Strain SW-Ap Immobilized by Microspheres to Degrade Marine Oil Spills

Isolation and characterization of crude-oil-dependent bacteria from the coast of Ghana using oxford nanopore sequencing

“…The survival of these species on crude oil, despite the fact that there has not been any major oil spills persistent along the coast of Ghana implies their capacity to degrade crude oil. Other works have reported the degradation of crude oil by the following species; Acinetobacter junii (46), Alcanivorax xenomutans [ 47 ], Pseudomonas aeruginosa [ 48 ], Acinetobacter haemolyticus [ 49 ] and Alkanivorax pacificus [ 50 ]. Interestingly, Escherichia coli was found to have survived on the crude oil as the sole carbon source in all 8 sampling sites during the experiment.…”