Table 4.
Various studies report the effectiveness of Bioaugmentation and Biostimulation of Petroleum hydrocarbons.
| Contamination | Location | Technique applied | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light crude oil contaminating a sandy beech | Marine oil wastes at sand beach, Delaware, USA | Bioaugmentation and biostimulation | (Venosa et al., 1996) |
| 2 | Crude oil and heavy fuel oil | Sea Empress oil spill, UK | Biostimulation | (Swannell et al., 1999) |
| 3 | Heavy crude oil | Japan | Bioaugmentation | (Tsutsumi et al., 2000) |
| 4 | Crude oil degradation | The Grande Terre, Kerguelen islands | Biostimulation | (Delille et al., 2002) |
| 5 | Petroleum Hydrocarbons | Crude oil spill site in Liaohe Oilfield, Liaoning Province, China. | Bioaugmentation | (Xu and Lu, 2010) |
| 6 | heavy crude oil/total petroleum hydrocarbons | Xingang port of Dalian City in China | Bioaugmentation | (Cai et al., 2016) |
| 7 | Crude oil | the hyper-arid region in Israel | Biostimulation and Bioaugmentation | (Banet et al., 2021) |