25th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry IMOG 2011

P-180
Inhibition of anaerobic oil degradation by low molecular weight
hydrocarbons
Angela Sherry, Russell Grant, Carolyn Aitken, Martin Jones, Neil Gray, Ian Head
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Long lag phases of several months before
hydrocarbon degradation becomes measurable in
laboratory experiments under anaerobic,
methanogenic conditions, have been noted previously
(e.g. Townsend et al., 2003; Jones et al., 2008).
Some reports of a lag phase in methane production
after the addition of hydrocarbons to methanogenic
enrichment cultures suggest that light end n-alkanes
(