Contributors .................................................. vii
Foreword ....................................................... ix
I. MICROBIOLOGY OF OIL FIELDS ................................... 1
1. Oil Reservoirs and Oil Production ........................... 3
Marie Planckaert
2. Indigenous Microbial Communities in Oil Fields ............. 21
Michel Magot
3. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Archaea ...................... 35
Nils-Kåre Birkeland
4. Hyperthermophilic and Methanogenic Archaea in Oil Fields ... 55
Christian Jeanthon, Olivier Nercessian, Erwan Corre,
and Agnès Grabowski-Lux
5. The Fermentative, Iron-Reducing, and Nitrate-Reducing
Microorganisms ............................................. 71
Bernard Ollivier and Jean-Luc Cayol
II. PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF BACTERIAL ACTIVITY ................... 89
6. Biodegradation of Petroleum in Subsurface Geological
Reservoirs ................................................. 91
Haiping Huang and Steve Larter
7. Reservoir Souring: Mechanisms and Prevention .............. 123
Ian Vance and David R. Thrasher
8. Microbial Corrosion in the Oil Industry:
a Corrosionist's View ..................................... 143
Jean-Louis Crolet
9. Biofouling in the Oil Industry ............................ 171
Peter F. Sanders and Paul J. Sturman
III. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OIL PRODUCTION ......................... 199
10. Microbial Control of Hydrogen Sulfide Production in Oil
Reservoirs ................................................ 201
Egil Sunde and Terje Torsvik
11. Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery: Past, Present, and
Future .................................................... 215
Michael J. Mclnerney, David P. Nagle, and Roy
M. Knapp
12. Biotechnological Upgrading of Petroleum ................... 239
John J. Kilbane II
IV. BIOREMEDIATION OF HYDROCARBON -
CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENTS ................................. 257
13. Diversity, Function, and Biocatalytic Applications of
Alkane Oxygenases ......................................... 259
Jan B. van Beilen and Bernard Witholt
14. Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons under Anoxic Conditions .... 277
Ralf Rabus
15. Biodegradation of Fuel Ethers ............................. 301
Françoise Fayolle and Frédéric
Monot
16. The Microbiology of Marine Oil Spill Bioremediation ....... 317
Roger C. Prince
17. Metabolic Indicators of Anaerobic Hydrocarbon
Biodegradation in Petroleum-Laden Environments ............ 337
Lisa M. Gieg and Joseph M. Suflita
Index ......................................................... 357
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