BACKGROUND Patents have been granted for a number of techniques for petroleum biodegradation including use of micro-organisms for degradation of hydrocarbon-based substances and for hydrocarbon degradation in oil reservoirs, but there is a dearth of information on hydrocarbon degradation in different soil textures. OBJECTIVE Hence, this work investigated the effects of different soil textures...

the increasing production and use of fossil fuels increase the probability of soil source contamination by oil and petroleum products, and pose a hazard to life. there are over 43,000 chemical contaminated sites in canada and usa, with 2,200 of them classified as high risk. in the us, over $10 billion are spent annually on the cleanup of contaminated sites. the primary objective of this study w...

In recent years, one of the primary issues noted worldwide in environment is contamination crude oil soil. comparison to traditional methods, bioremediation offers a potential alternative for removing hydrocarbon pollution from environment. This review paper gives an overview benefits, mechanism, and operation aerobic composting remediation soil contaminated with oil. Within this study, it was ...

In this study, nineteen different Streptomyces strains were isolated from oil-contaminated surface soil at Ataş Oil Terminal in Turkey. Biodegradation and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism tests (RFLP) used for selecting isolates. The isolates belonging to the genus confirmed by 16S rDNA analysis. 1592r, 1492r, 800r, 518f, 27f primers chosen gene amplifying sequencing. Then 93-unit chara...