Use of Biosurfactants in Oil Recovery [Reference work chapter]

Li, Guoqiang; McInerney, Michael J

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31421-1_364-1

Use of Biosurfactants in Oil Recovery [Reference work chapter]

Other · Fri Jan 06 04:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31421-1_364-1· OSTI ID:1604964

Li, Guoqiang ^[1]; McInerney, Michael J ^[2]

Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China); University of Oklahoma
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman OK (United States)

Biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery has the potential to recover large amounts of crude oil that remain entrapped in oil reservoirs after current oil recovery technologies reach their economic limit. Lipopeptides (surfactins and lichenysins), rhamnolipids, and other glycolipids generate the low interfacial tensions and the appropriate rock wettabilities needed to mobilize entrapped oil. Biosurfactants are active over a wide range of temperatures, pH values, and salinities found in many oil reservoirs and are effective at low concentrations. A number of laboratory experiments show that biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery is effective in recovering large amounts of entrapped oil. Several field trials show that in situ biosurfactant production is possible and recovers additional oil. Biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery has been difficult to scale-up to a reservoir-wide technology due to the lack of understanding of how best to stimulate biosurfactant production in the reservoir. In addition, the relationship between biosurfactant concentration and oil recovery is still unclear. Ex-situ biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery where the biosurfactant is added to the injection fluids has not been implemented on a large scale, most likely due to the high production costs of biosurfactants. Finally, multidisciplinary approaches are needed to move biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery from the laboratory to the reservoir.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Physical Biosciences Division

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-96ER20214

OSTI ID:: 1604964

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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