Petroleum: From Basic Features to Hydrocarbons Bioremediation in Oceans - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.2 No.11, November 2015

Open Access Library Journal

Volume 2, Issue 11 (November 2015)

ISSN Print: 2333-9705 ISSN Online: 2333-9721

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Petroleum: From Basic Features to Hydrocarbons Bioremediation in Oceans ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102136 1,747 Downloads 3,763 Views Citations

Author(s)

Edmo M. Rodrigues^*, Marcos R. Tótola^*

Affiliation(s)

Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Biodiversidade para o Meio Ambiente, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.

ABSTRACT

This review provides a general overview of petroleum characteristics and bioremediation strategies applications in oceanic environments contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons during exploration and transportation processes offshore. The vast oil reserves in the offshore fields have been explored for the production of light and heavy oil. The hydrocarbons exhibit very different physicochemical characteristics including those of hydrophobicity, molecular weight, melting and boiling points, toxicity and recalcitrance. This review is to highlight the basic oil characteristics, and to reveal the manner in which accidents can occur resulting in oil spills in the sea. We focus on hydrocarbon degradation through the application of bioremediation techniques, because this is considered more advantageous economically compared with the physical or chemical remediation techniques, as well as being more effective in contaminant removal. This study provides knowledge about strategies that can be applied in accidents involving oil spill on the ocean and thus boosts oil spill cleanup technology and lowers the environmental risks of offshore management of activities with petroleum.

KEYWORDS

Bioremediation, Biostimulation, Bioaugmentation, Hydrocarbon Degradation, Oil Spill

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Rodrigues, E. and Tótola, M. (2015) Petroleum: From Basic Features to Hydrocarbons Bioremediation in Oceans. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-17. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102136.

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