| Bioremediation is a biodiversity-friendly process that cleans up harmful chemical effluents through the use of natural microbes that live in soil and groundwater. With the right man-made conditions, these microbes digest harmful chemicals completely and convert them into water and harmless gases.
The advantage of the bioremediation process is that it uses natural processes to clean up polluted water at operational sites. Through its joint-venture partner, the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), PETRONAS is involved in the GNPOC Bioremediation Project in Sudan, currently the largest project of its kind in the world.
The project covers a 600-hectare area surrounding our operations within the Muglad Basin and manages successfully up to 361,000 barrels of produced water per day. |