MICROBIAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR USE IN BIOREMEDIATION AND TO REMOVE PARAFFIN AND OTHER CONTAMINATING SUBSTANCES FROM OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

• Main Authors: ALIBEK KEN, FARMER SEAN, ADAMS KENT, KARATHUR KARTHIK
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 27.09.2019
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DYES; ENZYMOLOGY; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NATURAL RESINS; PAINTS; POLISHES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

The subject invention provides microbe-based products, as well as their use in simultaneously enhancing oil recovery from an oil well while efficiently removing contaminating compositions such as biofilm, scale, paraffin, and/or asphaltenes from oil production equipment and oil-bearing formations. The subject invention can also be used to disperse paraffin and asphaltene precipitates, and to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude oil. The subject invention further provides materials and methods for bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated sites. 本发明提供了基于微生物的产品以及其在同时提高油井的油采收率的同时有效地从油生产设备和含油地层中去除诸如生物膜、垢、石蜡和/或沥青质等污染组合物的用途。本发明还可以用于分散石蜡和沥青质沉淀物，并降低重质原油的粘度。本发明进一步提供了用于生物修复烃污染场所的材料和方法。