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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

An Exogenous Surfactant-Producing Bacillus subtilis Facilitates Indigenous Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery.

Peike Gao, Guoqiang Li, Yanshu Li, Yan Li, Huimei Tian, Yansen Wang, Jiefang Zhou, Ting Ma

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peike GaoKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Guoqiang LiKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Yanshu LiKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Yan LiKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Huimei TianKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Yansen WangKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Jiefang ZhouKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
Ting MaKey Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study used an exogenous lipopeptide-producing Bacillus subtilis to strengthen the indigenous microbial enhanced oil recovery (IMEOR) process in a water-flooded reservoir in the laboratory. The microbial processes and driving mechanisms were investigated in terms of the changes in oil properties and the interplay between the exogenous B. subtilis and indigenous microbial populations. The exogenous B. subtilis is a lipopeptide producer, with a short growth cycle and no oil-degrading ability. The B. subtilis facilitates the IMEOR process through improving oil emulsification and accelerating microbial growth with oil as the carbon source. Microbial community studies using quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing revealed that the exogenous B. subtilis could live together with reservoir microbial populations, and did not exert an observable inhibitory effect on the indigenous microbial populations during nutrient stimulation. Core-flooding tests showed that the combined exogenous and indigenous microbial flooding increased oil displacement efficiency by 16.71%, compared with 7.59% in the control where only nutrients were added, demonstrating the application potential in enhanced oil recovery in water-flooded reservoirs, in particular, for reservoirs where IMEOR treatment cannot effectively improve oil recovery.

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Bacillus subtilishigh-throughput sequencingmicrobial communitymicrobial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)stimulationsurfactants

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