Abstract
Biotechnology refers to the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products or any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use. This chapter discusses in detail the various aspects of Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). In MEOR processes, chosen microbial colonies that are specific to the crude oil type and the reservoir type are used to biotransform the crude oil constituents to products that enable enhanced flow of the crude oil to a production well. MEOR is one of the EOR techniques where bacteria and their by-products are utilized for oil mobilization in a reservoir. The prolonged interaction of metabolites with the oil in the reservoir changes the oil properties in such a way that immobile unrecoverable oil is converted into movable oil that can flow to the production wells increasing oil output accordingly.
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