1 1 Review Article 2 Biosurfactants: Production and Potential applications in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery 3 (MEOR) 4 Geetha S. J. a , Ibrahim M. Banat b , Sanket J. Joshi c* 5 a Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 6 b School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA 7 Northern Ireland, UK 8 c Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 9 10 11 *Corresponding author 12 Dr. Sanket J. Joshi 13 Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, 14 College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 15 PB: 36, PC: 123, 16 Tel: +968-24146806 17 FAX: +968-24146810 18 Email: sanketjj@gmail.com; sanket@squ.ed u.om 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28