Microbiological profile of crude oil in storage tanks

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-308

  Atagana, Harrison Ifeanyichukwu ^a  

^a DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PETROLEUM;

ACTINOMYCES; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; EFFLUENT; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MICROORGANISM; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OIL INDUSTRY; PENICILLIUM; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; STORAGE; TANK;

ACTINOMYCES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUNNINGHAMELLA; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

FUEL STORAGE; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS; OIL TANKS; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY; STORAGE TANKS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

CRUDE OIL; MICROBES; STORAGE TANKS-OIL;

EID: 0029666657     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00419748     Document Type: Article

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