Sustainable Energy Solutions Through Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 73
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) technology is a "green and low-carbon" oil production technology that utilizes the unique oil production functions of oil reservoir microorganisms and their metabolites in order to change the physical properties of crude oil or improve the reservoir environment to achieve an increase in oil production from oil wells. There are rich and diverse microbial resources in oil reservoirs, which can be formed into sustainable oilfield microbial-based flooding agents through human intervention and external nutrient activation. Therefore, the microbial-based oil production technology that utilizes the resourcefulness of oil reservoir microorganisms will be the inevitable path for the development of future green and low-carbon oil production technologies, with high academic research value and engineering application prospects. In order to solve the bottlenecks of the current microbial enhancement of oil recovery technology, we hope to generate more academic reports in the areas of microbial activation flooding agents, oil reservoir microbial mutual interaction and cooperation to enhance oil production, and the exploration of unique microorganisms to directly and indirectly increase oilfield recovery rate.
Dr. Kai Cui
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- utilization of energy-efficient microorganisms for resource recovery
- green and low-carbon oil production technology
- nutrient activators
- petroleum reservoir microbiological ecosystem
- microbe-based composite oil-pushing agent technology
- microbe selection
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