Viruses Could Be the Key to Cleaning Up Oil and Gas Industry’s Wastewater
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Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Viruses Could Be the Key to Cleaning Up Oil and Gas Industry’s Wastewater April 30, 2024 University of Texas Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso UTEP have discovered a potential solution to the oil and gas industry’s wastewater problem using an unlikely ally : viruses . In a recent publication , doctoral candidate Ramón Antonio Sà nchez and his collaborators detail how bacteriophages , viruses that are highly specific and lethal to a single species of bacteria , can be used to treat produced water on an industrial scale rapidly and . cost-effectively Targeting Problematic Bacteria in Produced Water The research focuses on two of the most prominent bacteria found in produced
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