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Posted AT 1:06 PM EDT on 12/12/07

Busy bacteria may improve heavy oil yield

SHAWN MCCARTHY

Globe and Mail Update

Scientists at the University of Calgary have developed a way of fertilizing the bacteria that exist in heavy oil reservoirs in order to improve recovery of hard-to-develop energy. In the laboratory, the Calgary researchers accelerated the natural process of biodegradation of crude oil to form methane, the basic component of natural gas.

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