The understanding of the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic capabilities, ecological roles, and community dynamics taking place in oil reservoir microbial communities is far from complete. The interest in studying microbial diversity and metabolism in petroleum reservoirs lies mainly but not only on providing a better comprehension of biodegradation of crude oils, since it represents a worldwide...

Crude oil fouling of the equipment surfaces is a troublesome issue which leads to operating difficulties, economic penalties, increased environmental impacts, and health and safety hazards in petroleum industry. With a rough estimation, a minimum cost of equal to 4 million barrels of oil/year is required to be invested to offset the costs of crude oil fouling in Pre-heat Trains of Iranian oil r...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain SJTD-1 can utilize long-chain alkanes, diesel oil, and crude oil as sole carbon sources. We report the draft genome sequence of strain SJTD-1 (6,074,058 bp, with a GC content of 66.83%) and major findings from its annotation, which could provide insights into its petroleum biodegradation mechanism.

Pseudomonas taeanensis MS-3(T), isolated from a crude oil-contaminated seashore in South Korea, is capable of degrading petroleum oils, such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain, which consists of 5,477,045 bp, with a G+C content of 60.72%.

Gas chromatographic prediction of poly-aromatics retention indices in a petroleum crude oil based on matching with reported retention indices on the same stationary phases under a similar temperature program was studied. The bases of the matching with reported retention indices for peaks identifications were mentioned. Deconvulated software was used to separate the overlapped poly-aromatic peaks.

Fractionation of crude petroleum ether extract of the leaves of Chenopodium album Linn lead to the isolation of β-sitosterol (1), lupeol (2) and 3 hydroxy nonadecyl henicosanoate (3). Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods such as UV, IR, NMR and LCMS. Compound 2 and 3 were isolated for the first time from this plant.

According to International Energy Outlook 2007 the total world demand of energy is projected to increase through 2030 about 95% for the non-OECD region and 24% for OECD nations. Crude oil is one of the most critical energy commodities while with coal and natural gas are projected to provide roughly the 86% share of the total US primary energy supply in 2030. In this paper, we use wavelet neural...

Introduction Petroleum Generation and Migration from Source Rocks Organic Geochemical Analysis . . Sampling Techniques Sample Preparation Analytical Procedure Organic Carbon Content . . . Page Page 3 Benzene Extractable Organic 3 Matter 5 Activated Alumina Column 4 Chromatography 5 4 Results of Analyses 7 4 Comparison of Extracted Material to 5 Crude Oil 10