[HTML][HTML] Underground gas storage as a promising natural methane bioreactor and reservoir?

A Molíková, M Vítězová, T Vítěz, I Buriánková… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Employing deep reservoirs as UGS (underground gas storage) has a long history across
continents. In 2018, 689 underground gas reservoirs with a total volume of 417 bcm were in …

Syntrophic biodegradation of hydrocarbon contaminants

LM Gieg, SJ Fowler, C Berdugo-Clavijo - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Syntrophic processes are required for hydrocarbon mineralization to CH
4.•Syntrophic hydrocarbon metabolism can occur in the presence of electron acceptors.•SIP …

Emissions from oil sands tailings ponds: Review of tailings pond parameters and emission estimates

CC Small, S Cho, Z Hashisho, AC Ulrich - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The storage of large volumes of tailings has become an issue for Canada׳ s oil sands
industry. The use of diluent, along with incomplete bitumen and solvent recovery from the …

Quantification of methane sources in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta by aircraft mass balance

S Baray, A Darlington, M Gordon… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Aircraft-based measurements of methane (CH 4) and other air pollutants in the Athabasca
Oil Sands Region (AOSR) were made during a summer intensive field campaign between …

Survival and energy producing strategies of alkane degraders under extreme conditions and their biotechnological potential

C Park, W Park - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Many petroleum-polluted areas are considered as extreme environments because of co-
occurrence of low and high temperatures, high salt, and acidic and anaerobic conditions …

Stimulation of Smithella‐dominating propionate oxidation in a sediment enrichment by magnetite and carbon nanotubes

X Xia, J Zhang, T Song, Y Lu - Environmental microbiology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have shown that application of conductive materials including magnetite and
carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can promote the methanogenic decomposition of short‐chain fatty …

Spatial isolation and environmental factors drive distinct bacterial and archaeal communities in different types of petroleum reservoirs in China

P Gao, H Tian, Y Wang, Y Li, Y Li, J Xie, B Zeng… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
To investigate the spatial distribution of microbial communities and their drivers in petroleum
reservoir environments, we performed pyrosequencing of microbial partial 16S rRNA …

Methane emissions from an oil sands tailings pond: a quantitative comparison of fluxes derived by different methods

Y You, RM Staebler, SG Moussa, J Beck… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Tailings ponds in the Alberta oil sands region are significant sources of fugitive emissions of
methane to the atmosphere, but detailed knowledge on spatial and temporal variabilities is …

Well-to-wheels greenhouse gas emissions of Canadian oil sands products: implications for US petroleum fuels

H Cai, AR Brandt, S Yeh, JG Englander… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations affecting US transportation fuels require holistic
examination of the life-cycle emissions of US petroleum feedstocks. With an expanded …

Inhibitory effects of ammonia on syntrophic propionate oxidation in anaerobic digester sludge

C Zhang, Q Yuan, Y Lu - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Syntrophic propionate oxidation (SPO) coupled with methanogenesis is often inhibited
under high ammonium concentrations in anaerobic digesters. However, the inhibitory …