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Yapiyev V, Ongdas N, Pinkerneil S, Samarkhanov K, Kabdeshev A, Karakulov Y, Muzdybaev M, Atalikhova A, Stefan C, Sagin J, Fustic M. The exploratory dataset of isotopic composition of different water sources across Kazakhstan. Data Brief 2024; 54:110360. [PMID: 38590614 PMCID: PMC10999508 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Revised: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
Abstract
This work presents the dataset of stable water isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen measured in water samples from different sources (precipitation, surface water, groundwater, tap water) across Kazakhstan from 2017 to 2018 and from 2020 to 2023. The dataset includes results on isotopic composition of 399 water samples, namely precipitation: event-based (n = 108), cumulative monthly (n = 22); surface water: lakes, reservoirs, brooks, rivers, channels (n = 175), groundwater: shallow and artesian groundwater, spring (n = 85), tapwater (n = 9). For each sample name of the source, location, latitude, longitude and date of sampling, measurement uncertainty (one standard deviation) are available. The samples were assessed by plotting the data in dual δ18O vs. δ2H isotope space with reference to values found in the published literature and fitting a linear regression equation for Astana (event) precipitation. Overall, this is the first dataset covering wide range of sources across Kazakhstan, which could be used by global and regional water resource assessments and studies such as tracing water sources, hydrograph separation and end-member analyses, isotope mass balance, evapotranspiration partitioning, residence time analysis and groundwater recharge.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vadim Yapiyev
- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
- School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
- The Environment & Resource Efficiency Cluster (EREC), Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
- Research Group INOWAS, Department of Hydro Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
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- International Science Complex Astana, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 8, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan
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- Research Group INOWAS, Department of Hydro Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Kazakh-British Technical University, Tole Bi Street 59, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008, MI, United States
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- School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
- University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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de Rezende JR, Oldenburg TBP, Korin T, Richardson WDL, Fustic M, Aitken CM, Bowler BFJ, Sherry A, Grigoryan A, Voordouw G, Larter SR, Head IM, Hubert CRJ. Anaerobic microbial communities and their potential for bioenergy production in heavily biodegraded petroleum reservoirs. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:3049-3065. [PMID: 32216020 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Most of the oil in low temperature, non-uplifted reservoirs is biodegraded due to millions of years of microbial activity, including via methanogenesis from crude oil. To evaluate stimulating additional methanogenesis in already heavily biodegraded oil reservoirs, oil sands samples were amended with nutrients and electron acceptors, but oil sands bitumen was the only organic substrate. Methane production was monitored for over 3000 days. Methanogenesis was observed in duplicate microcosms that were unamended, amended with sulfate or that were initially oxic, however methanogenesis was not observed in nitrate-amended controls. The highest rate of methane production was 0.15 μmol CH4 g-1 oil d-1 , orders of magnitude lower than other reports of methanogenesis from lighter crude oils. Methanogenic Archaea and several potential syntrophic bacterial partners were detected following the incubations. GC-MS and FTICR-MS revealed no significant bitumen alteration for any specific compound or compound class, suggesting that the very slow methanogenesis observed was coupled to bitumen biodegradation in an unspecific manner. After 3000 days, methanogenic communities were amended with benzoate resulting in methanogenesis rates that were 110-fold greater. This suggests that oil-to-methane conversion is limited by the recalcitrant nature of oil sands bitumen, not the microbial communities resident in heavy oil reservoirs.
