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AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 / SEG Previous HitGeophysicalNext Hit References Series No. 11, Chapter 19: Case Histories of Microbial Prospection for Oil and Gas, Onshore and Offshore in Northwest Europe, by Manfred Wagner, Martin Wagner, Joachim Piske, and Robert Smit, Pages 453 - 479
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AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 / SEG Previous HitGeophysicalTop References Series No. 11: Surface Exploration Case Histories: Applications of Geochemistry, Magnetics, and Remote Sensing, Edited by Dietmar Schumacher and Leonard A. LeSchack
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.

Chapter 19
Case Histories of Microbial Prospection for Oil and Gas, Onshore and Offshore in Northwest Europe

Manfred Wagner
MicroPro GmbH
Gommern, Germany

Martin Wagner
MicroPro GmbH
Gommern, Germany

Joachim Piske
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Gommern, Germany

Robert Smit
VEBA Oil Nederland B.V.
The Hague, Netherlands

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This paper presents the Microbial Prospection for Oil and Gas (MPOG) method, which uses microbiological techniques to explore for oil and gas. These techniques are based on the principle that light hydrocarbons from oil and gas fields escape to the earth's surface, and this increased hydrocarbon supply above the fields creates conditions favorable for the development of highly specialized bacterial populations that feed on the hydrocarbons. This leads to significant increases in the microbial cell numbers and cell activity of these specialized microbes.

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