Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oilfield Systems: Proceedings from the International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Bio

ISBN-13: 9789048192519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 279 str.

Corinne Whitby

Opis

Written by leading authorities in the field, this volume presents both theoretical and practical approaches to specific Molecular Microbiological Methods (MMM). Readers will learn how MMM can be applied to improve the management of both oil reservoirs and downstream processes.

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION, SAMPLING AND PROCEDURES   1. Introduction Corinne Whitby and Torben Lund Skovhus   2: Sampling and nucleic extraction procedures from oil reservoir samples Geert M. van der Kraan, Maarten de Ridder, Bart Lomans and Gerard Muyzer   PART II: APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR MICROBIAL METHODS TO THE OIL INDUSTRY   3. Application of molecular microbial methods to the oil industry to analyze DNA, RNA and proteins Sean Caffrey   4. Which microbial communities are present? Importance of selecting appropriate primers and probes for use in molecular microbiology methods (MMM) in oil fields Ketil Sørensen   5. Which microbial communities are present? Application of PCR-DGGE: case study on an oil field core sample Geert M. van der Kraan, Floris Buijzen, Cor Kuijvenhoven and Gerard Muyzer   6. Which microbial communities are present? Application of clone libraries: syntrophic acetate degradation to methane in a high-temperature petroleum reservoir Natalya Shestakova, Valeriy Ivoilov, Tatiana Tourova, Sergey Belyaev, Andrei Poltaraus, and Tamara Nazina   7. Which microbial communities are present? Using Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH): Microscopic Techniques for Enumeration of Troublesome Microorganisms in Oil and Fuel Samples Lars Holmkvist, Jette Johanne Østergaardand Torben Lund Skovhus   8. Which microbial communities are present? Sequence based Metagenomics Sean Caffrey   9. How many microorganisms are present? Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR (qRT- PCR) Andy Price, Laura Acuña Álvarez, Corinne Whitby and Jan Larsen   10. How many microorganisms are present? Techniques for enumerating microorganisms in oil fields Ketil Sørensen, Torben Lund Skovhus and Jan Larsen   11. Which members of the microbial communities are active? Microarrays Brandon Morris   PART III: PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MICROBES TO THE OIL INDUSTRY AND TREATMENT STRATEGIES   12. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Monitoring and preventing reservoir souring using molecular microbial methods Antje Gittel   13. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. The effect of nitrate injection in oil reservoirs: Experience with Nitrate Injection in the Halfdan Oil Field Jan Larsen and Torben Lund Skovhus   14. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Monitoring microbial responses to biocides: Bioassays- a concept to test the effect of biocides on both Archaea and Bacteria in oil field systems Lars Holmkvist, Uffe Sognstrup Thomsen, Jan Larsen, Michael Jensen and Torben Lund Skovhus   15. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Identification of H₂S-producing bacteria in corrosion product of a gas pipeline Márcia Lutterbach and Luciana Contador   16. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Rapid diagnostics of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in oil field systems with a DNA-based test kit Torben Lund Skovhus, Ketil Sørensen and Jan Larsen   17. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Anaerobic Hydrocarbon Biodegradation and Biocorrosion. Joseph Suflita and Kathleen Duncan   18. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Health and safety issues from the production of hydrogen sulphide Nicole Williamson   19. Problems caused by microbes and treatment strategies. Downstream Petroleum Microbiology: An Industry Perspective Elaine McFarlane   PART IV: HOW SPECIFIC MICRIOBIAL COMMUNITIES BENEFIT THE OIL INDUSTRY   20. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Biorefining and Bioprocessing for Upgrading Petroleum Oil Ajay Singh   21. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) Svetlana Rudyk and Erik Sogaard   22. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Anaerobic microbial processes and the prospect for methane production from oil Lisa Gieg   23. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Case Study: Proof of concept that oil entrained in marginal reservoirs can be bioconverted to methane gas as a green energy recovery strategy Lisa Gieg   24. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Dynamics of Alcanivorax spp. in oil contaminated intertidal beach sediments undergoing bioremediation Arvind Singh, Angela Sherry, Neil Gray, Martin Jones, Wilfred Röling and Ian Head   25. How specific microbial communities benefit the oil industry. Significant contribution of methyl/methanol-utilizing methanogenic pathway in a subsurface biogas environment Dariusz Strąpoć, Matt Ashby,Ladonna Wood, Rick Levinson andBradley Huizinga   PART V FUEL FOR THE FUTURE   26. Fuel for the future. Development of new fuels, e.g. biofuels Gitte Sørensen, Ketil Sørensen, Hans Ove Hansen and Sune Nygaard   27. Fuel for the future. Biodiesel: A Case study Márcia Lutterbach and Mariana Galvão   28. Fuel for the future. Unlocking New Fuel Resources Richard Johnson and Corinne Whitby   APPENDIX I Description of Methods used by some of the contributing authors in this book

O autorze

Dr Corinne Whitby is a lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Essex, UK. She has over 10 years primary research experience in molecular microbial ecology. Her research is focused upon the application of Molecular Microbiological Methods (MMM) to analyze the biodegradation of hydrocarbons (e.g. naphthenic acids and polyaromatic hydrocarbons) and how nanoparticles affect hydrocarbon biodegradation. Her research is also involved in analyzing the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems. She was the original founders of ISMOS1 (with Dr Skovhus) and co-organised ISMOS2, Denmark, 2009 and the forthcoming ISMOS3, Calgary, 2011.   Dr. Torben Lund Skovhus graduated from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2002 with a Master's degree in Biology. In 2005 he finished his PhD from Department of Microbiology, University of Aarhus. In 2005 Torben was employed at Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in the Centre for Chemistry and Water Technology, where he got responsibility for the consultancy activities for the oil and gas industry, molecular detection of troublesome microbes in process and domestic waters and development and introduction of new molecular monitoring tools for the industries. Torben was Head of the DTI Microbiology Laboratories from 2006 to 2008 while he was building up several consultancy activities with the oil and gas industry. He is now in a position as Team Leader in DTI Oil & Gas Center. The team counts dedicated chemists, microbiologists, engineers, consultants. All with a long history in general troubleshooting of technical industrial systems for microbiologically caused problems and with a particular focus on oil, gas and petroleum systems.

Blurb

Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Field Systems addresses the major problems microbes cause in oil fields, (e.g. biocorrosion and souring) and how beneficial microbial activities may be exploited (e.g. MEOR and biofuels). The book describes theoretical and practical approaches to specific Molecular Microbiological Methods (MMM), and is written by leading authorities in the field from both academia and industry. The book describes how MMM can be applied to faciliate better management of oil reservoirs and downstream processes. The book is innovative in that it utilises real industrial case studies which gives useful technical and scientific information to researchers, engineers and microbiologists working with oil, gas and petroleum systems.