Conversion of petroleum to methane by the indigenous methanogenic consortia for oil recovery in heavy oil reservoir
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Conversion of crude oil to methane by a microbial consortium enriched from oil reservoir production waters
The methanogenic biodegradation of crude oil is an important process occurring in petroleum reservoirs and other oil-containing environments such as contaminated aquifers. In this process, syntrophic bacteria degrade hydrocarbon substrates to products such as acetate, and/or H2 and CO2 that are then used by methanogens to produce methane in a thermodynamically dependent manner. We enriched a me...
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