**Meet the editors**

Vladimir G. Kutcherov graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow) as a petroleum engineer in 1977. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Energy Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), and a Professor at the Department of Physics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow). His main

research interests deal with the problem of the origin of hydrocarbons and oil and gas deposits accumulation. Prof. Kutcherov and his international collaborators have published a set of papers in PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Review of Geophysics, where the possibility of abiogenic synthesis of complex hydrocarbon systems was convincingly demonstrated.

Dr. Anton Kolesnikov was born on September 16th,1983, in Moscow, Russia, where he still lives. He is happily married, and a father of two daughters. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, MSAFCT, Moscow, Russia, and a Ph.D. in Energy Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Kolesnikov is a senior researcher of the "Investigations of hydrocarbon systems in wide range of thermo-

baric conditions" laboratory, a senior teacher at the Physics department, and a lecturer of the "Philosophy and methodology of Science" at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Moscow, Russia. His research interests consist of hydrocarbons, high pressure research, theories of petroleum formation, Passivhaus concept, permaculture, philosophy and psychology of consciousness.

Contents

Chapter 1 **Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons** 

Vladimir G. Kutcherov

**and Oil and Gas Deposits Formation 1** 

Chapter 2 **Thermogenic Methane with Secondary Alteration** 

**in Soil – Implications for Bioremediation 43**  Snežana Maletić, Božo Dalmacija and Srđan Rončević

Arezoo Dadrasnia, N. Shahsavari and C. U. Emenike

Daniela M. Pampanin and Magne O. Sydnes

**of** *Aspergillus niger* **Producing Manganese** 

**Peroxidase of** *Phanerochaete chrysosporium* **119**  Diana V. Cortés-Espinosa and Ángel E. Absalón

**Diversity of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites 137** 

*in situ* **Petroleum Hydrocarbon Bioremediation 161** 

Lirong Cheng, Lin Jiang, Dan Zhang and Xiaohui Zhao

Chapter 9 **Microbial Techniques for Hydrocarbon Exploration 195** 

Chapter 6 **Phenanthrene Removal from Soil by a Strain** 

Aizhong Ding, Yujiao Sun, Junfeng Dou,

M.A. Rasheed, D.J. Patil and A.M. Dayal

Chapter 7 **Characterizing Microbial Activity and** 

Chapter 8 **Extracellular Electron Transfer in** 

Kerstin E. Scherr

**Presence and Influence in the Aquatic Environment 83** 

Ryoichi Nakada and Yoshio Takahashi

Chapter 3 **Petroleum Hydrocarbon Biodegradability** 

Chapter 4 **Remediation of Contaminated Sites 65** 

Chapter 5 **Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons a Constituent of Petroleum:** 

**in Gases Released from Terrestrial Mud Volcanoes 29** 

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**Chapter 1** 

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**Figure 1.** A scheme of genesys of hydrocarbons and petroleum deposits formation.

**Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons** 

The theory of the abiogenic deep origin of hydrocarbons recognizes that the petroleum is a primordial material of deep origin [*Kutcherov, Krayushkin 2010*]. This theory explains that hydrocarbon compounds generate in the asthenosphere of the Earth and migrate through the deep faults into the crust of the Earth. There they form oil and gas deposits in any kind of rock in any kind of the structural position (Fig. 1). Thus the accumulation of oil and gas is

**and Oil and Gas Deposits Formation** 

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Vladimir G. Kutcherov

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/51549

**1. Introduction** 
