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Gao P, Li Y, Tian H, Li G, Zhao F, Xia W, Pan X, Gu JD, Le J, Jia C, Ma T. Bacterial and Archaeal Community Distribution in Oilfield Water Re-injection Facilities and the Influences from Microorganisms in Injected Water. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2022; 84:1011-1028. [PMID: 34845558 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01933-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Water flooding is widely employed for oil production worldwide. However, there has never been a systematic investigation of the microbial communities occurring in oilfield water re-injection facilities. Here, we investigated the distribution of bacterial and archaeal communities in water re-injection facilities of an oilfield, and illustrated the combined influences of environmental variation and the microorganisms in injected water on the microbial communities. Bacterial communities from the surface injection facilities were dominated by aerobic or facultative anaerobic Betaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Flavobacteria, whereas Clostridia, Deltaproteobacteria, Anaerolineae, and Synergistia predominated in downhole of the injection wells, and Gammaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, and Epsilonproteobacteria predominated in the production wells. Methanosaeta, Methanobacterium, and Methanolinea were dominant archaea in the injection facilities, while Methanosaeta, Methanomethylovorans, and Methanoculleus predominated in the production wells. This study also demonstrated that the microorganisms in injected water could be easily transferred from injection station to wellheads and downhole of injection wells, and environmental variation and diffusion-limited microbial transfer resulted from formation filtration were the main factors determining microbial community assembly in oil-bearing strata. The results provide novel information on the bacterial and archaeal communities and the underlying mechanisms occurring in oilfield water re-injection facilities, and benefit the development of effective microbiologically enhanced oil recovery and microbiologically prevented reservoir souring programs.
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- Peike Gao
- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China
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- College of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China
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- Environmental Engineering, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, 515063, Guangdong, China
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- Daqing Oilfield Company Ltd Exploration and Development Research Institute, Daqing, 163000, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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Bedoya K, Niño J, Acero J, Jaimes-Prada R, Cabarcas F, Alzate JF. Metagenomic Analysis of Biocide-Treated Neotropical Oil Reservoir Water Unveils Microdiversity of Thermophile Tepidiphilus. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741555. [PMID: 34790180 PMCID: PMC8591294 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.741555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microorganisms are capable of colonizing extreme environments like deep biosphere and oil reservoirs. The prokaryotes diversity in exploited oil reservoirs is composed of indigenous microbial communities and artificially introduced microbes. In the present work, high throughput sequencing techniques were applied to analyze the microbial community from the injected and produced water in a neotropical hyper-thermophile oil reservoir located in the Orinoquia region of Colombia, South America. Tepidiphilus is the dominant bacteria found in both injection and produced waters. The produced water has a higher microbial richness and exhibits a Tepidiphilus microdiversity. The reservoir injected water is recycled and treated with the biocides glutaraldehyde and tetrakis-hydroxymethyl-phosphonium sulfate (THPS) to reduce microbial load. This process reduces microbial richness and selects a single Tepidiphilus genome (T. sp. UDEAICP_D1) as the dominant isolate. Thermus and Hydrogenobacter were subdominants in both water systems. Phylogenomic analysis of the injection water dominant Tepidiphilus positioned it as an independent branch outside T. succinatimandens and T. thermophilus lineage. Comparative analysis of the Tepidiphilus genomes revealed several genes that might be related to the biocide-resistant phenotype and the tolerance to the stress conditions imposed inside the oil well, like RND efflux pumps and type II toxin-antitoxin systems. Comparing the abundance of Tepidiphilus protein-coding genes in both water systems shows that the biocide selected Tepidiphilus sp. UDEAICP_D1 genome has enriched genes annotated as ABC-2 type transporter, ABC transporter, Methionine biosynthesis protein MetW, Glycosyltransferases, and two-component system NarL.
