Fertilized Microbes Unlock Clean Energy From Crude ; Researchers Tap Methane Gas From Old Oil Fields
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › December 15, 2007
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WASHINGTON A vast new energy supply in hard-to-tap older oil fields may be generated simply by feeding fertilizer to some deep- dwelling, gas-making microbes, new research suggests.
Canadian and English researchers were able to convert oil into usable methane in small glass tubes during two years of lab research, instead of a process that takes tens of thousands of years underground. The next step is to do it in real oil fields.See the full content of this document
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Fertilized Microbes Unlock Clean Energy From Crude ; Researchers Tap Methane Gas From Old Oil Fields
The new method takes advantage of the natural process that occurs when mi...
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