Biotechnology and supporting companies

Use of biotechnology in the oil industry is almost unknown. As a whole, only a few initiatives related to use of biofiltration for gas treatment has reached refining operations. In the exploration and production segment of the oil industry, MEOR has been known and employed to a certain extent in secondary or tertiary recovery of oil. 

At present, the advances in the techniques, methods and tools employed by biotechnologists make early sophisticated equipment and protocols to be routinely used now. Expertise and specialized support can be obtained via subcontracting with companies that have newly emerged during the last decade. 

The Health Sector (Food, Agriculture, and Pharmacy industries) has received the greatest impact of biotechnologies both, social and economical. Therefore, the chemical applications of biology to this sector have deeply contributed to that consolidation, leading the development of biotechnologies to a mature state. A list of biotechnological companies, exclusively associated to the Food and Pharmacy industries is included in Table 1. Those companies are not analyzed in this book and are only included for completeness purposes and to prevent the oil reader of useless search. 

3rd Millennium. Ceregene Human Genome Sciences. Prolinx 

454 Corp. Cereon Genomics. Hybridon Proneuron Biotechnologies. 

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