Use of homogeneously-sized carbon steel ball bearings to study microbially-influenced corrosion in oil field samples

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Voordouw, Gerrit ^a   Menon, Priyesh ^a   Pinnock, Tijan ^a   Sharma, Mohita ^a   Shen, Yin ^a   Venturelli, Amanda ^a   Voordouw, Johanna ^a   Sexton, Aoife ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Oil Search Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acetogens; Beads; Carbon steel; Coupons; Methanogens; Microbially influenced corrosion; Sulfate reducing bacteria; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

CARBON STEEL; STEEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON STEEL BALL BEARING; CORROSION; CORROSION RATE; DISSOLUTION; GENERAL DEVICE; IRON DISSOLUTION; MICROBIALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION; MICROSCOPY; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; OIL FIELD; PARAMETERS; PH; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964354704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00351     Document Type: Article

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