Metagenomic Analysis of Biocide-Treated Neotropical Oil Reservoir Water Unveils Microdiversity of Thermophile Tepidiphilus.

ABSTRACT: Microorganisms are capable of colonizing extreme environments like deep biosphere and oil reservoirs. The prokaryotes diversity in exploited oil reservoirs is composed of indigenous microbial communities and artificially introduced microbes. In the present work, high throughput sequencing techniques were applied to analyze the microbial community from the injected and produced water in a neotropical hyper-thermophile oil reservoir located in the Orinoquia region of Colombia, South America. Tepidiphilus is the dominant bacteria found in both injection and produced waters. The produced water has a higher microbial richness and exhibits a Tepidiphilus microdiversity. The reservoir injected water is recycled and treated with the biocides glutaraldehyde and tetrakis-hydroxymethyl-

SUBMITTER: Bedoya K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8591294 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature