Among four crude oil-degrading fungi strains that were isolated from a petroleum-polluted
area in the Rumaila oil field, two fungi strains showed high activity in aliphatic hydrocarbon …

While over hundreds of terrestrial fungal genera have been shown to play important roles in
the biodegradation of hydrocarbons, few studies have so far focused on the fungal …

Oil spillage is a crucial environmental catastrophe of universal interest. Occurring either
inadvertently or deliberately, it results mostly from everyday human activities through …

Oil pollution causes deterioration of the physical, chemical, mechanical, and geotechnical
characteristics of affected soil leading to loss of soil productivity for engineering purposes …

Names: Banat, Ibrahim M., editor.| Thavasi, Rengathavasi, editor. Title: Microbial
biosurfactants and their environmental and industrial applications/editors, Ibrahim M. Banat …

The effects of crude oil exploration in Nigeria have gained both local and international
attention, thereby scaling up pressure for remediation. However, there have been no …

This study investigated the effect of soil pH, nitrogen-phosphorus ratio, crude oil
concentration and bacteria isolates (from petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soil) …

For more than a decade, the primary focus of environmental experts has been to adopt risk-
based management approaches to clean-up the total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) …

Crude oil still affects many countries because it is one of the essential fuel sources. It makes
life more manageable in modern communities and cannot be overstated because it is easy …

The increasing contamination of soil by petroleum products has been a great source of
concern to our society because of its negative consequences on the environment. Thus …