Microbial enhancement of oil recovery - recent advances. Proceedings of the 1992 international conference on microbial enhanced oil recovery / Микробиологическое повышение нефтеотдачи пластов - последние достижения Материалы конференции 1992 г.

During recent years, systematic, scientific, and engineering effort by researchers in the United States and abroad, has established the scientific basis for Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) technology. In the past, basic research was left to the laboratory, and field use was generally limited to an uninformed oil producer using microbes without knowing what to expect. The merger of these two groups--researchers and producers--is fostering acceptance of MEOR technology through the petroleum community. The applicability of MEOR technologies, its economic feasibility, and indications for future directions have become essential elements of current MEOR research programs. <...>