MEOR in Northwest Peru

Seven producing wells in the Providencia and Lobitos fields of Block Z-2 in the Talara basin were selected to evaluate a biotechnology approach for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The microbial-EOR (MEOR) candidates produce from faulted reservoirs by intermittent gas lift methods. The oils are paraffinic and present good candidates for biotreatability. Because of operational reasons not directly related to MEOR, the complete inoculation program was concluded in only four of the original seven wells.

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This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 94934, "Biotechnology Application to EOR in Talara Offshore Oil Fields, Northwest Peru" by A. Maure, Microbes Inc., and A.A. Saldaña, SPE, and A.R. Juarez, SPE, Petro-Tech Peruana S.A., prepared for the 2005 SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 20-23 June.

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