Our planet is made of different environments viz. from the Arctic to the Antarctic and Deserts of Gulf, Sahara to Australia, Rainforests of Central and South America, western and central Africa, western India, Southeast Asia, the island of New Guinea and Australia, where different forms of LIFE can be found. It is not necessary that all LIFE or ORGANISM can survive in diverse environments, but, instead, they in habit specific environments according to their biotic along living.

Millions of years ago, algae and plants lived in shallow seas. After dying and sinking to the seafloor, the organic material mixed with other sediments and got buried and under high pressure along with high temperature the remains of these organisms transformed into we know today as fossil fuels.

The Coal, Natural gas, and Petroleum are all Fossil fuels are these form of energy today we are dependent. Petroleum is found in vast underground reservoirs where ancient seas were located. Petroleum reservoirs can be found beneath land or the ocean floor. Their crude oil is extracted with giant drilling machines so we call today as OIL RIG.

Oil Spillage – Great Worry for the humankind and for the nature.

Anthropogenic forces, such as petroleum spills and the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, have caused an accumulation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the environment.

Oil spills are more common than you might think, and they happen in many different ways. There are thousands of oil spills occur in USA, Gulf Coast waters each year. Most of these spills are small, for example when oil spills while refueling a ship. But these spills can still cause damage, especially if they happen in sensitive environments, like beaches, mangroves, and wetlands.

The Large oil spills are like dangerous disasters. These happen mainly when pipelines break down or any Oil tanker ships break/sink. Even some time in drilling operations due to technical or mechanical fault it may go wrong. The consequences is harmful to our ecosystems.

Cleans up an oil spill & how?

The newer and Innovative way of introducing biocatalysts is to improve the bioremediation process. This is possible due to newer enzymatic techniques. The Enzymatic remediation is a valuable alternative as it can be easier to work with than whole organisms, especially in extreme environments. Furthermore, the use of free enzymes avoids the release of GMO Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in the environment.

Enzymes and Oil Spill Remediation Process

Petroleum is a heterogeneous mixture of hydrocarbons, This contain Aliphatic (n-alkanes), Alicyclic, and Aromatic groups. These hydrocarbons are organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen, which are highly insoluble in water. Microorganisms can either degrade produce hydrocarbons in the presence of certain metabolic pathway to specific function.

At Geocon Products we are introducing microorganisms in combination with bacteria, cyanobacteria, green algae, and fungi and they are capable of degrading different components of petroleum under different environmental conditions (e.g., aerobic and anaerobic conditions at desired pH level)

Petroleum degradation occurs by sequential metabolism of its compounds. Bioremediation of hydrocarbons of anaerobic or aerobic conditions under aerobic conditions,.

The oxygenase enzymes introduce oxygen atoms into hydrocarbons

The anaerobic degradation is catalyzed by anaerobic bacteria such as sulphate-reducing bacteria, using different terminal electron acceptors.