Microbial Worlds Apart: Distinct Communities in Crude Oil and Production Waters
Alibrandi, A.; Plewka, J.; Vuillemin, A.; Bartholomaeus, A.; di Primio, R.; Probst, A. J.; Kallmeyer, J.
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Genomic analyses of microbial community composition are used to improve oil reservoir engineering and monitor reservoir dynamics. Given the challenges of extracting nucleic acids from oil, production water samples are often used as proxies from which to infer microbial community information from oil reservoirs. We employed 16S rRNA gene amplicon and metagenomic sequencing on samples of crude oil and production water from four North Sea oil fields. Taxonomic profiling revealed differences in microbial compositions and functions between production water and crude oil. Production water was more homogeneous, less diverse, harboured taxa associated with conditions non-native to the reservoir (e.g., seawater), and exhibited evidence of contact with atmospheric oxygen, most likely from passing through the water separators. Conversely, crude oil samples harboured microbial taxa typically associated with oil reservoirs. Despite long-term production and, in some cases, re-injection of production waters, the putative native microbial communities were still present in the oil. These findings demonstrate that crude oil samples are much more representative of oil reservoir microbiomes than their production water proxies.
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