Role of Thermophilic Bacteria ( and ) on Crude Oil Degradation and Biocorrosion in Oil Reservoir Environment

Overview

Journal 3 Biotech

Publisher Springer

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2019 Feb 26

PMID 30800590

Citations 7

Authors

Punniyakotti Elumalai

Punniyakotti Parthipan

Jayaraman Narenkumar

Balakrishnan Anandakumar

Jagannathan Madhavan

Byung-Taek Oh

Aruliah Rajasekar

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Abstract

Thermophilic bacterial communities generate thick biofilm on carbon steel API 5LX and produce extracellular metabolic products to accelerate the corrosion process in oil reservoirs. In the present study, nine thermophilic biocorrosive bacterial strains belonging to and were isolated from the crude oil and produced water sample, and identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The biodegradation efficiency of hydrocarbons was found to be high in the presence of bacterial isolates MN6 (82%), IR4 (94%) and IR2 (87%). During the biodegradation process, induction of the catabolic enzymes such as alkane hydroxylase, alcohol dehydrogenase and lipase were also examined in these isolates. Among them, the highest activity of alkane hydroxylase (130 µmol mg protein) in IR4, alcohol dehydrogenase (70 µmol mg protein) in IR2, and higher lipase activity in IR4 (60 µmol mg protein) was observed. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction data showed that these isolates oxidize iron into ferrous/ferric oxides as the corrosion products on the carbon steel surface, whilst the crude oil hydrocarbon served as a sole carbon source for bacterial growth and development in such extreme environments.

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