Ongoing Projects

Oilzapper: Turning Oil Pollution into Opportunity

June 1, 1993

Oil spills and oily sludge have long posed serious environmental and operational challenges for the oil and gas industry. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, initiated a programme on Petroleum Biotechnology in 1992, under which several research projects were sanctioned. As part of a DBT-funded project, TERI commenced work in 1993 on the selection of indigenous microbial strains for the bioremediation of oil spills.