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The oil and gas industry seeks to reduce the costs of oil and gas production and to minimise the risks of the operation, i.e. to have a high degree of safety for the personnel and protection of the environment. This imposes considerable demands on corrosion inhibition technologies and chemical management. The oil industry has traditionally used cultivation-based methods for microbiological surveillance of oil production facilities to monitor microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) risk (Sooknah et al., 2007). However, studies show that it is only possible to cultivate less than 10% of all viable microorganisms and that the population characteristics in a sample may change during the cultivation steps (Maxwell et al., 2004). Therefore, it is obvious that alternative methods are needed that can detect all the microorganisms related to MIC in a sample independent of the cultivation method.
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Laboratory experiments and field monitoring were sponsored by DUC Partners (A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Shell and Chevron).
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Holmkvist, L., Thomsen, U.S., Larsen, J., Jensen, M., Skovhus, T.L. (2010). Problems Caused by Microbes and Treatment Strategies: Monitoring Microbial Responses to Biocides; Bioassays – A Concept to Test the Effect of Biocides on both Archaea and Bacteria in Oilfield Systems. In: Whitby, C., Skovhus, T. (eds) Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oilfield Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9252-6_14
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