Bacterial and archaeal diversity in oil fields and reservoirs and their potential role in hydrocarbon recovery and bioprospecting

NK Singh, S Choudhary - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 - Springer
Hydrocarbon is a primary source of energy in the current urbanized society. Considering the
increasing demand, worldwide oil productions are declining due to maturity of oil fields and …

Bioremediation of Oil and Natural Gas Industry Waste Using Methanogens: Current Status and Future Perspective to Biohythane Production

S Saranya, L Thamanna, VP Sreekutty… - Arabian Journal for …, 2024 - Springer
The oil and gas industry produces significant amounts of waste including petroleum
wastewater, waste drilling fluid, and oil sludge. Bioremediation uses microorganisms and …

Illegal dumping of oil and gas wastewater alters arid soil microbial communities

M Kashani, MA Engle, DB Kent… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Permian Basin, underlying southeast New Mexico and west Texas, is one
of the most productive oil and gas (OG) provinces in the United States. Oil and gas …

Characterization and treatment of Bakken oilfield produced water as a potential source of value-added elements

F Xiao - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The oilfield produced water is a major waste stream in places where shale-gas production is
growing rapidly. The reuse of produced water merits consideration because this practice …

Microbiological corrosion acceleration of N80 steel in shale gas field produced water containing Citrobacter amalonaticus at 60° C

H Liu, Z Jin, H Liu, G Meng, H Liu - Bioelectrochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) is one of typical reasons leading to a lot of
damage of pipeline steels in the shale gas environments. MIC behavior and mechanism …

Microbial colonization and persistence in deep fractured shales is guided by metabolic exchanges and viral predation

KK Amundson, MA Borton, RA Daly, DW Hoyt, A Wong… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Microbial colonization of subsurface shales following hydraulic fracturing offers
the opportunity to study coupled biotic and abiotic factors that impact microbial persistence …

The microbial community and functional potential in the Midland Basin reveal a community dominated by both thiosulfate and sulfate-reducing microorganisms

K Tinker, D Lipus, J Gardiner, M Stuckman… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Permian Basin is the highest producing oil and gas reservoir in the United
States. Hydrocarbon resources in this region are often accessed by unconventional …

Sulphate-reducing bacterial community structure from produced water of the Periquito and Galo de Campina onshore oilfields in Brazil

SRG Tiburcio, A Macrae, RS Peixoto… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) cause fouling, souring, corrosion and produce H2S
during oil and gas production. Produced water obtained from Periquito (PQO) and Galo de …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term CRISPR locus dynamics and stable host-virus co-existence in subsurface fractured shales

KK Amundson, S Roux, JL Shelton, MJ Wilkins - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Viruses are the most ubiquitous biological entities on Earth. Even so, elucidating the impact
of viruses on microbial communities and associated ecosystem processes often requires …

Biogeochemistry of the Antrim shale natural gas reservoir

B Stemple, K Tinker, P Sarkar, J Miller… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The Antrim Shale, located in the Michigan Basin, United States (US), is a major US shale
play having produced over 2.5 Trillion Cubic Feet (Tcf) of unconventional shale natural gas …