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MEOR Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is the use of microbes in petroleum reservoirs to enhance the amount of oil that can be produced. The microbes in MEOR are typically hydrocarbon-utilising, non-pathogenic micro-organisms that are naturally found in petroleum reservoirs or are introduced. As a result of their metabolic activity, the microbes excrete natural and non-toxic bio-products such as alcohols, gases, acids, surfactants and polymers.
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Their basic role in life is to recycle the components of living organisms, converting them to the nutrient chemicals used by plants in photosynthesis & chemosynthesis.
Shape of Microbes
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MICROORGANISMS
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The term microorganisms encompasses five major group of organisms. Viruses Fungi Algae Protozoa and bacteria
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MICROORGANISMS
microbes which includes fungi, algae and protozoa. The third division of micro organisms that can be
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Bacteria
Bacteria have two distinguished structural features that are: A rigid cell wall that determines the shape of the organism, which may be either cylindrical or spherical and those that are
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MICROBIAL PRODUCTS, THEIR ROLE IN ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY, AND SOME OF THE EFFECTS TO SOLVE PRODUCTION PROBLEM
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ADVANTAGES OF MEOR TECHNOLOGIES The injected bacteria and nutrient are inexpensive and easy to obtain and handle in the field. Economically attractive for marginally producing oil fields; a suitable alternative before the abandonment of marginal wells. According to a statistical evaluation (1995 in U.S.), 81% of all MEOR projects demonstrated a positive incremental increase in oil production and no decrease in oil production as a result of MEOR processes. The implementation of the process needs only minor modifications of the existing field facilities. It is less expensive to install and more easily applied than MEOR another EOR method.
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MEOR APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Some of the research prior to these MEOR projects were successful in the field of hydrocarbon-polluted environmental sites. Thus, the use of bio - surfactants in pipeline heavy oil as an oil in water emulsion and cleaning out tank sludges, the use of bacterial cells as de-emulsifiers, desulfurization, and