Employing deep reservoirs as UGS (underground gas storage) has a long history across
continents. In 2018, 689 underground gas reservoirs with a total volume of 417 bcm were in …

Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are considered as the potential approaches to
remediate the environments contaminated by hydrocarbons. This review addresses the …

Intrusion of salinity and petroleum hydrocarbons (eg, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and
xylenes, BTEX) into shallow groundwater by so-called'produced water'(the water associated …

Petroleum microbiology is important to the fossil oil industry and any related environmental
research. Assessment of resident microbial communities is essential for controlling many …

Abstract Background The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau represents one of the most important
component of the terrestrial ecosystem and a particularly vulnerable region, which …

Polylactic acid (PLA) plastic is increasingly recognized as a sustainable alternative to
petroleum-based plastics. However, its biodegradability remains a challenge, requiring …

Revealing the diversity and distribution of archaea is basically crucial to understanding their
ecological functions in subsurface petroleum reservoir ecosystems. However, the …

The share of molecular hydrogen as a source of “green energy” is currently significantly
increasing. It is proposed to use existing underground natural gas storage facilities to store …

Microorganisms are capable of colonizing extreme environments like deep biosphere and
oil reservoirs. The prokaryotes diversity in exploited oil reservoirs is composed of indigenous …

Water flooding is a widely applied method for secondary oil recovery. However, this practice
introduces exogenous microorganisms into the oil reservoirs that can have deleterious …