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- Katherine Bedoya
- Facultad de Medicina, Centro Nacional de Secuenciación Genómica - CNSG, Sede de Investigación Universitaria - SIU, Universidad de Antioquia -UdeA, Medellín, Colombia
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- Centro de Innovación y Tecnología ICP, Ecopetrol S.A, Gerencia de Operaciones, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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- Centro de Innovación y Tecnología ICP, Ecopetrol S.A, Gerencia de Operaciones, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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- Centro de Innovación y Tecnología ICP, Ecopetrol S.A, Gerencia de Operaciones, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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- Facultad de Medicina, Centro Nacional de Secuenciación Genómica - CNSG, Sede de Investigación Universitaria - SIU, Universidad de Antioquia -UdeA, Medellín, Colombia.,Grupo SISTEMIC, Ingeniería Electrónica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia - UdeA, Medellín, Colombia
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- Facultad de Medicina, Centro Nacional de Secuenciación Genómica - CNSG, Sede de Investigación Universitaria - SIU, Universidad de Antioquia -UdeA, Medellín, Colombia
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Gao P, Li Y, Tan L, Guo F, Ma T. Composition of Bacterial and Archaeal Communities in an Alkali-Surfactant-Polyacrylamide-Flooded Oil Reservoir and the Responses of Microcosms to Nutrients. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2197. [PMID: 31611855 PMCID: PMC6777151 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The microbial communities in alkali-surfactant-polyacrylamide-flooded (ASP-flooded) oil reservoirs have rarely been investigated compared to those in water-flooded oil reservoirs. Here, the bacterial and archaeal communities in an ASP-flooded reservoir and the adjacent water-flooded block, and responses of the microbial communities in microcosms to nutrients were investigated by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and cultivation. Compared with the water-flooded block, both the bacterial and archaeal communities inhabiting the ASP-flooded block had lower Sobs indices (91:232 and 34:55, respectively), lower Shannon indices (1.296:2.256 and 0.845:1.627, respectively) and higher Simpson indices (0.391:0.248 and 0.678:0.315, respectively). Halomonas (58.4-82.1%) and Anoxynatronum (14.5-18.2%) predominated in the ASP-flooded production wells, and were less than 0.05% in the bacterial communities of the adjacent water-flooded production wells, which were dominated by Pseudomonas and Thauera. Methanobacterium accounted for 65.0-94.5% of the archaeal communities inhabiting the ASP-flooded production wells, and Methanosaeta (36.7-94.5%) dominated the adjacent water-flooded production wells. After nutrients stimulation, the quantity of cultivable microorganisms increased from 103/mL to 107/mL. Community analysis indicated that the relative abundances of some species that belonged to Halomonas and Pseudomonas obviously increased, yet there were no oil emulsification or dispersion and changes of surface tension of the water-oil mixture. In addition, 6 alkali-tolerating strains showing 98% similarity of 16S rRNA genes with those of Halomonas alkalicola and Halomonas desiderata and 2 strains with 99% similarity with Pseudomonas stutzeri gene were isolated from the nutrients stimulated brines. In summary, this study indicated that Halomonas, Anoxynatronum, and Methanobacterium were dominant populations in the ASP-flooded reservoir, the extreme environment decreased microbial diversity, and restricted microbial growth and metabolisms.
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- Peike Gao
- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
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- The Second Oil Production Plant, PetroChina Daqing Oilfield Limited Company, Daqing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Wang X, Jiang L, Gai Z, Tao F, Tang H, Xu P. The plasticity of indigenous microbial community in a full-scale heavy oil-produced water treatment plant. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2018; 358:155-164. [PMID: 29990802 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.06.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Indigenous microbial communities are main and promising performers for bioremediation due to their excellent adaptability, degradation capability, and inherent plasticity. Treating heavy oil-produced water (HOPW) is a challenge owing to the high recalcitrance and heterogeneity of chemicals it contains. A full-scale HOPW treatment plant was built at a capacity of 10,000 m3/d with the indigenous microbial community. After the treatment, the outlet water reached the design standard. The microbial community structures in all treatment stages were analyzed by using Illumina MiSeq 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The composition of microbial community changed greatly with the changes in environmental conditions, especially with the only artificially regulated parameter of dissolved oxygen. In the anaerobic stage, the community converted the recalcitrant chemical oxygen demand to biological oxygen demand (BOD), and played a major role in enhancing the biodegradability of HOPW. During the aerobic stage, the community mainly mineralized BOD. These results suggest that the structures of indigenous microbial community differed in different treatment stages to accomplish the corresponding functions. Based on these findings, it is proposed that exploiting the plasticity of microbial communities for bioremediation is feasible, especially treating wastewater with varied components.
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- Xiaoyu Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- Jinuson Bioengineering Co., Ltd., Daqing 163161, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- Jinuson Bioengineering Co., Ltd., Daqing 163161, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China.
