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| - The principle behind MEOR is basd on the fact that microbes can produce most of the agents now employed in chemical EOR; i.e., water-soluble polymers, surfactants, co-surfactants and solvents such as ethanol and acetone, and acids. (See M. Singer, Microbial Biosurfactants, in Zajic, Microbes and Oil Recovery; U.S. Patent No. 4,522,261 to McInerney et al.; U.S. Patent No. 2,807,570 to Updegraff and
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