Microbial Enhancement of Oil Recovery - Recent Advances (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Microbial Enhancement of Oil Recovery - Recent Advances 4
Copyright Page 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
PREFACE 10
Part I: Introduction 12
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Fourth International MEOR Conference 12
Part II: Plenary Address 18
Chapter 2. "M.O.R.E." to M.E.O.R.: An Overview of Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery 18
Part III: SELECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROBIAL SYSTEMS 28
Chapter 3. Use of Natural Microflora, Electron Acceptors and Energy Sources for Enhanced Oil Recovery 28
Chapter 4. Bug Rock: Bacteriogenic Mineral Precipitation Systems for Oil Patch Use 38
Chapter 5. Chemical Markers of Induced Microbial Transformations in Crude Oils 48
Chapter 6. Characterization of Xanthan Gum Degrading Enzymes from a Heat-stable, Salt-tolerant Bacterial Consortium 66
Chapter 7. Subsurface Application of Alcaligenes eutrophus for Plugging of Porous Media 76
Chapter 8. Halotolerant and Extremely Halophilic Oil-oxidizing Bacteria in Oil Fields 90
Chapter 9. The Use of Slime-forming Bacteria to Enhance the Strength of the Soil Matrix 100
Part IV: BEHAVIOR OF MICROBIAL SYSTEMS ON POROUS MEDIA 108
Chapter 10. Parameters Affecting Microbial Oil Mobilization in Porous Media 108
Chapter 11. Behavior of Microbial Culture Product (PARA-BACR) Isolates in Anaerobic Environments 118
Chapter 12. Aqueous Microbial Biosurfactant Solutions Exhibiting Ultra-low Tension at Oil-water Interfaces 126
Chapter 13. The Compatibility of Biosurfactants on Degassed Oil and the Displacement Efficiency of Biosurfactant/Sulfonate - Alkaline - Polymer System 138
Chapter 14. Comparative Analysis of Microbially Mediated Oil Recovery by Surfactants Produced by Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis 154
Chapter 15. Noninvasive Methodology to Study the Kinetics of Microbial Growth and Metabolism in Subsurface Porous Materials 162
Chapter 16. Adhesion of Microbial Cells to Porous Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Solid Substrata 170
Part V: MODELING OF MEOR 182
Chapter 17. A Mathematical Model for Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery Process 182
Chapter 18. Effect of Hydrophobicity of the Solid Substratum on Oil Displacement in the Hele-Shaw Model 198
Part VI: FIELD APPLICATIONS 208
Chapter 19. Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Pilot, Payne County, Oklahoma 208
Chapter 20. Microbial Hydraulic Acid Fracturing 218
Chapter 21. A Pilot Test of EOR by In-Situ Microorganism Fermentation in the Daqing Oilfield 242
Chapter 22. The Application of Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery to Trinidadian Oil Wells 256
Chapter 23. MEOR, Recent Field Trials in Romania: Reservoir Selection, Type of Inoculum, Protocol for Well Treatment and Line Monitoring 276
Chapter 24. Microbial-Enhanced Waterflooding Field Pilots 300
Chapter 25. Microbial Characteristics and Metabolic Activity of Bacteria from Venezuelan Oil Wells 318
Chapter 26. A Nutrient Control Process for Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications 330
Chapter 27. Characteristics of Enriched Cultures and their Application to MEOR Field Tests 346
Chapter 28. On-site Bioaugmentation Treatment of Petroleum Tank Bottom Wastes: A Case Study 360
Chapter 29. Six Years of Paraffin Control and Enhanced Oil Recovery with the Microbial Product, Para-Bac™ 366
Chapter 30. Causes and Control of Microbially Induced Souring 374
Chapter 31. Additional Oil Production During Field Trials in Russia 384
Chapter 32. Isolation of Thermophilic Bacteria from a Venezuelan Oil Field 394
Part VII: POTENTIAL OF MEOR 402
Chapter 33. The Potential for MEOR from Carbonate Reservoirs: Literature Review and Recent Research 402
Chapter 34. Using Bacteria to Improve Oil Recovery from Arabian Fields 408
Chapter 35. On Towards the Real World 428
Part VIII: ABSTRACTS 438
Chapter 36. Comparison of the Properties of Commercial Xantham Gum with a Xanthan Gum Produced by Xanthomonas campestri™ Using Lactose as Sole Source of Carbon 438
Chapter 37. A Mathematical Model to Optimize Fermentation in Xanthornonas campestris 439
Chapter 38. Thermophilic Bacteria from Petroleum Reservoirs 440
INDEX 442