MRIGlobal Taps Trapped Oil Reserves with Innovative, Customized Microbial Enhanced Recovery Processes

Current crude oil recovery processes leave nearly 65 percent of discovered oil trapped in the ground. Using natural microorganisms to generate by-products that help propel oil from existing wells, MRIGlobal is advancing Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) and delivering metagenomic innovations.

MRIGlobal’s MEOR approach recognizes the dramatic variance of conditions in oil reserves. MRIGlobal produces customized injections of the correct nutrients to spur the microbial communities to generate the by-products that enhance oil recovery.

 Our Capabilities:

• Oil reservoir sampling
• Growth of microbes and analysis of metabolic byproducts
• Metagenomic identification and functional analysis of microbial communities
• Methanogenesis 

 MRIGlobal’s MEOR Focus:

• Increasing oil recovery by 15 to 20 percent from existing wells
  
  
• Using cost-effective and environmentally sound methods
  
  
• Using spent reservoirs for carbon sequestration
  
  
• Developing a database for characterization of byproducts of microbial communities