{"id":1115,"date":"2015-02-11T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?page_id=1115"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:53:41","slug":"microbial-enhanced-oil-recovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?page_id=1115","title":{"rendered":"Microbial enhanced oil recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a technology transfer UK industry-government sponsored project, aiming at developing and implementing a new technology to monitor water-injection chemistries to increase oil recovery through down-borehole bacterial activity. This technology would facilitate the flow of oil in deep underground reservoirs at high pressures <em>-extreme environment<\/em>s. We studied the anaerobic aquatic chemistry of geological systems and its link to microbial activity (ecophysiology). This project delivered a simpler, faster, cleaner, cheaper and more transportable\/transferable solvent extraction method; a robust solvent extraction GC\/FID method to fingerprint hydrocarbons in samples collected from partner&#8217;s bioreactors; a new method for collecting a suitable aqueous sample to be used in molecular fingerprinting and biomarker discovery MEOR studies; a precise and accurate GC\/Mass Spectrometry study of partner&#8217;s bioreactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a technology transfer UK industry-government sponsored project, aiming at developing and implementing a new technology to monitor water-injection chemistries to increase oil recovery through down-borehole bacterial activity. This technology would facilitate the flow of oil in deep underground reservoirs at high pressures -extreme environments. 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