Laboratory Investigation of Indigenous Consortia TERIJ-188 for Incremental Oil Recovery.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial Profile modification is an efficient process which brings the alteration in permeability of the porous media of the reservoir by selective plugging which eventually recover the residual oil. It is an advantageous and feasible method for residual oil recovery from high permeability zones of the reservoir. In this study, indigenous bacterial consortia, TERIJ-188 was developed from Gujarat oil fields. TERIJ-188 was identified as Thermoanaerobacter sp., Thermoanaerobacter brockii, Thermoanaerobacter italicus, Thermoanaerobacter mathranii, Thermoanaerobacter thermocopriae. The novelty of consortia was that it produces biomass (850 mg l^-1), bio-surfactant (500 mg l^-1), and volatile fatty acids (495 mg l^-1) at 70°C in the span of 10 days, w

SUBMITTER: Sharma N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6189299 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature