A systematic survey for thermophilic fermentative bacteria and archaea in high temperature petroleum reservoirs

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-58

  Grassia, Gino S ^a   McLean, Keith M ^b   Glénat, Philippé ^a,d   Bauld, John ^c   Sheehy, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Petroleum reservoir; Thermoanaerobacter; Thermoanaerobacterium; Thermococcus; Thermophilic fermenter; Thermotogales

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTERIUM; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOTOGALES;

BACTERIA; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR;

EID: 0030434210     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6496(96)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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