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NABDA (c)2009 ENC 1 National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) (Federal Ministry of Science and Technology) 16, Dunukofia Street (Old CAC Building), Area 11, Garki Abuja Presenter: PROF. B. O. SOLOMON DIRECTOR-GENERAL (NABDA) Venue : NICON LUXURY HOTEL ABUJA APRIL 1-3, 2009 State and Application of Bioremediation in Nigeria’s Oil Fields

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  National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA)

(Federal Ministry of Science and Technology)16, Dunukofia Street (Old CAC Building), Area 11, Garki

Abuja

Presenter: PROF. B. O. SOLOMON

DIRECTOR-GENERAL (NABDA)

Venue : NICON LUXURY HOTEL ABUJA APRIL 1-3, 2009

State and Application of Bioremediation in Nigeria’s Oil Fields

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Outline:

IntroductionBioremediationEfforts at Bioremediation ApplicationState of Bioremediation TechnologyLab-Scale OperationsField-Scale OperationsIndigenous bioremediation products for:

– Drill Cuttings Management– Produce Water Management– Flare Pit Waste Mnagement– Soil Hydrocarbon Pollution Management– Way forward

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Introduction

Human economic activities have always given rise to need for further activities to ameliorate the resulting adverse effects on the environment.

This dimension suggests that man has not completely been unaware of environmental impacts of the quest for human survival, which draws energy and nutrients from the earth.

The angle that has remained unsatisfactorily addressed is the choice of mitigation technology that can return mother earth to status quo ante or guarantee continuous availability of directly utilized resources or associated support systems.

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Technology choice has particularly been difficult for two recalcitrant and continuous threats: municipal waste, nutrient and hydrocarbon contamination.

Incidentally, the former is a huge raw material for further economic growth while the later has presented itself as a true threat to human and environmental survival.

This leaves us with one true class of enemy: nutrient and hydrocarbon contamination.

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Nutrient and Hydrocarbon Contamination.

A number of approaches have successfully been deployed at industrial level with reckonable degree of achievement in controlling nutrient contamination and the most remarkable of them have been biological-technique enhanced treatments.

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However, the same cannot be said of bioremediation, especially in Nigeria.

Considering the magnitude of threat from environmental degradation and the resultant socio-economic dimension of hydrocarbon contamination in the Niger Delta area, the present administration has identified the security of the region as a national priority.

This means all increased efforts at cleaning up the spills using sustainable technologies of which bioremediation is most suitable.

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Previous methods designed to deal with waste by-products from oil fields include:

• storage• landfill• relocation• incineration

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Typical flare pit in the Niger Delta

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Hydrocarbon polluted farmlands in Ogoniland

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Flow station at Ogbogu contaminated with hydrocarbon

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BIOREMDIATION: INTRO

• Decontamination of environmental media by naturally occurring biological agents in the environment is often slow. However, it goes on.

• The implication is that at pollution levels below the carrying capacity of the media concerned, restoration to best known conditions for life support is possible over long time.

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• It is the optimization of this natural restoration power of biological agents that bioremediation seeks to optimize in the face of overwhelming contamination.

• The technology seeks to catalyze natural decontamination process by stimulating the remedial activity of these organisms.

BIOREMDIATION

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Our responsibility is thus to contribute to the success of stabilizing the Niger Delta through restoration of the environmental media to human usable forms.

To achieve this task, various technologies must be identified and optimized for efficiency. At the moment, the most economic and sustainable technology is bioremediation.

BIOREMDIATION

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Bioremediation is a multidisciplinary technology that decomposes contaminants transforming them into harmless byproducts, i.e. water and carbon dioxide, using the following products:

• microbes

• surfactants

• micronutrients and

• bio-stimulants

Bioremediation in Nigeria

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Bioremediation in Nigeria Bioremediation

• Economical • Sustainable

Suitable for• cleaning up oil spills after emergency

response • soils contaminated with

petroleum/hydrocarbons derivatives • dangerous organic compounds.

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Biostimulation involves– aeration – application of selected micronutrients and bio-

stimulants. Bio-stimulation is only effective when

– indigenous microbial populations present in the substrate are high enough to degrade the contaminants

– when these microbes can readily adapt to foreign contaminants.

Bioaugmentation involves – application of beneficial microbes that have an

affinity towards a specific contaminant.

