Oilfield microbiology

"There is an increasing need for the oil industry to monitor microbial communities in real time to address issues and benefits of these microbes. This book offers fundamental insight into how molecular microbiological methods have enabled researchers in the field to analyze and quantify in-situ microbial communities and their activities in response to changing environmental conditions. Such information is fundamental to the oil industry to employ more directed, cost-effective strategies to prevent the major problems associated with deleterious microbial activities (e.g., souring and biocorrosion), as well as to encourage beneficial microbe activity (e.g., MEOR, biofuels, bioremediation)"--

Highlights of 10 years of research in petroleum microbiology / Gerrit Voordouw -- Modelling of microbiological influenced corrosion : limitations and perspectives / Torben Lund Skovhus -- Modelling microbiologically influenced marine corrosion of steels / Robert E Melchers -- Microbial communities involved in high salinity souring in shale oil fields / Annie Biwen An -- RNA and biocorrosion : collection, transport and extraction standardization of samples from the oil sector / Diogo Coutinho -- Rapid in-field collection and ambient temperature stabilization of corrosion-related microbial samples for downstream molecular analysis / Neil Sharma -- Perchlorate and its application in the oil and gas industry / Yi Liu -- Lab-on-a-chip model for investigating the effect of biocides on co-culture biofilms / Susmitha Purnima Kotu -- Considerations for evaluating biocidal efficacy on biofilm formation in oil field relevant microorganisms / Lea Holsten -- Methanogenic degradation of light and heavy crude oils : commonalities and distinctions / Courtney Toth -- Culturable microbiome and biodegradation activity in the diesel B5 and biodiesel (B100) contaminated soil bioremediation / Guilherme…