Environmental biotechnology (EB) can play a positive and an important role in detoxifying
and eliminating pollutants, and cleaning up the contaminated sites of ecosystems, but the …

Abstract The Persian Gulf, hosting ca. 48% of the world's oil reserves, has been chronically
exposed to natural oil seepage. Oil spill studies show a shift in microbial community …

Soil microbial communities are usually regarded as one of the key players in the global
element cycling. Moreover, an important consequence of oil contamination altering the …

The latest discovery of sulfurous natural gas marked a breakthrough in the Cenozoic natural
gas exploration in the southwestern margin of Qaidam Basin. The 16S rRNA analyses were …

Enrichment culturing and transferring technique is frequently used to obtain specific
functional microorganisms for more in-depth investigations from the complex samples …

Hydrocarbon–degrading consortia (HDC) play an important role in petroleum exploitation.
However, the real composition and metabolic mechanism of HDC in the microbial enhanced …

While pressure is a significant characteristic of petroleum reservoirs, it is often overlooked in
laboratory studies. To clarify the composition and metabolic properties of microbial …

It is widely assumed that a taxonomic core community emerges among microbial
communities from similar habitats because similar environments select for the same taxa …

Microorganisms are present in nearly every oil or bitumen sample originating from
temperate reservoirs. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to obtain reliable estimates about …

In today's world, where the oil and gas industry faces challenges such as declining
production and the increasing need for efficient resource utilization, microbial enhanced oil …