Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs

By D. Jones, I. Head, N. Gray, J. J. Adams, A. K. Rowan, C. Aitken, B. Bennett, Haiping Huang, A. Brown, B. Bowler and 3 more. Nature, 2008

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A review of prokaryotic populations and processes in sub-seafloor sediments, including biosphere:geosphere interactions (2014, background): “This situation provides the potential for stimulation of hydrocarbon degradation via sulphate reduction (Stetter et al., 1993; Rueter et al., 1994), in addition to methanogenesis in deep oil reservoirs (Jones et al., 2008) and sediments (Newberry et al., 2004).”
Microbial Degradation of Alkanes (2012, background): “Because of presence of microbial communities mainly dominated by anaerobes, the oil reserves are referred as ‘geo bioreactors’, in which fermentative, syntrophic, suthdogenic and methanogens are responsible for removal of alkanes from the saturated hydrocarbon fraction (Jones et al. 2008; Wang et al”
Microbial syntrophy: interaction for the common good. (2013, background): “Other studies from hydrocarbon impacted environments have also suggested that syntrophic acetate oxidation occurs during methanogenic hydrocarbon degradation (Jones et al., 2008; Gray et al., 2011; Westerholm et al., 2011).”
Anaerobic biodegradation of crude oil under sulphate-reducing conditions leads to only modest enrichment of recognized sulphate-reducing taxa (2013, result): “Methane production was low in sulphate-reducing, oil-degrading microcosms in comparison to a parallel study of methanogenic oildegrading microcosms, the findings of which have previously been published (Jones et al., 2008; Gray et al., 2010, 2011).”