Para-Bac Drilling & Well Technology Kern River

Ignorance is...when it comes to understanding microbial technology

Kern River Field, California

I recently received the following questions from an oil and gas group member on LinkedIn about the use of Micro-Bac International, Inc . microbial product in oil wells:

1. What happens when Micro-Bac microbes start "eating" oil from the well they have were introduced by your company?

2. Also, what if Micro-Bac microbes get addapted to water in the well, leading to an environmental disaster?

Microbes, in general, do not stop eating when you want them to stop."

The response:

The microbes used in our Para-Bac product do not “eat” oil. They modify and shorten paraffin chains reducing the precipitable wax concentration. We have a separate line of products that is used in remediating environmental disasters like oil spills that is known as M-1000 .Please see a video of our work in the Amazon Rain Forest using M-1000 to clean up an oil spill.

The Para Bac product bacteria also produce metabolites that act as paraffin solvents and dispersants as well as biosurfactants that act as dispersants. The product bacteria grow fairly slowly in oil wells and this requires retreatment at periodic intervals in order to replenish the microbial population in the well. Numerous oil companies around the world have used our products for many years and was at one time a distributor of our products. Please see the case study of Para-Bac success in the Kern River Field: "Oilfield Applications of Microbial Technology: A Case History from the Kern River Field, California."

What sort of environmental disaster are you talking about? Something similar to the British Petroleum Deep Water Horizon one? Or the Chevron Texaco environmental disaster in Ecuador that recently awarded the indigenous people of Ecuador 8.6 billion dollars? Our environmentally safe products have been used for over 20 years in oil wells all over the world and are currently in use in hundreds of oil wells in the United States.  As stated, they are not “eating oil” so your question is a bit disingenuous and misleading.