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Enhanced oil recovery techniques could make a difference.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 21-JUL-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Enhanced oil recovery techniques could make a difference.(Focus: Energy, Gas & Utilities)

Article Excerpt
It sounds entirely unlikely: Could natural microbes in oil fields be fertilized in an enhanced oil recovery process that would allow twice as much oil to be recovered from fields previously considered "spent" than was originally produced?

With soaring fuel costs causing grave concern about the economy and even national security, being able to recover more oil from old oil fields could have huge implications. And a researcher at Mississippi State University, professor emeritus Dr. Lewis Brown, has proven that his microbial oil recovery method does work. A pilot project scheduled to be closed in 1998 is still producing.

"It is called incremental oil," Brown said. "It is oil you got out that you aren't supposed to get out. Two-thirds of all oil already discovered is still in...

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