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Some contaminant suitable for bioremediation

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Environmental conditions affecting

bioremediation

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All bioremediation methods could be ex-situ (1) (outside point of occurrence) or in-situ (2) (at the point of occurrence)

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Bioremediation Benefits

- Degradation in a relatively narrow time - Simultaneous multiple activity- Toxin resistant- Reduced risk / higher degree of safety- Reduced labor and equipment costs

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Engineering

ChemistryBiology

Bioremediation technology

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– Without intervention, microbes degrade oil but at a rather slow rate. Enhancing this process is the essence of research in bioremediation.

– Some of the process optimization strategies in bioremediation include the following:

• Control of physical and chemical parameter example Temperature, pH, moisture and oxygen content.

• Control of microbial parameters

Bioremediation process optimization

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Bioremediation process optimization parameters

Process optimization

Physico-chemical Factors

•Temperature

•pH

•Water

•O2 / Redox potential

•Mass transfer

•Solubility

Microbial Parameters

•Genetic characteristics

•Physiological properties

•Metabolic diversity

•Enzymological capabilities

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Review of bioremediation efforts in Nigeria

Unfortunately, very few successful efforts have been documented for field-scale bioremediation projects, but many lab-scale research work have been carried out.

At lab-scale, the methods adopted include:• Simulation of field contamination• Bio-augmentation (indigenous and engineered

microbes)• Bio-stimulation (agricultural fertiliser)• Tilling

Some of the results obtained are presented below:

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S/N Physico-Chemical Parameters Range (%)

1. Moisture Drop 19-13

2. Organic CarbonDrop

85-1.5

3. Ph Drop 6.34-4.5

4. Nitrogen Increase 0.021-0.081

5. Duration of bioremediation 8weeks

6. Total Hydrocarbon Reduction (THP) 73-88

Range of values for results obtained from lab-scale bioremediation research

Review of bioremediation efforts in Nigeria

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S/N Method(%) THC Reduction

1. Biostimulation, Bioaugmentation with indigenous HUB Tilling 83

2. mixing uncontaminated soil with polluted soil, tilling and Bioaugumentation with HUB

73

3. Biostimulation, Bioaugmentation with indigenous HUB 88

4. Biostimulation with tilling 86

5. No intervention (control) 2

Review of bioremediation efforts in Nigeria

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Pilot –scale bioremediation projects

Some measure of success has been achieved in large scale application of bioremediation. Very few attempts have been made though but the results have been particularly inspiring.

One of such attempts is the development and pilot scale deployment of an indigenous bio-formulation for the cleaning of the following forms of hydrocarbon contamination: Drilling mud Produced water Hydrocarbon contaminated sediment and soil Hydrocarbon contaminated water

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Current Practices of hydrocarbon waste management

Drilling Mud and Produced Water

On-shore: • dumped in temporary or permanent pits which

eventually overflows into adjoining land and water.

Off-shore: • deposited into the surrounding waters where it

also causes pollution.

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Untreated Drill Mud on soil

Drill mud is acidic and is dangerous to the environment if dumped without treatment

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Untreated Produced water

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Untreated Produced water

Produced water does not support life due to high COD and BOD values from contamination

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Current situation....

There is hardly any further remediation of sediments and water systems following emergency response to a reported spill.

This situation results in:• Exertion of undue pressure on the attenuation

potential of resident microbes• Death of resident microbes, flora and fauna due to

acidity from contaminants• Loss in water and soil quality

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Indigenous products in bioremediation

Research has been intense lately in Nigerian universities and research centres for the development of products capable of remedying hydrocarbon contamination.

Some indigenous products have been able to handle the following operations:

• Clean-up of oil polluted soil.• Clean-up of oil on water.• Conversion of oil sludge into organic fertilizer.• Treatment of oil polluted soil samples from a flow station tank to a form that

supports healthy plant growth.• Treatment of a produce wastewater pit Bio-treatment of samples of toxic

drilling mud to a non-toxic form that supported healthy plant growth.

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Indigenous bioremediation products

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Bio-remediated Drill cuttings

• Drill Mud Cutting from oil site treated with indigenous bioremediation product can support the growth of plants.

• The mud can also be reused for construction and other purposes

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Pilot Scale Treatment of a flare pit in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria Using a locally

formulated product

• Some of these products have undergone complete field trials under several standards including DPR, American, Canadian and Australian and have also been patented for full scale deployment.

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The results from treatment of waste pits using indigenous products are quite encouraging.

The implication is that the government will begin to enforce local content in personnel and product quota for the decontamination soil and water after emergency response.