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Liang B, Zhang K, Wang LY, Liu JF, Yang SZ, Gu JD, Mu BZ. Different Diversity and Distribution of Archaeal Community in the Aqueous and Oil Phases of Production Fluid From High-Temperature Petroleum Reservoirs. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:841. [PMID: 29755446 PMCID: PMC5934436 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To get a better knowledge on how archaeal communities differ between the oil and aqueous phases and whether environmental factors promote substantial differences on microbial distributions among production wells, we analyzed archaeal communities in oil and aqueous phases from four high-temperature petroleum reservoirs (55–65°C) by using 16S rRNA gene based 454 pyrosequencing. Obvious dissimilarity of the archaeal composition between aqueous and oil phases in each independent production wells was observed, especially in production wells with higher water cut, and diversity in the oil phase was much higher than that in the corresponding aqueous phase. Statistical analysis further showed that archaeal communities in oil phases from different petroleum reservoirs tended to be more similar, but those in aqueous phases were the opposite. In the high-temperature ecosystems, temperature as an environmental factor could have significantly affected archaeal distribution, and archaeal diversity raised with the increase of temperature (p < 0.05). Our results suggest that to get a comprehensive understanding of petroleum reservoirs microbial information both in aqueous and oil phases should be taken into consideration. The microscopic habitats of oil phase, technically the dispersed minuscule water droplets in the oil could be a better habitat that containing the indigenous microorganisms.
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- Bo Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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Succession of microbial communities and changes of incremental oil in a post-polymer flooded reservoir with nutrient stimulation. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:2007-2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8766-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Li XX, Yang T, Mbadinga SM, Liu JF, Yang SZ, Gu JD, Mu BZ. Responses of Microbial Community Composition to Temperature Gradient and Carbon Steel Corrosion in Production Water of Petroleum Reservoir. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2379. [PMID: 29259586 PMCID: PMC5723327 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Oil reservoir production systems are usually associated with a temperature gradient and oil production facilities frequently suffer from pipeline corrosion failures. Both bacteria and archaea potentially contribute to biocorrosion of the oil production equipment. Here the response of microbial populations from the petroleum reservoir to temperature gradient and corrosion of carbon steel coupons were investigated under laboratory condition. Carbon steel coupons were exposed to production water from a depth of 1809 m of Jiangsu petroleum reservoir (China) and incubated for periods of 160 and 300 days. The incubation temperatures were set at 37, 55, and 65°C to monitoring mesophilic, thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms associated with anaerobic carbon steel corrosion. The results showed that corrosion rate at 55°C (0.162 ± 0.013 mm year-1) and 37°C (0.138 ± 0.008 mm year-1) were higher than that at 65°C (0.105 ± 0.007 mm year-1), and a dense biofilm was observed on the surface of coupons under all biotic incubations. The microbial community analysis suggests a high frequency of bacterial taxa associated with families Porphyromonadaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, and Spirochaetaceae at all three temperatures. While the majority of known sulfate-reducing bacteria, in particular Desulfotignum, Desulfobulbus and Desulfovibrio spp., were predominantly observed at 37°C; Desulfotomaculum spp., Thermotoga spp. and Thermanaeromonas spp. as well as archaeal members closely related to Thermococcus and Archaeoglobus spp. were substantially enriched at 65°C. Hydrogenotrophic methanogens of the family Methanobacteriaceae were dominant at both 37 and 55°C; acetoclastic Methanosaeta spp. and methyltrophic Methanolobus spp. were enriched at 37°C. These observations show that temperature changes significantly alter the microbial community structure in production fluids and also affected the biocorrosion of carbon steel under anaerobic conditions.
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- Xiao-Xiao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, Shanghai, China
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Gao P, Li G, Li Y, Li Y, Tian H, Wang Y, Zhou J, Ma T. An Exogenous Surfactant-Producing Bacillus subtilis Facilitates Indigenous Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:186. [PMID: 26925051 PMCID: PMC4757698 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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This study used an exogenous lipopeptide-producing Bacillus subtilis to strengthen the indigenous microbial enhanced oil recovery (IMEOR) process in a water-flooded reservoir in the laboratory. The microbial processes and driving mechanisms were investigated in terms of the changes in oil properties and the interplay between the exogenous B. subtilis and indigenous microbial populations. The exogenous B. subtilis is a lipopeptide producer, with a short growth cycle and no oil-degrading ability. The B. subtilis facilitates the IMEOR process through improving oil emulsification and accelerating microbial growth with oil as the carbon source. Microbial community studies using quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing revealed that the exogenous B. subtilis could live together with reservoir microbial populations, and did not exert an observable inhibitory effect on the indigenous microbial populations during nutrient stimulation. Core-flooding tests showed that the combined exogenous and indigenous microbial flooding increased oil displacement efficiency by 16.71%, compared with 7.59% in the control where only nutrients were added, demonstrating the application potential in enhanced oil recovery in water-flooded reservoirs, in particular, for reservoirs where IMEOR treatment cannot effectively improve oil recovery.
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- Peike Gao
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University Tianjin, China
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