Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

Hundreds of millions of litres of petroleum enter the environment from both natural and
anthropogenic sources every year. The input from natural marine oil seeps alone would be …

Once in the ocean, plastics are rapidly colonized by complex microbial communities. Factors
affecting the development and composition of these communities are still poorly understood …

Plastics are ubiquitous in the oceans and constitute suitable matrices for bacterial
attachment and growth. Understanding biofouling mechanisms is a key issue to assessing …

Microorganisms are present in oil reservoirs around the world where they degrade oil and
lead to changes in oil quality. Unfortunately, our knowledge about processes in deep oil …

Dispersants are globally and routinely applied as an emergency response to oil spills in
marine ecosystems with the goal of chemically enhancing the dissolution of oil into water …

Over the past few years, a new and ecophysiologically unusual group of marine
hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria–the obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB)–has …

The marine environment is highly susceptible to pollution by petroleum, and so it is
important to understand how microorganisms degrade hydrocarbons, and thereby mitigate …

Highlights•Consideration should be given to 'seeding'oil spills with hydrocarbonoclastic
bacteria.•Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria often produce bioemulsifiers.•Bioremediation of …

Due to the toxicity of petroleum compounds, the increasing accidents of marine oil
spills/leakages have had a significant impact on our environment. Recently, different …