Taxon has invested years of work developing a battery of proprietary genomics, bioinformatics and cultivation-based tools to understand how microbial communities function in oil and gas reservoirs.  This multi-pronged approach includes first creating a comprehensive census, or profile, of the resident microbes in a target reservoir and creating a carbon-flow model depicting how the microbial community is functionally organized and how the various microbes participate in the resident biogeochemical processes.  A strategic plan can then be assembled to modulate the processes that take place in the subsurface.

Just as in individual people, every subsurface oil and gas reservoir is unique.  Each reservoir has unique geology, geochemistry and microbiology characteristics.  No single solution (microbes or nutrients to stimulate endogenous microbes) will work best, if at all, in all reservoirs.  The most effective and efficient answer is to develop ‘Personalized’ solutions that are optimized to work in a target environment.  Taxon does this in a manner analogous to how personalized medicine is developed and applied in healthcare.

A Rational Approach.  Taxon utilizes the full bandwidth of information it collects to develop optimized nutrients for the resident microbes in a target reservoir.  These nutrient formulations are also designed with the reservoir type and local geochemistry in mind.  Taxon also develops customized sets of microbes, termed synthetic consortia, which are optimized to perform specific biochemical transformations in the subsurface (“in situ”) where oil and gas accumulations exist.  This combination of optimized nutrients and synthetic consortia can lead to increased process transformation rates that cannot be achieved through guesswork or trial-and-error approaches.

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