Engineering360: "Using microbes to clean produced water"

Having studied extremeophiles most of my career and done research for gas industry on corrosion and produced water for 30 years I am very interested in these research efforts. We found that some extremeophiles e.g., halophiles were much better able to function under other extreme conditions. Is the aim of this research to remove the most common unwanted materials e.g., hydrocarbons, H2S etc is most produced waters OR designing specific communities of microbes to fit different produced waters with different compositions. Hope to see more information/data from these research efforts.

Daniel H. Pope, Ph.D.