Centromere - publications
This list of publications is arranged in the following sections: Oilfield Microbiology, Environmental Impact of Produced Water Discharge, Environmental Microbiology and Microbiological Waste Water Treatment
Oilfield Microbiology
Allison, P.W., Sahar, R.N.R.R., Guan, O.H., Hain, T.S, Vance, I & Thompson, M.J.
The Investigation of Microbial Activity in an Offshore Oil Production Pipeline Sytsem and the Development of Strategies to Manage the Potential for Microbially Influenced Corrosion.
Paper 08651, Corrosion 2008
Dunsmore, B., Youldon, J., Thrasher, D.R. & Vance, I.
Effects of Nitrate Treatment on a Mixed Species, Oil Field Microbial Biofilm
J. Ind. Microbiol Biotechnol; 33 (6) pp 454-462, 2006
Vance, I. & Thrasher, D.R.
Reservoir Souring: Mechanisms and Prevention
Oilfield Microbiology, Edited by B. Ollivier and M. Magot. American Society for Microbiology, Washington D.C., pp 123-143, 2005.
Burger, E.D., Vance, I, Gammack, G.F. & Duncan, S.E.
Control of Microbial-Generated Hydrogen Sulfide in Produced Waters
Fifth International Conference on Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery and Related Biotechnology for Solving Environmental Problems, 1995. Conference Proceedings, pp 339-352
Brink, D.E., Vance, I. & White, D.C.
Detection of Desulfobacter in Oil Field Environments by Non-Radioactive DNA Probes.
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology 42, pp 469-475,1994
Luo, J.S., Angell,P ., White, D. C. & Vance, I.
MIC of Mild Steel in Oilfield Produced Water
Paper 265, Corrosion '94
Vance, I. & Brink, D.
Propionate-Driven Sulphate-Reduction by Oil Field Bacteria in a Pressurised Porous Rock Bioreactor
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology 40, pp 920-925, 1994.
Stetter, K.O., Huber, R., Blochl, E., Kurr, M., Eden, R.D., Fielder, M., Cash, H. & Vance, I.
Hyperthermophilic archaea are thriving in deep North Sea and Alaskan oil reservoirs.
Nature, London, 365, pp 743-745,1993.
Luo, J.S., Champaignolle, X., White, D. C. & Vance, I.
Corrosion of Mild Steel by Thermophilic Anaerobes
Paper 301, Corrosion '93, 1993.
Shennan, J.L. & Vance, I.
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery.
Microbial Problems in the Offshore Oil Industry, Eds; E.C. Hill, J.L. Shennan & R.J. Watkinson. Institute of Petroleum, London, 1987, pp 73-91.
Vance, I. & Richmond, B.G.
An Improved Sampling Technique for Bacterial Cultures Under High Hydrostatic Pressure.
J. Micro. Methods. 4, pp 37-43, 1985.
Vance, I. & Hunt, R.J.
Technical Note; Modification of a French Press for the Incubation of Bacteria at Elevated Pressures and Temperatures.
J. appl. Bact. 58, pp 525-528, 1985.
Levi, J.D., Regnier, A.P., Vance, I. & Smith, A.D.
MEOR Strategy and Screening Methods for Anaerobic Oil Mobilizing Bacteria.
Microbes and Oil Recovery, International Bioresources Journal, pp 336-344, 1985.
Environmental Impact of Produced Water Discharge
Zilverentant, A.,van Nieuwkerk, A., Vance, I., Watlow, A. & Rees,M.
Pilot-Scale Membrane bioreactor treats produced water
World Oil, August 2009, pp 79-82
Murray-Smith, R., Gore, D.J., Flynn, S.A., Vance, I. & Stagg. R.
Development and Appraisal of a Particle Tracking Model for the Dispersion of Produced Water Discharged from an Oil Production Platform in the North Sea.
Produced Water 2: Environmental Issues and Mitigation Techniques. Edited by M.Reed & S. Johnsen, Plenum Press, New York, 1996 pp 225-245
Flynn, S.A., Butler, E.J., Vance, I.
Produced Water Composition, Toxicity and Fate. A Review of Recent BP North Sea Studies.
Produced Water 2: Environmental Issues and Mitigation Techniques. Edited by M.Reed & S. Johnsen, Plenum Press, New York, 1996 pp 69-79
Stagg, R.M Gore, D.J., Whale, G.F., Kirby, M.F., Blackburn, M., Bifield, S., Macintosh, A.D., Vance, I, Flynn, S.A. & Foster, A.
Field Evaluation of Toxic Effects and Dispersion of Produced Water Discharges from North Sea Oil Platforms
Produced Water 2: Environmental Issues and Mitigation Techniques. Edited by M.Reed & S. Johnsen, Plenum Press, New York, 1996 pp 81-100
Environmental Microbiology
Vance, I., Stanley, S.O. & Brown. C.M.
The Loch Eil Project: Cellulose Degrading Bacteria in Sediments of Loch Eil and the Lynn of Lorne.
J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 56, pp 267-278, 1982.
Stanley, S.O., Leftley, J.W., Lightfoot, A., Robertson, N., Stanley, I.M. & Vance, I.
The Loch Eil Project: Sediment Chemistry, Sedimentation and the Chemistry of the Overlying Water in Loch Eil.
J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 55, pp 299-313, 1981.
Vance, I., Blayden, S.L. & Tampion, J.
Cellulose Degradation and Carboxymethylcellulase Production by Sporocytophaga myxococcoides Grown in an Air Lift Fermenter.
Biotechnology Letters, 3, pp 45-48, 1981.
Vance, I., Topham, C.M., Blayden, S. & Tampion, J.
Extracellular Cellulase Production by Sporocytophaga myxococcoides.
J. Gen. Microbiol. 117, pp 235-241, 1980.
Vance, I., Stanley, S.O. & Brown, C.M.
A Microscopical Investigation of the Bacterial Degradation of Wood Pulp in a Simulated Marine Environment.
J. Gen. Microbiol. 114, pp 69 74, 1979.
Leftley, J.W. & Vance, I.
An Inflatable Anaerobic Glove Bag.
Society for Applied Microbiology Technical Series, 13, pp 51-57, 1979.
Microbiological Waste Water Treatment
Evans, M.R., Aldington, R.W.J., Smith, J.A., Vance, I. & Morgan, P.
Microbiology First - A Paradigm Shift for Biological Treatment of Industrial Waste Water in the 21st Century ?
Wastewater Treatment: Standards and Technologies to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century. Proceediings of the Joint CIWEM/Aqua EnviroTechnology Transfer Millennium Conference. Edited by N.Horan & M.Haigh, 2000 pp 653-666
Vance, I.
Breaking the Mould.
Industrial Environmental Management, May 1998 pp 23