Distribution of thermophilic marine sulfate reducers in north sea oil field waters and oil reservoirs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1793-1798

  Nilsen, Roald Kåre ^a   Beeder, Janiche ^a   Thorstenson, Tore ^b   Torsvik, Terje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OIL INDUSTRY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEOGLOBUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOTOMACULUM; THERMODESULFORHABDUS;

EID: 0029974630     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1793-1798.1996     Document Type: Article

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