical EOR technology-

Recent Advances in Surfactant EOR

Ultralow interfacial tension in enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

Increasing energy demands require improved methods for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Chemical EOR methods are most promising for maximum oil recovery, but, so far, limited due to high costs of chemicals and environmental concerns. Therefore, there is a huge interest in optimizing procedures for chemical EOR that minimize the amount of chemicals needed and rely on natural compounds, thus decreasi...

Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Biosurfactant Produced by Alcaligenes faecalis

A bacterial strain (designated as Alcaligenes sp. MS-103) isolated from oil sample of the Aghajari oilfield in the south of Iran, was able to produce an effective extracellular lipopolysaccharide biosurfactant (1.2±0.05 g/l) on molasses as a sole carbon source. The highest surface tension reduction to level 20 mN/m was achieved by biosurfactant produced by cells grown on molasses under optimum ...

Advances in Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes

Towards the practical application of recent advances.

Correspondence to Prof David W Yates, Emergency Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK 'For those interested in the advances in this branch of medical science, and especially those about to enter this field of study, there could be no better starting-off ground than the present volume, in which the articles are written by experts and by those who have contribute...