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From: winters@gumby.paradyne.com (John Winters)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: psuedo monous bacteria eating petrolium (oil)
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Date: 16 Dec 89 15:55:29 GMT
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I have heard that a strain of psuedomonous bacteria have been developed
that will eat up oil spills.  What if these were injected into an oil well?

What is the strain called?  What does the latin psuedomonous mean?
False what?  Do they require any gasses to live and are these gasses
present in oil wells?  When these bacteria decompose, what would they
turn into, back into oil? or gass?  Could we convert oil wells into
gas fields?

Anyone for a wildcat gas venture? :)