Proof They Are Using Bacteria In Fracking

The Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery process uses bacteria to extract the crude from shale, which is essentially sandstone. 95% of all oil recovery in the US is using this “unconventional process”.

A New Direction in Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)

 Samples are taken of oil reservoir fluids. Microbes within these fluids are studied and analyzed so that precise nutrients can be designed for specific species of microbes present in each reservoir.

 With this knowledge, highly specialized medical grade nutrients are formulated and injected into the reservoir. Trillions of targeted subterranean colonies of microbes feed on the nutrients. Microbes are so small that 5 million microbes can occupy the head of a pin. The nutrients create a dramatic response in the microbe colony. The nutrients make the microbes multiply by approximately 100 – 1000 times, grow larger, then shrink dramatically. The nutrients create a change in the microbes’ skin structure which becomes oily, and this induces the microbes to seek and attach to oil droplets—a condition known as oleophilic [oil loving]. Once they have been stimulated, hundreds of trillions of microbes work to attach themselves to oil droplets. The microbe’s skin is now induced to naturally seek an oil coating and is attracted to the oil droplets trapped inside the pore spaces of the oil reservoir.

 Trillions of microbes now bathe in and attach to the trillions of oil droplets that were “trapped” inside the pore spaces. These microbes are now .1 to .2 microns in size. Microbes have their own propulsion system (flagella) so that they can get to places in the pore matrix under their own power where no other secondary recovery substance (water, vapor or a chemical agent) which depends on injection pressure can penetrate.

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