WANG WeiDong; WEI Bin; TAN YunXian and WANG XiuLin
, 2004, 31(6): 964-0.
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The progress in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is briefly viewed and the key problems confronted in MEOR are discussed. It is believed that the major factors retarding ongoing MEOR exist in MEOR itself other than conditions of oil reservoirs, and two matters should be especially took into account. One is the impercipient realization of microbial ecology in oil reservoirs, in which only a small part of microorganisms in oil reservoirs, approximately 0.1%-10%, was analyzed due to the traditional method of the pure culture identification, and consequently, the exact number of microbial species in production water, the amount of various microorganisms and the active communities in oil reservoirs could not be obtained by the traditional method. The other is limitation existing in core flooding procedures, in which procedures and instruments as well as man-made core samples for chemical flooding were applied to evaluate MEOR, consequently, the practical results of MEOR could not be obtained due to these procedures. The parameters from core flooding in this case, therefore, should not be directly used in field trial. The key problems existing in MEOR and the solutions are finally concluded.