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- Júlia R de Rezende
- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.,The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- PRG, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- PRG, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4.,School of Mining and Geoscience, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan City, Kazakhstan
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- PRG, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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Hubert CRJ, Oldenburg TBP, Fustic M, Gray ND, Larter SR, Penn K, Rowan AK, Seshadri R, Sherry A, Swainsbury R, Voordouw G, Voordouw JK, Head IM. Massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria in formation waters from a Canadian oil sands reservoir containing severely biodegraded oil. Environ Microbiol 2011; 14:387-404. [PMID: 21824242 PMCID: PMC3490369 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02521.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The subsurface microbiology of an Athabasca oil sands reservoir in western Canada containing severely biodegraded oil was investigated by combining 16S rRNA gene- and polar lipid-based analyses of reservoir formation water with geochemical analyses of the crude oil and formation water. Biomass was filtered from formation water, DNA was extracted using two different methods, and 16S rRNA gene fragments were amplified with several different primer pairs prior to cloning and sequencing or community fingerprinting by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). Similar results were obtained irrespective of the DNA extraction method or primers used. Archaeal libraries were dominated by Methanomicrobiales (410 of 414 total sequences formed a dominant phylotype affiliated with a Methanoregula sp.), consistent with the proposed dominant role of CO(2) -reducing methanogens in crude oil biodegradation. In two bacterial 16S rRNA clone libraries generated with different primer pairs, > 99% and 100% of the sequences were affiliated with Epsilonproteobacteria (n = 382 and 72 total clones respectively). This massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria sequences was again obtained in a third library (99% of sequences; n = 96 clones) using a third universal bacterial primer pair (inosine-341f and 1492r). Sequencing of bands from DGGE profiles and intact polar lipid analyses were in accordance with the bacterial clone library results. Epsilonproteobacterial OTUs were affiliated with Sulfuricurvum, Arcobacter and Sulfurospirillum spp. detected in other oil field habitats. The dominant organism revealed by the bacterial libraries (87% of all sequences) is a close relative of Sulfuricurvum kujiense - an organism capable of oxidizing reduced sulfur compounds in crude oil. Geochemical analysis of organic extracts from bitumen at different reservoir depths down to the oil water transition zone of these oil sands indicated active biodegradation of dibenzothiophenes, and stable sulfur isotope ratios for elemental sulfur and sulfate in formation waters were indicative of anaerobic oxidation of sulfur compounds. Microbial desulfurization of crude oil may be an important metabolism for Epsilonproteobacteria indigenous to oil reservoirs with elevated sulfur content and may explain their prevalence in formation waters from highly biodegraded petroleum systems.
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- Casey R J Hubert
- School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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Oldenburg TBP, Larter SR, Adams JJ, Clements M, Hubert C, Rowan AK, Brown A, Head IM, Grigoriyan AA, Voordouw G, Fustic M. Methods for recovery of microorganisms and intact microbial polar lipids from oil-water mixtures: laboratory experiments and natural well-head fluids. Anal Chem 2009; 81:4130-6. [PMID: 19382773 DOI: 10.1021/ac8025515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Most of the world's remaining petroleum resource has been altered by in-reservoir biodegradation which adversely impacts oil quality and production, ultimately making heavy oil. Analysis of the microorganisms in produced reservoir fluid samples is a route to characterization of subsurface biomes and a better understanding of the resident and living microorganisms in petroleum reservoirs. The major challenges of sample contamination with surface biota, low abundances of microorganisms in subsurface samples, and viscous emulsions produced from biodegraded heavy oil reservoirs are addressed here in a new analytical method for intact polar lipids (IPL) as taxonomic indicators in petroleum reservoirs. We have evaluated the extent to which microbial cells are removed from the free water phase during reservoir fluid phase separation by analysis of model reservoir fluids spiked with microbial cells and have used the resultant methodologies to analyze natural well-head fluids from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). Analysis of intact polar membrane lipids of microorganisms using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) techniques revealed that more than half of the total number of microorganisms can be recovered from oil-water mixtures. A newly developed oil/water separator allowed for filtering of large volumes of water quickly while in the field, which reduced the chances of contamination and alterations to the composition of the subsurface microbial community after sample collection. This method makes the analysis of IPLs (or indirectly microorganisms) from well-head fluids collected in remote field settings possible and reliable. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that IPLs have been detected in well-head oil-water mixtures.
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- Thomas B P Oldenburg
- Petroleum Reservoir Group, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.
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