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Book SynopsisThe chemistry of wax formation, agglomeration and deposition in crude oils.- Challenges during production, storage and transportation of waxy and heavy crude oils due to organic deposition.- Renewable and eco-friendly biosurfactants for potential applications in enhanced oil recovery: current state and future perspectives.- Microbial oxidation mechanism and their application to inhibit and degrade petroleum hydrocarbons depositions in an environment friendly aspect.- Selectively isolated biodegradable bacteria for deprivation of organic deposits in oil and gas industries.- Potential ecological paraffin and wax degrading bacterial strains and their characterizations.- Isolated recyclable environmental friendly surfactants for potential degradation of waxes and paraffins in oil and gas industries.- Applications of recyclable environmental friendly fungi in the degradation of paraffin, waxes and asphaltenes in oil and gas industries.- Use of environmentally-safe microalgae for the degradation of organic deposit in crude oil pipelines and equipments.- Mitigation and degradation of organic deposit in crude oil pipelines and equipments by aerobic and anaerobic microorganism in an environmental friendly and ecological manner.- Organic deposits in oil and gas industries as significant flow assurance problem and their enzyme-assisted eco friendly biodegradation.- Advanced environmental nanotechnology for the degradation waxes, asphaltenes and paraffins in oil and gas industries.- Application of non-pathogenic fungi in enhanced oil recovery.- Production impact due deposition of hydrocarbons in oil and gas industries.- The relation of different operating, climatic and chemical parameters with organic deposition in pipelines and equipments in oil and gas industries and their impact on the environment.