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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2012
William J. Kohr, Davis, CA (US);
Zhaoduo Zhang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David J. Galgoczy, San Francisco, CA (US);
William J. Kohr, Davis, CA (US);
Zhaoduo Zhang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David J. Galgoczy, San Francisco, CA (US);
GEO FOSSIL FUELS, LLC, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
A method of enhanced oil recovery that includes water-flooding an oil reservoir with an alkaline fluid or a fluid containing a compound toxic to indigenous microbes and inoculating the oil reservoir with a consortium comprising microbes that naturally are, or are engineered to be, obligatory alkaliphilic, halo-alkaliphilic or alkaline tolerant, and naturally are, or are engineered to be, deficient in their ability to utilize short chain hydrocarbons of 12 carbons or less but have the ability to convert hydrocarbons into fatty acids.