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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 79, 期 16, 页码 5059-5068出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01251-13
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- NSERC Industrial Research Chair Award
- BP America Production Co.
- Baker Hughes Canada
- Computer Modeling Group Limited
- ConocoPhillips Company
- Dow Microbial Control
- Enerplus Corporation
- Intertek Commercial Microbiology
- Oil Search (PNG) Limited
- Shell Global Solutions International
- Suncor Energy Inc.
- Yara Norje AS
- Alberta Innovates-Energy and Environment Solutions
- Genome Canada
- Genome Alberta
- Government of Alberta
- Genome BC
Oil production by water injection can cause souring in which sulfate in the injection water is reduced to sulfide by resident sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). Sulfate (2 mM) in medium injected at a rate of 1 pore volume per day into upflow bioreactors containing residual heavy oil from the Medicine Hat Glauconitic C field was nearly completely reduced to sulfide, and this was associated with the generation of 3 to 4 mM acetate. Inclusion of 4 mM nitrate inhibited souring for 60 days, after which complete sulfate reduction and associated acetate production were once again observed. Sulfate reduction was permanently inhibited when 100 mM nitrate was injected by the nitrite formed under these conditions. Pulsed injection of 4 or 100 mM nitrate inhibited sulfate reduction temporarily. Sulfate reduction resumed once nitrate injection was stopped and was associated with the production of acetate in all cases. The stoichiometry of acetate formation (3 to 4 mM formed per 2 mM sulfate reduced) is consistent with a mechanism in which oil alkanes and water are metabolized to acetate and hydrogen by fermentative and syntrophic bacteria (K. Zengler et al., Nature 401:266-269, 1999), with the hydrogen being used by SRB to reduce sulfate to sulfide. In support of this model, microbial community analyses by pyrosequencing indicated SRB of the genus Desulfovibrio, which use hydrogen but not acetate as an electron donor for sulfate reduction, to be a major community component. The model explains the high concentrations of acetate that are sometimes found in waters produced from water-injected oil fields.
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