Research Status of Surfactant Producing Microbiology in MEOR: A Review

Abstract

Microbial enhanced oil recovery has high economic benefit, convenient operation, environment friendly, and many other advantages. With the deepening of research, technology continues to mature, its application in the oil industry is increasingly widespread. And the using biosurfactant is the main methods to improve the oil recovery in MEOR process. According to the different species of surfactant producing bacteria. Bacillus subtilis, Pseudonomas aeruginosa, Enterobacter Cloacae and other surfactant producing bacteria are briefly introduced in order to provide reference for related research.