Application of Biotechnology in Oil and Gas
Industries
6
Ganshyam Prajapat, Sandeep Rellegadla, Shikha Jain,
and Akhil Agrawal
Abstract
Biotechnology has wide application in medical, agriculture, bioremediation,
non-renewable energy production, and food production. Nowadays, environment
friendly biotechnological approaches are also popular in petroleum industry.
Conventional approaches are high in cost, involve complex implementation
process and environmental hazard, while biotechnological approaches are environment friendly. In this chapter, we discuss about biotechnological approaches
used by oil and gas industries for resolving production related problems and also
for enhancement of production. In oil fields microbial souring, corrosion, and
sulfur content in crude oil are major problems faced during or after the production. Another is, production of trapped oil through various enhanced oil recovery
processes, in which microbial enhanced oil recovery process has shown great
potential. At last, oil sands and shale gas production and its related problems are
also been discussed.
6.1
Introduction of Oil Production System
Modernization and technological evolution have developed this era at an exponential
phase. With the advent of modern tools and equipment’s, the focus on tapping
renewable energy potential is the center of every scientific development. However,
the non-renewable fossil fuels are still a major requirement of the present world. This
global energy demand is presently met by the conventional and non-conventional oil
reserves such as onshore, offshore oilfields and oil sands. Currently, the discovery of
G. Prajapat · S. Rellegadla · A. Agrawal (*)
Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
e-mail: akhilagrawal@curaj.ac.in
S. Jain
Department of Chemistry, Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Singh et al. (eds.), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7493-1_6
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Industries
6
Ganshyam Prajapat, Sandeep Rellegadla, Shikha Jain,
and Akhil Agrawal
Abstract
Biotechnology has wide application in medical, agriculture, bioremediation,
non-renewable energy production, and food production. Nowadays, environment
friendly biotechnological approaches are also popular in petroleum industry.
Conventional approaches are high in cost, involve complex implementation
process and environmental hazard, while biotechnological approaches are environment friendly. In this chapter, we discuss about biotechnological approaches
used by oil and gas industries for resolving production related problems and also
for enhancement of production. In oil fields microbial souring, corrosion, and
sulfur content in crude oil are major problems faced during or after the production. Another is, production of trapped oil through various enhanced oil recovery
processes, in which microbial enhanced oil recovery process has shown great
potential. At last, oil sands and shale gas production and its related problems are
also been discussed.
6.1
Introduction of Oil Production System
Modernization and technological evolution have developed this era at an exponential
phase. With the advent of modern tools and equipment’s, the focus on tapping
renewable energy potential is the center of every scientific development. However,
the non-renewable fossil fuels are still a major requirement of the present world. This
global energy demand is presently met by the conventional and non-conventional oil
reserves such as onshore, offshore oilfields and oil sands. Currently, the discovery of
G. Prajapat · S. Rellegadla · A. Agrawal (*)
Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
e-mail: akhilagrawal@curaj.ac.in
S. Jain
Department of Chemistry, Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Singh et al. (eds.), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7493-1_6
113