
Theory and Practice in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
Description
Key Features
- Covers fundamental screening criteria and theories selective plugging and mobility control mechanisms
- Describes the basic effects on environmental parameters and the mechanics of simulation, including microbial growth kinetics
- Applies up to date practical applications proven in both the lab and the field
Readership
Production engineers, enhanced oil recovery researchers, graduate level petroleum engineering students
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Microbial Processes for Oil Recovery
- Subsurface Environment and Screening Criteria
- Lithology
- Porosity and Permeability
- Depth/Temperature/Pressure
- Salinity/pH
- Screening Criteria
- Microbiology for Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Ecology and Microbial Activities in Deep Subsurface
- Microbiology for Ex Situ Microbial Applications
- Microbial Products for Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Biomass, biofilm, biopolymers
- Biosurfactants
- Biogenic gases
- Solvents
- Strategies for Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Theory and Experiment
- Selective Plugging Mechanisms by Biomass Production
- Mobility Control Mechanisms by Biosurfactant Production
- Viscosity Alteration
- Alteration in Interfacial Tension
- Alteration in Wettability
- Biosurfactant Production, Adsorption, and Screening
- Biogenic Gas Generation
- Hydrocarbon Degradation
- Modeling and Simulation
- Field Applications
4.1 Biological Growth and Metabolism Kinetics
4.1.1 Basic Concept for Growth Rate
4.1.2 Effects of Environmental Parameters
4.1.3 Model for Metabolites Generation
4.2 Simulation of MEOR Mechanisms
4.2.1 Permeability Alteration
4.2.2 Interfacial Tension Reduction
4.2.3 Relative Permeability Change
4.2.4 Oil Viscosity Reduction
4.3 Application of Numerical Simulations
5.1 Types of Field Implementation
5.2 Field Trials
Product details
- No. of pages: 212
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2020
- Published: July 18, 2020
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780128204252
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128199831
About the Authors
Kun Lee
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Tae-Hyuk Kwon
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Taehyung Park
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Mook Jeong
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