• Distinct plant and animal growth in treated produced water in a waste pit in Niger Delta

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Parameters 

Untreated Drilling Mud mg/kg

Treated mg/kg

DPRa1 mg/kg

DPRa2

mg/kg

Duration (days) After 21 days

pH 9.10 7.00 6.5-8.5 6.5 - 8.5

Cadmium (Cd) mg/ kg 1.37 0.26 0.8 12

Cupper (Cu) mg/ kg 6.8 1.4 36 190

Lead (Pb) mg/ kg 3.24 0.88 85 530

Zinc (Zn) mg/ kg78.22

39.96 140 720

Total TPH %

51.76

0.09

Results

• DPRa1 mg/kg - Target Value • DPRa2 mg/kg- Intervention Value

Drill cutting treatment with local product

Source: Otaiku, 2007

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Parameters

Untreated Waste Pit mg/kg

Treated mg/kg

DPRa1 mg/kg

DPRa2

mg/kgAustraliab

mg/kgCanadac

µg/kg

pH 6.56 6.80

Arsenic (As) mg/kg

<0.01

<0.01 29 55 20

Barium (Ba) mg/ kg 410 300 200 625

Cadmium (Cd) mg/ kg <0.01 2.87 0.8 12 1.5

Chromium (Cr) mg/ kg 3.0 0.31 100 380 80

Cupper (Cu) mg/ kg 4.0 1.94 36 190 65

Lead (Pb) mg/ kg 41.0 <0.01 85 530 50

Calcium (Ca) mg/ kg 1316 612.2

Zinc (Zn) mg/ kg

52.0

11.17 140 720 200

Results for some Waste Pit (Surface water) treatment using indigenous products

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Total Iron(Fe) mg/ kg 14.0 604.7

Sulphate (SO4²)mg/ kg 100 1

Nitrate N03- mg/ kg

<0.01

<0.01

Ammonia (NH4) mg/ kg 8.0 26.0

Phosphate (P2O5) mg/ kg

2358

18.7

Salinity as Chloride (Cl) mg/ kg

80.0

142

TPH mg/ kg

4,600

17.65 50 5000

PAH mg/ kg

0.311

<0.01 1 40 4000µg/kg

Total Organic Carbon (TOC) mg/kg

21,000 19,500

Sulphide (S2-),mg/kg 3.12 <0.01

Source: Otaiku, 2007

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Waste Pit (soil/sediment) treatment: indigenous product

Parameters 

Untreated Waste Pit mg/kg

Treated waste pitmg/kg

DPRa1 mg/kg

DPRa2

mg/kgAustraliab

mg/kgCanadac

µg/kg

pH6.56 6.80

Arsenic (As) mg/kg

<0.01

<0.01 29 55 20

Barium (Ba) mg/ kg 410 300 200 625

Cadmium (Cd) mg/ kg <0.01 2.87 0.8 12 1.5

Chromium (Cr) mg/ kg 3.0 0.31 100 380 80

Cupper (Cu) mg/ kg 4.0 1.94 36 190 65

Lead (Pb) mg/ kg 41.0 <0.01 85 530 50

Calcium (Ca) mg/ kg 1316 612.2

Zinc (Zn) mg/ kg

52.0

11.17 140 720 200

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Total Iron(Fe) mg/ kg 14.0 100.4 112.6 604.7

Sulphate (SO4²)mg/ kg 100 1920 300 1

Nitrate N03- mg/ kg

<0.01

243.0

13.8

<0.01

Ammonia (NH4) mg/ kg 8.0 16.3 28.0 26.0

Phosphate (P2O5) mg/ kg

2358

2318

52.0

18.7

Salinity as Chloride (Cl) mg/ kg

80.0

47.5

1,720

142

TPH mg/ kg

4,600

67.9

0.50

17.65 50 5000

PAH mg/ kg

0.311

<0.010.02

<0.01 1 40 4000µg/kg

Total Organic Carbon (TOC) mg/kg

21,000 N/A60.0

19,500

Sulphide (S2-),mg/kg 3.12 N/A <0.1 <0.01

• DPRa1 mg/kg - Target Value • DPRa2 mg/kg- Intervention Value

Source: Otaiku, 2007

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Way forward...

In order to drive the necessary development in bioremediation technology, it is essential to have a supportive legislation.

The results presented here are very few of the many efforts that have gone into both development of new and establishment of existing facts about the potency of bioremediation processes at TPH and PAH degradation.

It is also important to support local development of products through incentives and patents for commercial production.

A starting point is the development of a bioremediation programme for Nigeria, using established indigenous products.

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