Deliver
Introduce low-viscosity treatment fluids through existing access points or purpose-built injection systems.
Platform & technology
Biomineralization:
a new engineering tool.
Low-viscosity fluids move through pores, fractures and void spaces, then form structural limestone precisely where it is needed.
Advantages of BioSqueeze
Designed to reach the pathway and form the barrier in place.
Six practical characteristics explain why biomineralization can address defects and connected pathways that are difficult for conventional bulk materials to reach.
From science to engineering
Controlled mineral formation, deployed at field scale.
Biomineralization occurs throughout nature. The engineering challenge is making it predictable, repeatable and practical under real field conditions.
BioSqueeze has developed the fluid systems, manufacturing controls, pumping equipment, treatment designs and operating procedures required to deploy biomineralization as an engineered subsurface process.
Reach
Follow connected pores, fractures and pathways that cement, grout and other bulk materials often cannot reach.
Mineralize
Use a controlled metabolic process to precipitate calcium carbonate and create structural limestone in place.
Why the process works
The treatment follows the problem.
In complex connected systems, the most conductive pathway takes fluid first. Mineral formation progressively reduces that pathway's permeability, naturally redirecting treatment into the next pathway.
Highest flowFluid enters the dominant pathway
Mineral growthPermeability falls as limestone forms
Self-diversionTreatment moves to the next pathway
Platform advantages
Why limestone—and why form it in place?
Conventional materials remain essential. Biomineralization adds an option for problems defined by limited access, very small pathways, complex geometry or the need to alter material properties without excavation.
Water-like viscosity
At approximately the viscosity of water, BioSqueeze fluids enter micro-annuli, pores, fractures and channels that bulk materials cannot access.
Self-diverting placement
The fluids follow the highest-permeability pathway first. As mineral forms and permeability falls, treatment redirects into the next connected pathway.
Mineral formed in place
Calcium carbonate precipitates in direct contact with rock, steel, cement and aggregate rather than arriving as a pre-formed material.
Self-limiting biology
The process uses controlled oxygen. When it is consumed, biological activity stops and the microbes become entombed in the mineral they produced.
Stable end state
The result is inert crystalline limestone—not an ongoing biological reaction or a temporary organic barrier.
One platform, multiple outcomes
Changes in deployment design, dosage and performance targets allow the platform to strengthen, seal or heal.
Strengthen
Cement grains and particles at their contact points to increase bearing capacity and stabilize unconsolidated materials.
Seal
Reduce permeability within connected fluid pathways and create a permanent mineral barrier.
Heal
Fill fractures, reinforce damaged cement and restore continuity within aging infrastructure.