Microbial Diversity and Community Shifts in a Petroleum Reservoir under Production: Effects of Water Breakthrough and Anthropogenic Alterations
Armando Alibrandi, Julia Plewka, Rolando di Primio, Alexander Bartholomäus, Aurèle Vuillemin, Alexander J. Probst, Jens Kallmeyer
The paper examines microbial diversity and community shifts in an oil reservoir under production, finding that water breakthrough alters community structure through sulfate-reducing bacteria rather than injected microbes.
Frontiers in Microbiology · Mar 19, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology