ArticleFEMS microbiology ecology2024
Assessment of the in situ biomethanation potential of a deep aquifer used for natural gas storage.
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- Microbial processes in geological carbon sequestration: Mechanisms, methods, and engineering implications.iScience · 2026Review
- Successional Trajectories of Deep Subsurface Microbiomes in Response To Experimental Dihydrogen Injection.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Hydrogen competition between a gas reservoir community indicates available CO2 as main limiting factor.FEMS microbiology letters · 2026Article
- Towards standardized microbial hydrogen consumption testing in the subsurface: harmonized field sampling and enrichment approaches.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025Article
- Microbiological and Geochemical Perspectives on Sustainable Dihydrogen Storage in Deep Aquifers.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Editorial: celebrating the biogeosphere at the joint meeting of International Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Microbiology.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Assessing the methanogenic activity of microbial communities enriched from a depleted reservoir.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Experimental simulation of HFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The dihydrogen (H2) sector is undergoing development and will require massive storage solutions. To minimize costs, the conversion of underground geological storage sites, such as deep aquifers, used for natural gas storage into future underground hydrogen storage sites is the favored scenario. However, these sites contain microorganisms capable of consuming H2, mainly sulfate reducers and methanogens. Methanogenesis is, therefore expected but its intensity must be evaluated. Here, in a deep aquifer used for underground geological storage, 17 sites were sampled, with low sulfate concentrations ranging from 21.9 to 197.8 µM and a slow renewal of formation water. H2-selected communities mainly were composed of the families Methanobacteriaceae and Methanothermobacteriaceae and the genera Desulfovibrio, Thermodesulfovibrio, and Desulforamulus. Experiments were done under different conditions, and sulfate reduction, as well as methanogenesis, were demonstrated in the presence of a H2 or H2/CO2 (80/20) gas phase, with or without calcite/site rock. These metabolisms led to an increase in pH up to 10.2 under certain conditions (without CO2). The results suggest competition for CO2 between lithoautotrophs and carbonate mineral precipitation, which could limit microbial H2 consumption.
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