Biological activity in the deep subsurface and the origin of heavy oil

By I. Head, D. Jones, S. Larter. Nature, 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

• Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil (2006, background): “Heavy oils, which result from the biodegradation of crude oil under anoxic conditions in situ in petroleum reservoirs, have a much lower content of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons and a higher proportion of the more polar chemicals, the resins and asphaltene”
• Microbial Degradation of Alkanes (2012, background): “It is well established that microbial activities associated with oil reservoirs led to the decrease of oil quality, making refining more costly and recovery more difficult (Head et al. 2003).”