Before the Titan Process: Oil is trapped in porous sandstone. Water flows without dislodging oil droplets from tiny pore spaces in the rock.

After the Titan Process: Titan nutrients create a new skin characteristic for the microbes, inducing them to seek out and surround oil droplets, causing the droplets to distort, break apart and dislodge from the microscopic pore spaces between the tiny sandstone and carbonate rock particles in the reservoir.