Microbial Bioinformatics in the Oil and Gas Industry

<p>This book brings together contributions from leading scientists academics and experts from the oil and gas industry to discuss microbial-related problems faced by the industry and how bioinformatics and an interdisciplinary scientific approach can address these challenges. <b>Microbial Bioinformatics in the Oil and Gas Industry: Applications to Reservoirs and Processes</b> presents the major industrial problems caused by microbes (e.g. souring biocorrosion) as well as the beneficial activities (e.g. biofuels bioremediation).</p><p>FEATURES</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Offers a detailed description of how bioinformatics has advanced our understanding of numerous issues in the oil and gas industry</li> <p> </p> <li>Covers cases from geographically diverse oil fields laboratories and research groups</li> <p> </p> <li>Contains fundamentals and applied information of relevance to the oil and gas sector</li> <p> </p> <li>Presents contributions from a team of international experts across industry and academia</li> </ul><p>With its cross-disciplinary approach this comprehensive book provides microbial ecologists molecular biologists operators engineers chemists and academics involved in the sector with an improved understanding of the significance of microbial bioinformatics applications in the oil and gas industry.</p>