Petroleum hydrocarbons, oil, heavy metals pollution is becoming additional severe problem
due to the growing call for crude oil and crude oil products related products in several fields …

In the era of global industrialisation, the exploration of natural resources has served as a
source of experimentation for science and advanced technologies, giving rise to the …

In the current scenario of changing climatic conditions and the rising global population, there
is an urgent need to explore novel, efficient, and economical natural products for the benefit …

One of the major environmental problems today is hydrocarbon contamination resulting from
the activities related to the petrochemical industry. Accidental releases of petroleum …

In this work, the biodegradation of the crude oil by the potential biosurfactant producing
Bacillus subtilis A1 was investigated. The isolate had the ability to synthesize degradative …

Microbial surfactants are amphipathic molecules that consist of hydrophilic and hydrophobic
domains, which allow partition of two fluid phases of varying degree of polarity. They are …

Biosurfactants are in demand by the global market as natural commodities that can be
added to commercial products or use in environmental applications. These biomolecules …

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 …

Surfactants are compounds that can reduce the surface tension between two different
phases or the interfacial tension of the liquid between water and oil, possessing both …

Twenty three morphologically distinct microbial colonies were isolated from soil and sea
water samples, which were collected from Jeddah region, Saudi Arabia for screening of the …