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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2011
Scott Campbell, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Douglas Baldwin, College Station, TX (US);
Mei Liu, College Station, TX (US);
Neil S. Summer, College Station, TX (US);
Scott Campbell, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Douglas Baldwin, College Station, TX (US);
Mei Liu, College Station, TX (US);
Neil S. Summer, College Station, TX (US);
Phage Biocontrol Research, LLC, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a process for control in oil and gas wells and related facilities of prokaryote caused souring, fouling and corrosion by reduction of problematic prokaryotes with naturally occurring lysing organisms, particularly sulfate-reducing prokaryotes by proliferating suitable virulent lysing organisms under conditions in which problematic prokaryotes thrive, including in a gas production wellbore. The process provides in situ proliferation of virulent lysing organism in a wellbore by providing both virulent lysing organisms and their host prokaryotes to selectively grow an effective control amount and concentrations of lysing organisms in a well formation.