Editorial
Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) can Benefit from Bioremediation
| Michael Siegert1* and Martin Krüger2 | |
| 1Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA | |
| 2Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, Germany | |
| Corresponding Author : | Michael Siegert Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA United States E-mail: michael@siegert.org |
| Received February 20, 2012; Accepted February 22, 2012; Published February 24, 2012 | |
| Citation: Siegert M (2012) Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) can Benefit from Bioremediation. J Bioremed Biodegrad 3:e107. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000e107 | |
| Copyright: © 2012 Siegert M, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated sites has a long history and great achievements were made during the last decades. However, this had too little impact on microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). Now that world-wide demand for oil exceeds the supply it has become necessary to use the scientific achievements from the field of bioremediation to enhance hydrocarbon extraction from yet inaccessible resources.
