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Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery<\/b> (MEOR) is a biological based technology<\/a> consisting in manipulating function or structure, or both, of microbial environments existing in oil reservoirs<\/a>. The ultimate aim of MEOR is to improve the recovery of oil<\/a> entrapped in porous media while increasing economic profits. MEOR is a tertiary oil extraction<\/a> technology allowing the partial recovery of the commonly residual two-thirds of oil, thus increasing the life of mature oil reservoirs. [More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is a biological based technology consisting in manipulating function or structure, or both, of microbial environments existing in oil reservoirs. The ultimate aim of MEOR is to improve the recovery of oil entrapped in porous media while increasing economic profits. MEOR is a tertiary oil extraction technology allowing the partial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":365,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6rw5S-5k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1115,"url":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?page_id=1115","url_meta":{"origin":330,"position":0},"title":"Microbial enhanced oil recovery","author":"Ernesto Hernandez","date":"February 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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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