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Making gas out of crude oil

12-12-2007 · EurekAlert!

An international team of researchers reports in Nature on how crude oil in deposits around the world are naturally broken down by bacteria, resulting in methane production. The discovery could yield dramatic improvements in how fossil fuels are recovered and processed.

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