ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020
Densely Populated Water Droplets in Heavy-Oil Seeps.
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- Oil composition determines microbial preference for carbon source between hydrocarbons and Necromass in water droplets within crude shale oil.ISME communications · 2026Article
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- Enrichment of microbial consortia for MEOR in crude oil phase of reservoir-produced liquid and their response to environmental disturbance.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2024Article
- Imprints of ecological processes in the taxonomic core community: an analysis of naturally replicated microbial communities enclosed in oil.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Assessing anaerobic microbial degradation rates of crude light oil with reverse stable isotope labelling and community analysis.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2024Article
- Inhibition of sulfate-reducing bacteria with formate.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Article
- Indigenous microbial communities in heavy oil show a threshold response to salinity.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2021Article
- Research progress in bioremediation of petroleum pollution.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- Microbial Degradation Rates of Natural Bitumen.Environmental science & technology · 2021Article
- A review on anaerobic microorganisms isolated from oil reservoirs.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Most of the microbial degradation in oil reservoirs is believed to take place at the oil-water transition zone (OWTZ). However, a recent study indicates that there is microbial life enclosed in microliter-sized water droplets dispersed in heavy oil of Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago. This life in oil suggests that microbial degradation of oil also takes place in water pockets in the oil-bearing rock of an oil leg independent of the OWTZ. However, it is unknown whether microbial life in water droplets dispersed in oil is a generic property of oil reservoirs rather than an exotic exception. Hence, we took samples from three heavy-oil seeps, Pitch Lake (Trinidad and Tobago), the La Brea Tar Pits (California, USA), and an oil seep on the McKittrick oil field (California, USA). All three tested oil seeps contained dispersed water droplets. Larger droplets between 1 and 10 μl revealed high cell densities of up to 10
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