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Hydrocarbon-degrading microbial product

A microbial product for use in bioremediation of hydrocarbon contamination in soil, water and petroleum waste. The company’s records cover its technical development, its industrial production, and its use on remediation projects.

A sealed pail of IEBCO’s microbial product, with the product label facing the camera.
The product container, from the company archive.

پودر میکروبی تجزیه‌کننده آلودگی‌های نفتی

This product’s trade name is not set in type on this page: its official written form is not yet confirmed, so the product is introduced by description until it is.

What the product is

It is built on microorganisms that degrade petroleum hydrocarbons. It is applied as part of a designed bioremediation process, not as a standalone additive dropped onto a site.

How the product performs, and how it should be applied, depends on the contaminant, the hydrocarbon concentration, the character of the soil or waste, and the conditions on site — and has to be assessed per project. No performance figure on this page is offered as a guarantee of result.

Application areas

Where it is applied

The areas the company’s documentation records for this product.

  • Petroleum-contaminated soil

  • Oily sludge

  • Oil-based drilling mud waste

  • Oily wastewater

  • Aerobic bioremediation processes

  • Biopile and landfarming, as part of the project design

Biological material tipped from an excavator bucket onto excavated waste, beside stacked jumbo bags.
Material supplied and applied on site — Samawah, Iraq project.

How it is applied

The method is set per project. Dose, preparation and the order of the stages follow from the site assessment and the sampling results; they are part of the process design rather than a general instruction sheet.

  • Method chosen after site assessment and sampling
  • Applied inside the project’s process design, with periodic monitoring
  • Application protocol supplied during technical review of the project

Field trial

Alongside the executed projects, the product has been applied in a field trial on marked-out, cordoned plots. The photographs below show how those plots were laid out on site.

Two adjacent soil plots prepared on the ground of the trial site.
Two adjacent plots, prepared on the ground of the trial site.
A trial bed cordoned with hazard tape, its two halves visibly different in colour.
The trial bed, cordoned with hazard tape on site.

The protocol for this trial and its measured results are not yet approved for publication, so no figure from it appears on this page. Nor is either plot labelled as the control or the treated one: the available documentation does not record which was which.

Recorded use on projects

Use on projects

The records in which use or production of this product is documented.

  • 2019

    Completed

    Drilling waste bioremediation — Samawah, Iraq

    Client:
    Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Co., Ltd (Iraqi Branch)
    Case study

  • 1394

    Contract on record

    تجاری‌سازی و تولید صنعتی پودر میکروبی تجزیه‌کننده آلودگی نفتی

    Client:
    Iranian Oil Terminals Company

Technical information

The specification table, the composition and the packaging information are not published on this page. They will be released once they have been checked against the product’s current datasheet and cleared by the company.

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Technical review

Have the product assessed against your project

Send the waste type, the approximate volume and the site conditions, and we will assess whether the product and the method suit the job.

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