BIT´s 3rd Annual World Congress of Petromicrobiology (WCP 2012)

Key Topics

• MEOR Technology in Heavy Oil
• Petroleum and Oilfield Microbial Metagenomics
• Microbial Induced Corrosion and Reservoir Souring
• Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Petroleum Industrial Biotechnology
• Bioremediation for Hydrocarbon Contaminated
• Basic Petroleum Microbiology

Who should Attend

• Petroleum Engineers, Chemists
• Petroleum, Environment and Geo- Microbiologists
• Project and Petroleum Engineers
• Scientific and Managerial Disciplines
• Employees Responsible for Environmental Issues or Marketing Of Microbial Based Products
• Technical and Commercial Managers, Those Responsible For Product Development or Evaluation And Field Operating Personnel Using Microbials
• Members of Oil and Gas Service Companies Aiming To Reduce Souring and Corrosion Using Biotechnologies
• Technical Professionals and Managers Responsible For Late Life Oil and Gas Production in Mature Fields Using Microbes
• Oilfield Biotechnologists
• Members Looking For Novel Technologies To Extend The Economic Life Of Ageing Assets and/or Develop Heavy Oil And Oil Sand Resources in the Long Term
• Health, Safety, and Environment Team Members Involved in Bioremediations
• Exploration Team Members Using Microbiology
• Project Managers & Engineers for Tertiary Oil Recovery Using Biomaterials
• Oil Field R&D Team Leaders Engaged in Petroleum Biotechnology
• Those Staff of Service Companies Providing Corrosion Bio-Inhibitors and Overall Corrosion Services Using Biocides
• Specialist Functions in the Oil Industry Including Inspection, Material Selection, and Corrosion Control by Microorganisms
• Regulators, Government Agencies and Process Plant Contractors Involved with Oil and Gas Production
• Executives from Companies or Manufacturers Marketing Materials, Coatings With Biofilms and Equipment for Cathodic Protection, Inspection (NDT) and Corrosion Monitoring
• Post-Doc Working on Geomicrobiology or Petroleum Microbiology
• Senior Undergraduate and Graduate Students
• For those whose research interests in the following areas:
• Professionals Working On Extremophilic Microbes from Oil & Gas Reservoirs
• Functional Metagenomics to Capture The Soil Resistome;
• Petroleum Microbial Ecology and Evolution;
• Strain Genome, Pangenome and Metagenome
• Microbial Population and Environmental Genomics
• Biogeochemistry
• Petroleum Microbial Genomic and Metagenomic Metadata
• Systems Ecology of Petroleum Microorganisms
• Microbial Ocean Metagenomics
• Petroleum Microbial Diversity-Novel Techniques;
• Petroleum Metagenomes and Metaspecies
• Novel Metabolic Traits and Pathways or Geomicrobials;
• Genome Analyses of Uncultivated Microorganisms of Oil & Gas Reservoirs;
• Enzymes and Compounds from The Petroleum Microbes to Biotechnological Applications
• Comparative and Functional Genomics of Oil Field Microbes;
• Microbial Population and Environmental Genomics;
• Constraints and Conceptual Needs of Environmental Microbiology
• Multiple Organisms Interacting with Each Other and Their Environment;
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for Petroleum Microbiology
• Population/ Community and Environmental Microbiology
• Ecological Microbiology,
• R & D on Industrial Microbial Based Products for Oil Fields
• Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
• In Situ to In Silico; Microbial Community and Interactions within Reservoir or in Surface Soils
• Ontologies and the Description Of Habitat and Geolocation
• Deep-Ocean Reservoir Microbiology
• Implications of Important Microbiota from Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil Options
• Metabolic Characterization of Reservoir Microbials
• Gene Identification from Short Gene Fragments in Metagenome and Their Use in Biogeochemical Studies
• Genomic and Genetic Insight into the Reservoirs
• Host-Associated Petroleum Microbes;
• Applications of Biofule Technologies for Solving Petroleum Engineering Problems
• Oil Field Surface Microbiota Function and Manipulation
• Single Molecule Analyses of DNA in Environmental Microbes
• Discovery of Novel Enzymes Efficient for Hydrocarbon Degradations
• International Petroleum Metagenome Sequencing Project
• New Sequencing Technologies in Petroleum Microbes
• Molecular and Bacterial Community Function
• Metabolic Products from Petroleum Microbes to Their Implications of Human Health
• Biopolymer Development for Petroleum Industries
• Enzyme and Protein Engineering for Novel Catalysts Using on Oil Fields
• Other Biological Agents replacing Oil Field Chemicals
• Biosurfactant Development for Petroleum Industries
• Petroleum Microbial Monitoring and QC/QA
• Process Development of Biomaterials For Oil Recovery, Production and Bio-refinery
• Petroleum Microbial Enhanced Recovery Data Analysis
• Oil Field Sour Control Using Biotechnology
• Bioremediation for Environment Protection and Troubleshooting Process
• Petroleum Wasting Control
• Standardization Of Petroleum Microbial Based Products
• Related Systems/Solutions
• Regulations On Using Petroleum Microbes