Performance of Biosurfactants in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)

Microbial enhanced oil recovery method (MEOR) refers to all processes thatuse the capabilitie of various microorganisms to produce microbial metabolites to improve the efficiency of oil extraction. One of this metabolites, isbiosurfactant. Biosurfactants are surface active compounds that dissolve organic compounds in inorganic compounds by reduction the surface tension. In this paper will have an overview on methods and the advantages of using biosurfactants and effective factors in production and the impact of environmental condition on biosurfactantperformancein microbial enhanced oil recovery.