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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00731
Keywords
coal bed methane; aminicenantes; OP8; phycisphaerae; methane; hydraulic fracturing; metagenomics
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) through a Linkage Project [LP100200730]
- QGC- BC Group Business, Santos Ltd
- Total SA
- Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship [DP1093175]
- Australian Research Council [LP100200730] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Coal bed methane (CBM) is generated primarily through the microbial degradation of coal. Despite a limited understanding of the microorganisms responsible for this process, there is significant interest in developing methods to stimulate additional methane production from CBM wells. Physical techniques including hydraulic fracture stimulation are commonly applied to CBM wells, however the effects of specific additives contained in hydraulic fracture fluids on native CBM microbial communities are poorly understood. Here, metagenomic sequencing was applied to the formation waters of a hydraulically fractured and several non-fractured CBM production wells to determine the effect of this stimulation technique on the in-situ microbial community. The hydraulically fractured well was dominated by two microbial populations belonging to the class Phycisphaerae (within phylum Planctomycetes) and candidate phylum Aminicenantes. Populations from these phyla were absent or present at extremely low abundance in non-fractured CBM wells. Detailed metabolic reconstruction of near-complete genomes from these populations showed that their high relative abundance in the hydraulically fractured CBM well could be explained by the introduction of additional carbon sources, electron acceptors, and biocides contained in the hydraulic fracture fluid.
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